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an immigration regime that was artificial and unjust

I do not mean to adopt the facile pose of the leftist critic for whom all accommodation to the reality of the fallen world is just so much cowardice or betrayal. DACA allowed hundreds of thousands of people who would have otherwise lived in fear to enjoy some fraction of the peace and security the …

—p.9 n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith Society as Checkpoint (7) by n+1
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soteriological

The central arguments around DACA were soteriological

—p.9 Society as Checkpoint (7) by n+1
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the system of exclusion that divided “legals” from “illegals"

[...] Even knowing that for every successful immigrant there were others with equal moral claims who suffocated in vans, drowned in the ocean, or were turned back to die in the Holocaust, we willingly made ourselves complicit in the system of exclusion that divided “legals” from “illegals.” Once we…

—p.8 Society as Checkpoint (7) by n+1
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