[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Miller, Jeremy
JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us
Tue Jun 18 18:46:23 UTC 2002
> I agree that there should be better legal processes to enter
> the country.
> As I said the INS is completely incompetent. But given that,
> I have met
> many people that have legally immigrated into this country.
> Some have even
> been naturalized. What a slap in the face it is to them to
> give immunity or
> driver's licences to illegals.
Agreed.
> >In contrast to the southern border, we have the northern border. It's
> >the longest undefended border in the world. We also don't
> seem to have a
> >problem there.
>
> We should also gaurd the northern border.
I'm not so sure about that. If talking about tax money, that might cost as
much or more than...
> > I think the state and federal governments should not spend one dime
> > of my tax money translating ballots and driver's hand books
> into other
> > languages.
... all of that stuff, with minimal benefit. I'm not expecting a Canadian
invasion any time soon, so that wouldn't be a benefit. It wouldn't be cost
effective against infiltration by a handful of hostile people, either.
(We'd need the equivent or better of a modern-day berlin wall from coast to
coast to do any good. And a big net across the great lakes. :)
So what would we gain?
> Clearly, I have not communicated this point well. I will try
> again. We all
> need to speak the same language and be one culture. In every
> country that
> has more than one culture you have a long bloody war until
> one side wins and
> enslaves or exterminates the other. Or the country gets
> devided into 2 or
> more counties. If we are all one culture, this will not
> happen. It is one
> of the great strengths of America that we allow others to
> come here and
> become our equals.
Agreed, but I don't think that is going to happen. We're extremely good at
assimilating other cultures, and this really isn't that much different.
We've done it many times. It's just a much bigger bite to chew off... that
means it'll take more time to digest it. (Our snake is eating a large
rabbit, instead of the usual mice. Even if the entire population moved up
here... I still think we could handle it. Not without issues, but I don't
think it would degrade into that sort of chaos. And if that happened, maybe
we'd want to grab Mexico as an annexation. Now there's a wild thought!)
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