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what you characterize as "our" objection is transparent. why this is such a *problem* for you remains a mystery.
but who knows? maybe you are absolutely scrupulous about not violating any laws, so you never speed, never drive after a few too many, never allow your inspections to lapse or license to expire, never jay-walk or pee in a public place no matter the situation. because this respect for Law thing operates at the micro-level just as much as it does at the macro.
but unless you're that kind of scrupulous absolutely law-abiding person yourself, i don't buy the claim that "our" objection rests on "illegality."
because you could simply be trying to dodge the problematic outcomes of placing the rhetorical emphasis on the adjective illegal and refusing to think that the noun you use "immigrant" might not only be false as a label (given reverse migration rates at the formal level of these flows) but could maybe---just maybe--be generating problems that have nothing to do with opposing transnational labor flows because they involve an informal sector and everything to do with reactionary-to-racist nationalism.
but hey, you're all about the Law, right?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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