I’ve observed this utterly bizarre constellation of beliefs in the wild before, too. Although calling any of it “beliefs” is really stretching the term far too thin as there is no cogent thought or value structure behind it.

People really can — and do! — believe that every country in the world has sovereign right to enforce immigration laws except the United States. And then act affronted or confused when you tell them that is it hypocritical to believe that.

The really strange thing about it all is they often completely cannot recognize that this is a contradictory set of opinions. Even if you point it out. Repeatedly. I have no idea what is going on cognitively there but is such an odd things to observe. And it’s fairly common in lefty types, perhaps even dominant.