"If this isn’t stopped, it won’t just be immigrants who get targeted next." Can you please reread that sentence and take a moment to think about why it's a problem.
'Just immigrants'. Instead of what? Real people? Actual Americans? Why are they 'just'? Are they lesser humans? Do they not have rights? Yes, they do. And the USA used to be a place where those rights were protected and defended. Obviously, it is no longer that place. It's a much uglier, much more dangerous place. Arriving there was helped along by igoring language that allowed people from different places to be categorized as less than human. Words matter. I hope you'll think about that. Otherwise, thank you for your work.
It's just grammatically correct without any value added.
Right now, the deportation/mistreatment is being done "just" to immigrants, as in: "only to immigrants." However, this sets things up to be expanded beyond "just" immigrants, i.e., to where it can then also affect non-immigrants.
There's a reason why it's important for it to be framed like this. For many people, unfortunately, they do not care about marginalized/vulnerable groups. To them, it may very well be ok that immigrants are being treated this way. But if you frame it as a starting point that can eventually affect them, then that's a reason for them to care. Much like the "First they came" poem.
I'm a first-generation immigrant myself. The point here isn't to devalue immigrants, but to bring awareness that this is how fascist regimes always start. They pick some group that most people might not care much for to scapegoat/mistreat, then they expand it from there. Making that connection is very important.
"If this isn’t stopped, it won’t just be immigrants who get targeted next." Can you please reread that sentence and take a moment to think about why it's a problem.
'Just immigrants'. Instead of what? Real people? Actual Americans? Why are they 'just'? Are they lesser humans? Do they not have rights? Yes, they do. And the USA used to be a place where those rights were protected and defended. Obviously, it is no longer that place. It's a much uglier, much more dangerous place. Arriving there was helped along by igoring language that allowed people from different places to be categorized as less than human. Words matter. I hope you'll think about that. Otherwise, thank you for your work.
It's just grammatically correct without any value added.
Right now, the deportation/mistreatment is being done "just" to immigrants, as in: "only to immigrants." However, this sets things up to be expanded beyond "just" immigrants, i.e., to where it can then also affect non-immigrants.
There's a reason why it's important for it to be framed like this. For many people, unfortunately, they do not care about marginalized/vulnerable groups. To them, it may very well be ok that immigrants are being treated this way. But if you frame it as a starting point that can eventually affect them, then that's a reason for them to care. Much like the "First they came" poem.
I'm a first-generation immigrant myself. The point here isn't to devalue immigrants, but to bring awareness that this is how fascist regimes always start. They pick some group that most people might not care much for to scapegoat/mistreat, then they expand it from there. Making that connection is very important.