#8. Why is it racist, I wonder. Is it because everybody knows the race(s) of illegal immigrants, whom Connolly was talking about? This probably means that she was reflecting the common feelings in the country. (I'm clueless about what's going on actually, so all this looks pretty weird to me. To me, she was expressing her opinion. I believe, the only illegal part of her tweet was the word "mass", because with mass deportations you won't be able to maintain human rights. The rest: deportations, burning hotels, it's all legal, if done in a due process. Say, if she wrote something like "we need a legal process to deport illegal immigrants, and we need to destroy the hotels the only purpose of which is to host illegal immigrants", would that be legal?

As an immigrant, I'm pretty much against illegal immigration. But which immigration should be viewed illegal, must be carefully defined. Refugees, are they illegal? I don't think so.