I am deeply tired of this ridiculous narrative. Who decided that only “the worst of the worst” should be deported? Citizenship doesn’t mean that non-citizens are evil. It means they are non-citizens.
Even in an issue as minor as the running of the classroom, I’m not allowed to have anybody in the classroom who hasn’t officially signed up for the course. Not because we suspect such students of being “the worst of the worst” but simply because they didn’t sign up. This is how it works for pretty much everything. Why shouldn’t it work the same for citizenship?
Why are we spending so much time discussing whether the deportees have criminal records or whether crossing the border illegally means breaking the law? None of this matters. The goal should be to preserve citizenship as a meaningful concept because it’s an important civilizational achievement. Many of the things that we value about our civilized existence become impossible without citizenship.
Let’s discuss concepts and not personalities. Let’s not drown in the individual and instead talk about the collective.
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