Originally Posted by MKRG
disenfranchised? That makes it sound like the government did it to them! They're the ones who put themselves in that position. It's not the government's fault they jumped the border.
disenfranchise means to deprive of rights. immigrants are deprived of rights because of the laws that make it extremely difficult to get documented/legal residency.
for people who are all hung up on how folks who've crossed borders are "illegal," yall should consider that you've living on land that was stolen via genocide and hundreds of years of broken treaties with independant nations. why don't you have a problem with that, too?