re: #367 Spare O’Lake

You said non-citizens should not be deported without a trial. The only defence available to a non-citizen is that they are refugees or that they have some other legal status. If they can’t prove that, then out they should go.

You may not be aware, but a lot of other countries have statuses other than “citizen” and “illegal immigrant”. In the US, for example, we have “resident aliens”, who are never going to give up their citizenship but are allowed to reside here. Europe has many countries with many similar classifications.

So no, you are completely wrong about the defenses available to non-citizens.

The US is not going to deport the 13,000,000 illegals. You know it, I know it, we all know it. But that doesn’t mean other countries can’t have a rational immigration system and enforce their laws to deport undesireable non-citizens who do not have refugee or other legal status.

This point is moot, in the light of categories other than ‘refugee’ and ‘citizen’.

Canada has a pathetic enforcement record. But Canadians do not support allowing illegals to stay, the way the US seems to.

How do you manage to reconcile those two statements in your head?