I find the Left’s radical pivot on illegal immigration the best place to start.
Here are some questions I ask-
Is Barack Obama a racist? Were his policies in office racist? (Ditto for Clinton and Biden). Were you aware that Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any preceding president? Why did the Democrats policy toward illegal immigration change so suddenly? (“Because it is racist...”). Ok, so you agree we cannot have immigration policies that are racist?
Do you realize that allowing illegal immigration is racist? Some of the biggest advocates for a system that tolerates illegal immigration are corporate Republicans, like the Koch brothers. Did you know that illegal immigrants in the US are often employed at unfair wages and with unfair benefits because they are cheaper than employing Americans? With AA and Hisp Americans losing the most job opportunities? Do you think that America could let every person in the world immigrate here, and that our infrastructure, things like our schools, hospitals, available housing, jobs, food supply, could handle having an increase in a year of say 1 billion more people here? If not, then you support a limited level of immigration each year so that infrastructure can keep pace with population growth. If the immigration levels we are going to have are limited, then shouldn’t Asians, Africans, Middle Easterners, indigenous people from Australia and New Zealand, pacific islanders, and Indians all have the same access to immigration as Caucasians and Hispanics? By tolerating illegal immigration, we hurt illegal immigrants (unfair jobs, violent coyotes, sex trafficking), while also not being able to raise legal immigration limits or quotas, which in turn hurts all of the other groups who do not have the benefit of being able to walk or drive a car or ride a bus to the US’s southern border.
That conversation almost always results in concessions that the way the issue is sold by the MSM and Dem pols isn’t the whole story.