Legalization is simply good policy for the US, not only because we have no valid right to tell our citizens what they can and can not do to/put into their own bodies, but because the black market it’s created has led to the rise of crime in exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reason, as the first Prohibition ‘experiment’ did.
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Criminalizing something creates criminals. *
This is basic. And once we have an entire criminal class with no recourse to law enforcement in their business dealings, the rule of force will, by necessity, be the only rule that matters.
With that being said, trying to turn this into a discussion about how ‘Americans are racist because many do not have a high opinion of illegal immigrants’ is a dodge and a rabbit trail. Like so:
A pose of opposition to prejudice is spectacularly unconvincing if you can’t even differentiate between some US citizens and the US as a whole.You cannot say you are against prejudice if you, for instance, talk about how “the United States/Americans are [pejorative].” You can only claim that you’re against prejudice that targets your preferred group and at best, indifferent to (if not openly supportive of) prejudice that targets another group.
To say nothing of the fact that of course illegal immigrants aren’t “equal” to law abiding citizens, they’re here illegally and of course the demographics of illegal immigrants who’ll work menial labor are going to be substantially different from the rest of the population.