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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why shouldn't schools be required to report undocumented students?   I'm troubled by the implication that being undocumented is perfectly A-OK.  It isn't.

That attitude is why a lot of people went for Trump.  I didn't, but I understand why people did.[/quote]
Are your kids documented? Did Native Americans document your kids? Or did you have immigrants and their descendants document your kids?
I think the latter. In that case, why can't  Salvadorians living here document the undocumented kids?
I don't understand why people voted for Trump, glad you do, because you don't seem to understand a whole lot other things.
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This argument always makes me laugh. Did the Anglo-Saxons document the Norman invaders? Did the Marathas document the Mughals? Did the Gauls document the Romans?

All nations are "settler" nations if you go back far enough. Nation states have laws. Nation states exist only insofar as the laws are enforced.[/quote]

I don't really follow this logic. Do you support the slavery that took place? If not, are you advocating for the removal of slave descendants?[/quote]

Nope, of course not. My point is that if you consider a country's settler history to be justification for ignoring or decrying its immigration laws, then no country in the world has the moral grounds to enforce such laws. Not if you go back far enough.

In short, enforce the laws or scrap them -- but citing the violent history of conquest as a reason to ignore the laws only makes sense if you're opposed to immigration restriction for every country under the sun.[/quote]

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