I don't believe that this interpretation of OP is very charitable.
Regardless of the politics of undocumented immigrants, you have to account for how you are going to service these people. This group is currently living outside of the system.
To combat COVID19, we need them to participate inside of this system.
This isn't actually a bad thing to point out and it SUPPORTS the "undocumented immigrants" cause.
We can't keep pretending that they don't live IN this society.
Acknowledging that as it stands, they can't economically or politically participate in the system is not the same thing as advocating for them to be removed or punished.
If anything, it acknowledges that the current system doesn't work and needs to be re-worked to include this group of people.
Again, 10M people are unable to participate in a productive treatment or cure. This will ensure that we all fail to contain and mitigate this disaster.
> This group is currently living outside of the system.
I think that the point that I’m trying to make (as are others in this thread) is that there are many more people who are “living outside the system” when we consider “the system” to be those who can get treatment and afford to distance themselves from others (i.e. stay home from work or work remote).
Expressing concern about the problem that undocumented immigrants pose is such a massively premature thing to do that I find it impossible to read the original comment in good faith.
> 10M people are unable to participate in a productive treatment or cure.
Many more than 10M people are going to be unable or unwilling to participate in treatment or inoculation due to the structure of the American healthcare system.
Raising the concern about undocumented immigrants inhibiting our recovery effort is naïvely misinformed at best and a dogwhistle for encouraging discriminatory behavior at worst.
> Raising the concern about undocumented immigrants inhibiting our recovery effort is naïvely misinformed at best and a dogwhistle for encouraging discriminatory behavior at worst.
This type of comment is really unproductive.
OPs comment is easily read as the opposite of what you're suggesting. Again, this is easily pro immigration/healthcare for all.
I don't believe that this interpretation of OP is very charitable.
Regardless of the politics of undocumented immigrants, you have to account for how you are going to service these people. This group is currently living outside of the system.
To combat COVID19, we need them to participate inside of this system.
This isn't actually a bad thing to point out and it SUPPORTS the "undocumented immigrants" cause.
We can't keep pretending that they don't live IN this society.
Acknowledging that as it stands, they can't economically or politically participate in the system is not the same thing as advocating for them to be removed or punished.
If anything, it acknowledges that the current system doesn't work and needs to be re-worked to include this group of people.
Again, 10M people are unable to participate in a productive treatment or cure. This will ensure that we all fail to contain and mitigate this disaster.