Crossing borders: A musing
 

Why is it that the people who want to restrict the influx of foreigners into the US are generally also the ones who support US soldiers being in foreign countries? Sure, the purposes and intended durations are different, but if borders are such an important part of national identity/security, why is it OK for to "violate" others' borders so? And if borders are not an important part of national identity/security, why are we so concerned about them?

Maybe I'm trolling or maybe I have a point? Whichever you think, please keep it nice, thanks :)

I wouldn't point out this parallel to any of them, if I were you. It'll just inspire them to put roadside bombs and snipers along the Rio Grande.

5of5 here. it seems like you have an immigrant's point of view on borders. there is nothing wrong will legal immigration. what we detest are the illegal immigrants. we welcome you if you do it legally, if you don't you are a criminal. simple

Ah, but there must be more to it than that, 5 of 5, unless you also would support any and all measures to make the process of legal immigration easy, inexpensive, and fast.

why should it be easy, inexpensive, or fast?

So the foreign troops can mass quickly. ;)

OMFG! 5of5 is UG! Now I'll have to put anonymoo on ignore, too.

Which one: anonymoo, anonygoo, anonypoo, anonyloo, or anonystew?

Well, US immigrants are not pouring into Afganistan, etc. US soldiers are, however, and the effect is even more detrimental.

What you are forgetting is that the US does not implement policy based on any sort of universal ethic or ideal or even logic. US policy is about whatever political party currently in power thinks is best for itself and its major contributors - to hell with everyone else.

Why should it be hard, expensive, and slow?

If it's LEGAL, it should be efficient. Why waste even more tax payer money dinking around?

It's not the taxpayer's money that's wasted..... oh wait, I do pay taxes. Even though I can't help choose who spends it......

I gotta say.... this thread has yet to be amusing.

Your muse has arrived. :muse:

So an immigrant walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder...

I got nuttin'

I'll give it a shot...

The dudes who bang hookers in the butthole would be the same ones to get an "EXIT ONLY" sign tattooed on their ass?

That's the divorce thread

Bartender says "Where'd ya get that?"

Parrot says "hired him down by the highway."


Mmmm. Worth it?

Worth every penny! :)

I have no problem with anyone coming into this country without committing a crime in that process. If you enter the UK illegally you will be kicked out. Name any Westernized country in the world where you can walk in and stay in the numbers that the US has experienced? We remain generous in that fact, to a fault. Time to shut the door and address the issue.

Well, if you are a Turkish worker, then Germany. And you get Urlaubsgeld too. I might be wrong, I have to check with the wife's rels to be 100%. All I know is they never stop whining about the Turks.

cite
off the top of my head

Germany- Turks (footies head)
France - North Africans
Great Britain - Indians / Carribean Islanders / Irish

"We" don't sound generous. We sound like we're wanting to bitch about something so we impose our attitude on a scapegoat.