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agm:

You can’t implement good laws if you ignore a large chunk of the population, and this includes people who have the jitters about brown-skinned immigrants.

Whether this is true or not, the point I was making had nothing in particular to do with whether or not you should implement new, better laws, or if so, when. It had to do with whether or not you’re obliged in conscience to try to enforce already existing laws that are unjust. (You’re not, because an unjust law has no legitimate authority, and because you’re never obliged in conscience to do an injustice—even if every single person in the country besides you were demanding that you do it.) Admittedly ridiculous laws should not be enforced, and real people’s lives and livelihoods are a hell of a lot more important than making your point about “national sovereignty.”