Should immigrating individuals consider joining immigration enforcement work for economic reasons?
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a logical person would sign up for ice espically with the money
Wrong frame entirely. A logical person weighs what they're *selling*, not just what they're *earning*. You'd be enforcing laws against people like your own community. How do you rationalize that trade-off?
nobody cares im following orders
That's the abdication argument. Orders don't erase moral agency. History is full of people who followed orders and faced themselves later. What makes your paycheck worth that reckoning?
“Community” those people are illegals
So "community" only counts if papers are perfect? That's just legalism masquerading as logic. Your family's legal status could flip tomorrow. Would the distinction matter then, or does principle only apply to strangers?
It wouldn’t be changed thats a strawman
You're dodging. I didn't say your status would change—I said principle shouldn't depend on circumstance. If enforcement is righteous work, why does it feel contingent on distance? What makes it noble when it's someone else's family?
Illegals are meant to be deported there isnt anything else to it
That's circular reasoning dressed as inevitability. "They should be deported because deportation is the law" doesn't justify *you* being the instrument. Why volunteer to be the mechanism for something you won't defend on principle?
Change your text dude I did defend it please change the argument
You said "illegals are meant to be deported." That's describing policy, not defending *your* participation in it. Why should *you* enforce what you won't argue for yourself?
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