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>>fajmcc+(OP)
Make no mistake, the immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota are only a training ground for how to undermine civil rights for us all. Everyone is ok targeting te immigrant populations because they are "illegal" or live in a gray area of legality. But eventually these same tools will be used against us.

>>unstyl+s5
Then argue for democratically changing the law to make them unambiguously legal.

Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.

>>mosura+R6
Congress has been neutered and there's been efforts to ensure that it stays that way.

>>pstuar+j7
It isn’t new though. The whole reason it is such a mess now is it was equally deliberately ignored for decades.

>>mosura+L8
Obama was "Deporter in chief"

You are just wrong.

America didn't even really have borders for most of it's existence, as the very idea of a Nation wasn't really a thing until into the 1800s.

We had a purposely pourous border with Mexico until relatively recently.

How many mexican immigrants do you happen to think live in Minneapolis?

>>mrguyo+DL
While a pan-US national awareness is widely seen as emerging during the civil war the rest of what you are saying is disingenuous. Prior to that it was a selection of colonies etc. which very much had borders because skirmishes over taxation rights was a thing.

There was significantly more inter ethnic strife in the US pre WW2 than most people seem to appreciate, much of it relating to if encountered (by whatever means) people should be settled/assimilated/rejected. There were riots/protests of this type in major cities at least between the civil war and the 1930s, and state policy reflected this, such as with the Chinese exclusion act which would hardly have been possible without a border.