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Originally posted by cybermike
I have to use this as my sig...
Just because someone isn't a citizen doesn't mean they don't diserve equal rights. When your ancestors came over from england or wherever to seek the freedom that they deserved and they were turned away at the border because they looked like someone who could possibly cause trouble? If history has taught us anything it should be to not judge people based on what they look like or where they come from.
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Umm, I mostly want to focus on your last sentence....You do realize that there used to be segregation based on both race and ethnicity, right? And that it happened right here in the US? And the government wasn't real keen on changing things until the 1960's? Did you know that?
So history has taught us something. Treating people differently because of skin color or country of origin is wrong. I fully agree with that. The situation is a difficult one, I admit, and it may actually backfire. The people that they are going to have to worry about aren't going to set a bomb and leave, they're going to strap explosives to their chests and blow themselves up, so this "exercise" is simply being done to ease the minds of the ignorant masses.