My rationale for wanting to deport illegal immigrants is that I don't want to be around them. ... Thus, if the people don't want them, there is the rationale. The reason the people don't want them doesn't have to be reasonable. My reason is that they lower wages, cause cultural upheavals and crime.
I expect the typical "high crime, drug dealers" talking points from StatesRights, which conveniently and ever so incorrectly assume that all illegal immigrants are guilty of these things (but then again, I wouldn't expect StatesRights to believe in the principle of innocence until proven guilt, anyway).
But you, you don't want to be
around them? I don't even want to know what you consider to be a "cultural upheaval", or why exactly this is a bad thing. They cause lower wages because they're taken advantage of by employers, not because of inherent problems with them personally. Crime rate disparities among different types of people is nothing new, either, and a horrible reason to take action for reasons that should be obvious. You could apply any of these reasons to another group of people and it would hold no water. The only reason this is any different is because of their 'illegal' status. So, yes, it is because they "broke the law" (and a very meaningless and unnecessarily beuarocratic one at that).
As for your remark that the justification doesn't have to be reasonable if enough people want it, wouldn't that be tyranny of the majority?
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