Immigrants as scapegoats

[Dill]

(01-04-2019, 06:05 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: For clarification, are you referring to the UN Universal rights?
If so, then yes, why wouldn't I believe in that?
What I don't believe in is being the World enforcer of those rights against countries that violate their citizens rights.
No country is perfect and we don't live in a Utopian world, we violate some of those rights upon occasion as well. Not only that, each country does not always place the same value for each of those 30 rights.

Sorry I am late getting back to this, Mike. Thanks for responding.

I asked the question about universal rights because or your comments about the need to put American citizens first. That seems to assume that somewhere, somehow, US citizens are not "put first" in some sense.  

I don't understand why anyone would think that non-citizens are somehow privileged over citizens. Sometimes, though, in cases where the human rights of non-citizens are respected, I have heard people call that "special treatment."   For example, I have heard it said that refugees who bring their children through the desert hundreds of miles on foot to get to the US are "getting away" with child abuse, whereas any US parent doing that would be arrested.  

So I was just curious about what, in your view, counted as Non-citizens receiving preference over citizens. How could they be "put first" in any sense?