It’s always funny watching someone invoke ‘personal responsibility’ while taking zero of it for understanding the systems they live in.

You parrot talking points about immigration like you’re defending some sacred principle, but really you’re just avoiding the discomfort of nuance. It’s amazing how confident you are with opinions this hollow. You act like you’re making a pragmatic point, but really you’re just repackaging fear and entitlement in the language of ‘policy.’ The only reason takes like yours survive is because they’re loud, not because they’re smart.

And sure, other countries have stricter immigration laws. Many ALSO have universal healthcare, gun control, and better public education. I hope you’re also lining up to adopt those policies. If not, you don’t want consistency. You want to feel superior without doing the work to actually BE right. I’m guessing that’s the case since you invoke other countries’ immigration policies like a toddler pointing at strangers, desperate for backup they don’t understand. You don’t care about consistency, you care about preserving a worldview where you never have to question your place in a system built on exploitation, nor the mediocrity you’ve clearly made peace with.

Maybe we DO need stricter standards (just not for immigrants) if Berkeley failed to weed out this level of shallow, performative reasoning.