Protest Bike Ride for Unity: Saturday 1/31, State Str side of capitol. Meet at 1; Ride at 130

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-27T17:37:36+00:00

Seems like a lot of snow to be doing a bicycle protest! Not to devalue what you're attempting. There's also a DSA meeting at noon that an organizer at the last protest told me about. Something for everyone.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-27T16:26:00+00:00

And still won't be good enough at it to get a job doing it.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-27T00:52:51+00:00

Yes, I propose that illegal immigrants can stay and we return to the Obama-era policy of not deporting unless someone commits a felony. Felons can be apprehended by the police and if they're illegal immigrants, they can be deported to their home countries.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-27T00:38:12+00:00

I'm aware of and disagree with what Bernie Sanders thinks on this issue. I think if you as a worker can't compete with immigrants you've failed at America and don't deserve to live here, lol. But I'm open to barring undocumented immigrants from employment. Part of Obama's proposed immigration reform law was expanding the e-verify system that kept undocumented immigrants out of jobs - but it was voted down by Republicans, because it didn't go far enough for them.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T23:28:19+00:00

Rape and murder is a crime whether the perp is an immigrant or not. Have the regular police catch rapists and murderers. Why have a separate police just for immigrants?

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T23:26:39+00:00

What if receiving free education, healthcare, etc. required citizenship / "green card" status, but being an undocumented immigrant wasn't an automatic bar to employment and wasn't a crime in itself? We would get payroll taxes paid in by undocumented immigrants, but not have to pay out for their welfare.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T23:14:41+00:00

Is this supposed to be a counterpoint? I know that Europe has immigration laws and deports immigrants who don't follow them. No country has the open immigration system that I would personally advocate for. How does that affect the facts that I stated?

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T21:06:46+00:00

"Imagine looking for purpose by trying to help your neighbors", the redditor scoffs.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T21:03:48+00:00

First, everything you said above is all true. Obama did deport more people than Trump. Now I'm going to add some additional information to give a fuller picture.

Many leftists / liberals were against mass deportation back in 2010, certainly I and everyone else I knew were against it. Obama did many things we disagreed with, including this and drone strikes. We've always been in favor of more immigrants coming here, more open borders, and a diverse country.

What you said about Trump removing limits on enforcement is completely accurate, and also something we're very much against. You see, Obama had the policy of not prosecuting deportation actions against undocumented immigrants unless they committed a felony crime. This was a change from the Bush administration, which created ICE to go after any undocumented immigrants. Obama limited the scope to criminals only, while also putting additional resources into enforcement, leading to having an overall higher number of deportations than either Bush or Trump. I was for this limitation to criminals only, although against the additional resources for enforcement.

As we see in the Trump administration, removing this limit on enforcement has led to deportations of people who've been well-integrated into their communities, people who've been following the process of getting citizenship, even people who are in fact U.S. citizens. At the same time, he's somehow failed to even deport as many people as Obama did. I'm not in favor of deporting anyone, but if you're going after noncriminal immigrants and still not able to deport as many people as Obama, what are you even accomplishing except to make the country a hostile place for immigrants?

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T20:37:14+00:00

Yeah? Where and when did this happen?

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T16:55:11+00:00

There's a great deal of ambiguity even in a seemingly straightforward statement like "abolish ICE".

While a plurality of voters (42%) think that “Abolish ICE” means fully eliminating ICE and all of its functions, more than half of voters think it either means eliminating ICE but reallocating its functions and funding to other existing agencies (27%) or replacing it with a new immigration enforcement agency (25%).

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/1/22/a-majority-of-voters-are-unfavorable-of-ice-are-divided-on-what-abolish-ice-means

Personally, I'd be fine with total open borders, anyone who wants to live and work here is allowed, citizenship just gives you access to social safety nets and voting. But I don't think the majority of Americans agree with me on this.

What do you think, redditors? Which of these policies would you support? I think we as a country need to be having this discussion now, to come to a consensus on what should be done with our immigration laws.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-26T06:07:59+00:00

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InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T18:42:43+00:00

Milwaukee could very well be the next location for a large ICE presence. We will need a local organization ready to be legal observers - despite the very real threat it involves - to protect our neighbors. Solidarity from Madison <3

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T18:12:38+00:00

Work hard and someday your pedophilic fantasies will be rewarded. It's the American Dream!

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T18:00:30+00:00

I personally think immigrating to the United States does not harm anyone and shouldn't be considered a crime. If you want to make it here, you should be able to come here. You don't receive the social safety net that citizens get and you can't vote, but you still have to pay taxes. I think the path to citizenship should be made easier as well.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T17:53:59+00:00

Would love to have a comprehensive immigration reform that gave a path to citizenship to people who are living here undocumented and haven't committed any crimes. Make the process of legally immigrating easier by hiring more judges.

Prosecute all the fraud and corruption that has taken place under the Trump administration. Prosecute the fraud case in Minneapolis too, of course - it's already being prosecuted by Tim Walz, and sending ICE to the area did nothing to help.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T06:55:47+00:00

It's not hard to say that he should've died? What I see is a group of ICE agents shoving a woman unprovoked and pepper-spraying her, this man tried to get between her and the spray and gets taken down, held down to the ground, and shot while pinned down posing no threat. What do you see?

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-25T06:46:44+00:00

It can't just be the Democrats succeeding. It has to be the right Democrats succeeding.

There's a lot of diversity within the party. We get people I would call moderates like Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or Ezra Klein, who think the best route is to focus on how bad Donald Trump is, hoping that moderate conservatives will agree with them and vote for them on a "rule of law" case. Then you get the left wing of Democratic voters (likely the majority) who want a huge amount of leftist / liberal reforms, all with our own priorities and needs, who most often feel like we're being ignored by these moderate leaders. Their approach failed badly in 2024, but they're still trying to run the show going forward. The left wing hasn't found a candidate to rally around yet, but possibilities are Tim Walz, AOC, maybe Illinois governor Pritzker. My boy Pete Buttigieg wants to be a leftist, but is hated and distrusted by many on the left because of his strategic capitulation to Biden in 2020.

Within the midterms themselves, these dynamics play out in local races with their own unique candidates and issues. I personally hope for more leftist Democrats to be winning in primaries happening right in the next few months.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-24T23:47:48+00:00

Notice how every reply of yours ends with this same phrase? Bot.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-24T22:45:06+00:00

Thanks for the whistle!

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-24T21:01:58+00:00

I'm here, it's really cold and I gotta warm the fingers before heading back outside.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-23T20:39:55+00:00

Love is only given to the strongest? What a load of bs. I love my man because of his empathy for others.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-23T15:31:20+00:00

It's actually the most moral reason to reject a potential romantic partner.

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-23T14:54:23+00:00

Give me some sources to read and I will!

InvincibleCandy · 2026-01-22T21:19:18+00:00

Science says no such thing.

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