• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Take the political spectrum. Everyone except the far left fringe cares about immigration and secure borders.

    You don’t have to hate immigrants or be a racist to want your country’s borders safe and illegal immigration curbed.

    The left can keep ignoring this at their own peril.

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      11 days ago

      But Germany doesn’t actually have a problem with illegal immigration. Almost all immigrants in Germany are here legally.

      There are roughly 50.000 “Ausreisepflichtige” (Persons required to leave the country) out of a population of 84 Million. That number is roughly constant over the last 10 years. Doesn’t seem to be an issue worth discussing.

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      11 days ago

      You don’t have to hate immigrants or be a racist to want your country’s borders safe and illegal immigration curbed.

      That’s a fig leaf. I’m a 99.99% certain you’d be against making legal immigration requirements less demanding and legal immigration application procedures less lengthy and difficult. You’re against immigrants and you’re hiding behind the legality of strict immigration requirements imposed by the right to claim all you want is people to follow the (impossible if you’re not a Westerner) rules.