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Originally Posted by dc_dux
But to have an immigration policy that is based on what's best for this country and its citizens? Wow.
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I don't see anything "Wow." about it. A government that puts the interests of foreigners over the interests of its own citizens is doing a bad job.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I wonder how many of us would be here if such a policy were in place at the time our families immigrated here. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” So much for Lady Liberty |
Public policy should be based on more than just an inscription on a statue.
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Originally Posted by xepherys
I've also tossed the landmine idea around a good bit over the last couple of years. On a side note, I think it's funny that the top of this thread contained mostly outcries about how ridiculous it is for the UN or another country to tell the sovereign nation of the United States what we can and cannot do... except we do it to other countries ALL THE TIME. *boggle*
Is our superiority complex that out of whack?!
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I don't want people from other countries telling us how America should be run and I don't want America to tell people in other countries how to live their lives. I don't see how this has anything to do with a superiority complex.