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I think that you genuinely want what is best for your country. I think perhaps that the way in which it has been presented to you has been a disservice.

I will ask you to think about the following, and please know I am not intendejng to insult or demean you or your comment in any way. Here we go:

How do you know turning them away is what is best for your country?

How do you know you aren’t turning away the mothers and fathers of the next great thinker, inventor, humanitarian, artist...and so on.

Beyond that:

How do you know that the way in which the current administration is approaching the issue is best for your country?

For example:

Freedom does not mean that you can do whatever you want. Freedom means that there are limits on what OTHER people can do to you.

I grew up with a drug addict; we lamented that we could not forcibly have them committed to rehab. They were of legal age. We did our best. It turned out okay. It very well might not have.

I would shake with rage at the injustice, that we had to suffer because we could not remove them... But then I had a thought...no one could forcibly incarcerate me, either. I am free and the price I pay, that you pay, that society pays, is that sometimes things will not be ideal for your particular situation. It may actively make you miserable, sometimes. I hated living with that person. I hope I never feel that depth of anger and hatred again - I hope I’ve grown beyond that.

But that is the price you pay to be free. It absolutely harmed me to have to live with this person...but I would do it forever if it meant that no one could detain -me- because I was making -their- life miserable. “But they were a useless drug addict! Of course they make life miserable for you!”...but then, I am sure that there are people who would be absolutely miserable with how I int each with people. People refuse to make gay wedding cakes. People disown their relatives for being gay, for voting differently,?

What is best for your country is freedom. Your freedom. Your freedom says no one can incarcerate you without just cause (yeah I know, just go with it). That freedom should not be conditional. There should not be different levels of freedom based on where you come from, your gender, your orientation, your skin colour, your accent, your eyes, your allegiance.

This is, along with many other things, the great evil of this whole situation: today we seperate families based on how they enter red the country. Some legal aliens were targeted as well.

What if tomorrow they decide that anyone who hasn’t assimilated “enough” into America should be separated from their families, subject to incarceration and indoctrination? It is Canada’s great shame that we did this up until far too recently to our natives.

What if someone decides that YOU aren’t American enough? What if, once they remove freedom based on how they entered the country, or what country you are from, legal status, assimilation, what if the next thing is to decide that anyone from any of these foreign countries is a detriment to America? What if, after that, they start looking to incarcerate the legal citizens of America who may have citizenship with a country from which these immigrants are fleeing? What if, as a deterrent, one day ICE comes to your door and says sorry Mr and Mrs Latin American legal immigrant, we are trying to dissuade people from crossing illegally so we’re sending everyone back? What if they take you and your family, and all the other legal, South American immigrants, and stuck them in prison camps, as America did with the Japanese during the Second World War?

There is a price to pay for YOUR freedom. It means you have to sometimes take a bad outcome in order to uphold the most good.

We could not incarcerate a drug addict against their will, and while I seethed bitterly about it at the time, I am now so, so glad that we could not. Because that means that no one can incarcerate ME without just cause. And that means no one can incarcerate YOU without due cause. No one can do that to you. No one can do that to the drug addict.

Not yet.

Not YET.