{"id":5069,"date":"2020-03-01T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2020-03-01T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:27:56","slug":"the-duty-to-disobey-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/01\/the-duty-to-disobey-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duty to Disobey Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this piece very interesting because it is very relevant in today&#8217;s political and social climate. Before reading this piece, I personally did not agree with the idea of open borders, but I thought viewing it from a moral and ethical standpoint was a very interesting perspective to take rather than the usually economic or judicial. With a topic such as immigration, I think this is where ethics\/ morals and reality tend to conflict. On one hand, the economic and social pitfalls of illegal immigration can be easily pointed out and defended. Yet, I agree with Hidalgo&#8217;s points that barring somebody from entering the country is unjust and can promote global poverty. They point that I think Hidalgo neglects to address is the actual &#8220;rights&#8221; of illegal migrants. She commonly references the &#8220;rights&#8221; of migrants that citizens must respect, but speaking through legality, illegal immigrants don&#8217;t have rights in a country they are not a citizen of. They are not given the same rights because they are disregarding the law. On the contrary, if Hidalgo is simply talking about ethical human rights, then I understand where she is coming from talking about the duties of citizens to disobey unjust laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this piece very interesting because it is very relevant in today&#8217;s political and social climate. Before reading this piece, I personally did not agree with the idea of open borders, but I thought viewing it from a moral and ethical standpoint was a very interesting perspective to take rather than the usually economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}