If it’s okay for one family to come here under those circumstances, then you must think that it would be a good idea to pull up a ship off Liberea’s coast and load up all Liberians, and bring them here. If the excuse is good for one, it’s good for all. Well, I don’t.
The United States isn’t the rescue mission for the rest of the planet. I don’t like what takes place in other nations, but we simply cannot bring everyone here.
As for illegal aliens, you haven’t read many of my posts.
The ones that come here are usually the brightest, hardest working, politically aware and best off of the population - in other words - the ones with the most to fight for.
So we become the relief valve for the despot trying to exert control...the ones likely to thwart his plans flee to the U.S. and the pressure on him dwindles.
Everybodys happy in the PC world don't you know.
I’m not suggesting that we pull up the ship to Liberia and all that garbage, I’m commenting on the incoherence of our policies towards foreigners.
On the one hand, we ship back people who literally are running for their lives. It’s something the U.S. has offered since it’s inception (and most Western countries). Sanctuary or asylum isn’t a dirty word entirely; we’ve often allowed people to find asylum here over the course of the nation’s history. That’s different than blatant illegal immigration.
My crack was at how we allow folks who come here illegally and who can’t even claim to be running for their lives to stay here, some of whom are criminals of the worst kind, and many of whom become a drain on our system. But those Liberians—well, they gotta go NOW!
Of course politics is to blame. The Liberians don’t have a Vincente Fox/Calderon to demand rights for them in our country. Or a political party that’s willing to indulge in demographic Russian Roulette to get their votes...