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mac: “Rad Geek, are you completely oblivious to reality? People are NOT shot, they are merely detained, and transported back to their country of legal residence.”

Again: try declining to be “detained” (this is also known as being “imprisoned”) and see what happens to you. You will have guns waved in your face, cuffs and other restraining devices used, and if all that does not work you will be overpowered by physical force, using whatever means the agent deems to be necessary and appropriate. Do you think that it matters, or should matter, to me whether someone who has done nothing other than try to come here to work is shot dead, shot with painful “non-lethal” weapons, or merely beaten, wrestled to the ground, and restrained until they comply? If so, why?

Government action is essentially tied to the use of force or the threat of force. If government agents do not use and do not threaten force against you, then they are not enforcing the laws that you claim you want them to enforce. Laws against peaceful immigrants require the direct use of force to attack people who have not violated anyone’s rights. If you want such laws on the books, then you had better be willing to cop to what that involves.