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To: TKDietz

The government should be able to tell people they can’t harbor illegal aliens (yeah, novel concept, I know). Whether a citizen of a foreign country is allowed to live here legally is a decision the government should make based on the qualities of that individual foreigner, not on whether a citizen of the host country represents to the government that s/he is “genuinely in love with”,”’married’ to” or “planning to ‘marry’”, “planning to have/raise children with” the foreigner. None of these personal issues are any of government’s business, and needless to say, they are all things that can faked and/or changed. I’m sure lots of foreigners really do convince themselves they’re “in love with” a US or UK citizen, and then proceed to convince the US or UK citizen that the feeling is mutual, even when what’s really going on is that the foreigner is in love with dreams of living in the US or UK.


6 posted on 08/01/2008 8:54:14 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I'm just glad you don't make our laws then. I think Americans should be able to marry whomever they want to marry and should be able to bring their spouses to this country to live with them as long is their spouses aren't otherwise inadmissible because they are criminals or something like that. This isn't about being nice to foreigners, it's about our citizens having the freedom to marry whoever they want to marry. GI falls in love with a nice German girl while he's stationed there, by gosh he ought to be able to marry her and bring her home with him if that's what he wants to do. We shouldn't tell him he can't come home unless he ditches his wife. What you are suggesting has never been the law here and it never should be the law here.
7 posted on 08/01/2008 9:08:32 AM PDT by TKDietz
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