Immigration has been the earliest human experience and the reason why our homo sapiens ancestors sprang forwards to colonize the world. If you consider that we've (the homo sapiens species) been on this planet for roughly 35o,ooo years and settled down in the Levant and Mesopotamia roughly 1o,ooo years ago, we've spent the majority of our existence as migrant populations moving along with our food source. So: Cut 'em some slack already! Your own nation was made from immigrants from Western Europe, too, if I am not mistaken...
Having said that, this thread is a perfect example of what a
leftist would call 'prejudiced'.
To begin with, the question whether the foreign criminals should be deported is in silent juxtaposition to native criminals who, even though they do commit crimes, have the right of nativity so there's no question of deporting them. Given in a slogan, foreign criminals should be ousted and the native criminals should stay because... blood and soil? If you wanted to be crack down on crime, then you should have argued about the restoration of penal colonies to ship all kinds of criminals there. But you only focus on migrants which brings me to my next point.
Both those who voted that foreign criminals should be deported no matter the severity of the crime and those who accept deportation only for the most serious crimes share a common assumption. Namely, that migrants somehow commit crimes in greater frequency than natives and that their crimes are more violent. Unfortunately, studies by the Cato Institute show that this is just prejudice. In fact migrants have been shown since 1911 to be the least probable group to commit crimes as a whole. Just a line of statistics for you, from 17,785 convictions for murder in 2016 only the 85 were migrants, legal and otherwise. That's 0.5 for the mathematically inclined. Read more
here.
Therefore, if the migrants are not the cause for crime, why are we talking whether they should be deported or not? The position of the first group, those who would agree with deportation on
any offense is telling. You'd deport someone for an overdue speeding ticket, for example? This is not only ridiculous, it's down right bigoted. And
who are those "foreigners" you want to deport so badly? Define them. Are they first generation immigrants, Americans with an immigrant background, illegal immigrants only?
Some glossary before you get smart with me again.
prejudice. : a negative attitude towards someone based on race or ethnicity rather than personal experience.
bigot. : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.