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Originally Posted by willravel
If someone broke into my house and cleaned it up and charged less than my cleaning lady, I don't see myself pressing charges. But that's a really good argument (seriously). I had to think about that one for a minute.
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But the real question is not whether you or I would choose to press charges. It's whether or not the action would be illegal in the first place.
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Originally Posted by willravel
I understand what you're saying, but I put a great deal of interest in how we can live like friends in our global neighborhood. I want us to be a good neighbor, and we can't do that (right now) by shutting down our borders and kicking them out. A better way to do this would be to retool CAFTA and other trade agreements
in order to benefit everyone, not just the few. When Clinton loaned Mexico $50b in the 1994 devaluation of the peso, it was a fantastic start, but the real process of healing the Mexican economy is going to take decades of hands on work. I know, Mexicans aren't the only immigrants, but I know a ton of Mexicans, and I'm pretty sure that Mexicans represent the largest illegal population in the US. We should be helping them because it's the right thing to do. Imagine if we took 100m of the hundreds of billions of dollars sent to Iraq and helped to build a school infrastructure in Mexico.
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I'm certainly not against trying to be friendly neighbors with other nations, but an important part of that is respect for your neighbor's rights. If I had a neighbor who was constantly entering my property illegally (regardless of his or her reasons for doing so), I would say that he or she is a very bad neighbor. Not necessarily a bad person, but definitely a bad neighbor.
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Originally Posted by willravel
I suppose there's very little evidence of anything of this nature because the US had never done this (that I'm aware of).
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Just to clarify; I don't want American companies to go out of business or even suffer financially. But I don't think the American government should allow the decisions of corporations to hamstring us when trying to assert sovereignty over our own country.