> Everyone has a moral right not to be deported to somewhere they've never known.
That's the exact same argument people who live in any rapidly gentrifying neighborhood make. You do NOT have the moral right to live whereever you want, even if it's the only place you know.
Fundamentally you live where you can afford and it's legal for you to live. You don't have the rights to any piece of land unless you have a deed, and even then, eminent domain can trump your rights.
1. Out-of-control housing prices are also a moral problem. That's why it's such a hot-button issue, after all. The difference is that the housing market is a tough issue to solve, while the prospect of mass deportations is a very easy issue to solve: don't start mass deportations.
2. We're not talking about having to move across town. We're talking about being deported to a country you've never known. Being forcibly separated from your friends and family. Being unable to even visit them due to the mandatory 10-year ban on entering the United States after being deported.
And again, since you mention legality, it was illegal for Japanese-Americans to live in their homes during World War II. Yet they had a right to do so.
Hah. You're already confusing mass deportation as a moral problem, rather than a legal and policy problem. Should illegal immigrants be deported en masse? Should criminals be incarcerated en mass?
> We're talking about being deported to a country you've never known.
You're talking about children who were born in the states? They have a choice. Either stay in the states or go with their parents to another country. It's up to them, just like it's up to any other citizen. The children are not forced to leave.
That's the exact same argument people who live in any rapidly gentrifying neighborhood make. You do NOT have the moral right to live whereever you want, even if it's the only place you know.
Fundamentally you live where you can afford and it's legal for you to live. You don't have the rights to any piece of land unless you have a deed, and even then, eminent domain can trump your rights.