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@mindymayhem wrote “His scenario* was that an illegal immigrant who reports a crime should be deported. So if you cared so much about these people being “exploited” (by willingly coming here), how could you possibly condone them living in terror of reporting crime? The results would be not unlike this, if you ask me: http://bit.ly/obxJcJ *And I have to say (esp after you said having sex with a child is the worst thing a person can do), I can not BELIEVE your “tough. He shouldn’t have come here” response to an illegal immigrant having to choose to be deported to tell the cops that his daughter was raped!”

For me, this scenario is an appeal to emotion on one narrow symptom of the problem. In my opinion, the problem of an illegal immigrant being afraid of reporting a crime is a symptom of the greater harm caused by an inculcated system of servitude that is responsible for the symptom in the first place. The greater harm in this case is america’s seeming need, from the very day of it’s formation until now, to exploit cheap labor for the gain of the majority - whether that cheap labor be in the form of slaves, indentures servants, or illegal immigrants. The current system of fostering and perpetuating a 12 million strong and growing multiple-generational pool of cheap labor that does not have the benefits of citizenship is the greater harm than the one person potentially harmed in dan’s scenario.

My point is, if you follow the law and fix the problem causing the greater harm, you fix the problem outlined in the scenario, not just for one, but for millions.

It isn’t an easy fix. But fostering the status quo is the greater harm. The scenario is an appeal to emotion that serves no purpose other than to perpetuate, not fix, the problem.