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[billybrobby]

Do we have a big immigration debate thread yet? I'm talking mainly about the debate that's currently occurring in America, but it's a pretty universal thing. I guess I'll take the pro-immigration side.

I'm sympathetic to immigrants cause for the following reasons:

1. I'm of the opinion that being born in a country rightfully entitles a person to nothing. Americans invented the a-bomb, the airplane, and the artificial heart, but did I? No. So I can't claim any credit for those things. The only thing I can claim is my individual contributions, including my contributions to America, which frankly haven't been much, especially since I've spent my adult career here in Korea. If a Mexican spends 10 years working hard in America, he's got more a right to the privileges of America than I.

2. I think that laws have nothing to do with morality. I'll gladly break an unjust law without blinking an eye. So the whole argument that Mexicans should be punished for doing something illegal means nothing to me.

3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10global-t.html?ex=1339128000&en=12f0ac85519fb680&ei=5088

Above is a link to an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine. In it, an economist argues that labor should flow freely from country to country the way that goods do now. I agree with this. Ideally, in the future, the borders between countries should be no harder to cross than the borders between states. Of course, this will have to be implemented slowly, but it should happen one day.

[cbclark4]

No one was complaining when all those native Americans moved south.

[Alyallen]

They need to fund Immigration and the Embassies better to handle the backlog. People who legitimately try to go through the process face A LONG and COSTLY wait to get anything done. The system is in shambles.

But then again, I'm just bitter because my boyfriend couldn't come visit me in Korea because the embassy take too damn long to get their work done.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I think this is a good and worthy topic for discussion.

I'll go along with the previous posters' opinion. I'm for immigration. I'd like to see immigration eased up, somewhat. While there are always some bigots in the barrel, I think most people get along reasonably well with people from other cultures. There seems to be a pretty big 'business' in intermarriage, if the posters on this board are any indication. That's all to the good. Walls come down eventually.

I do think it's reasonable to regulate immigration to balance the number of new jobs created, although this is partly taken care of naturally. You don't see all that many people breaking down the doors to get INTO Haiti. I'm not for entirely unregulated immigration for the simple reason that desperately poor people are in no position to bargain for a better wage.

It might be a misperception on my part, but it seems to me that countries that have accepted immigrants are more culturally vibrant. I don't know if creativity, ambition and risk-taking are genetic, but it seems like people with those characteristics packed up and left home, leaving the boring sorts back home and now the original home countries are showing a lack of those characteristics.

[Satori]

A mixture of peoples and cultures makes a country robust and vigorous and full of creativity and ideas. It`s been good for america. But even though Im a die hard liberal, I have to say that at this current time I`m anti muslim immigration to the west. Flame away ...

[Juregen]

[Tony_Balony]

Hi,
Everyone single one of your points is bad.

[Tiger Beer]

I'm VERY PRO-IMMIGRATION.

But the Mexican immigration is WAY TOO MUCH. It needs to be BALANCED with MANY other countries to make it truly multicultural.

There are 100 million Mexicans in Mexico.

There are 23 million Mexicans LEGALLY who emigrated to the U.S. and make it home forever more. But there are about 30 million ILLEGAL Mexicans in the U.S. who want to be legalized right now, and who knows how many more on the way if that were to happen.

What if 55 million Americans tried to move to ONE other country and currently living there now. Would anyone else in the world accept that kind of number from one other country and one other country alone?

On the other hand, those killer burritos, tacos, enchiladas and tequila with the worm are pretty tasty..

[Tony_Balony]

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[Ya-ta Boy]

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