Creating an all new White state is more realistic than ending immigration or deportations.

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Edit: I will admit that at one point in time, there was a majority who wanted to decrease immigration. But that belief only stayed constant from 1978 to 2014 in which case, it has now dropped and represents only 28% of the current opinion. Support for increasing immigration began in 1999 and it overtook the people who wanted to decrease it in 2020.

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There's still no majority that wants to increase immigration, therefore being democratic and all, there should never have been any increases in immigration, ever. Minority support switching percentages is irrelevant to this conversation.

Having 28% support for something doesn't mean you get to impose your will on the rest of society.

A government that violates the will of the people is an illegitimate government.

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There's still no majority that wants to increase immigration, therefore being democratic and all, there should never have been any increases in immigration, ever. Minority support switching percentages is irrelevant to this conversation. Having 28% support for something doesn't mean you get to impose your will on the rest of society. A government that violates the will of the people is an illegitimate government.

That's not how it works. The USA was never an absolute democracy. Otherwise, someone like Hillary Clinton would have been President instead of Trump if only total votes mattered. Second, you need to demonstrate the actual crime that was being committed when immigration was raised. It's safe to say majority opinion was against this, but that doesn't reflect whether or not something is legal.