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Old 03-09-2008, 03:54 PM   #30 (permalink)
Martian
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Originally Posted by aberkok
Yeah... I don't give a crap about where a kid comes from. If he's hungry, I'll feed him.
I fed aberkok once, and he's short enough to be mistaken for a child.

Seriously, who says no to something like this? I don't care who the kid's parents are. Insane sociopath-terrorist-incestual-hippies? Whatever, fuck it. Hungry kids should be fed. All kids should be educated. And all kids should receive health care. Investing in the next generation is how we improve our society as a whole.

Going off on ratbastid's tangent a bit, I would suggest that crying and chest-thumping over illegal immigrants isn't terribly productive. A more profitable line of inquiry would be why they chose to immigrate illegally, rather than going through proper channels. Is your immigration program needlessly complex or exclusive? Are economic or social factors in their homeland such doing it properly is excessively difficult or impossible? And what can you as a nation do to help alleviate this?

That's my two cents, anyway.
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