re: #132 swamprat

I am for closing the borders. Complete wall. Then allowing all to enter, but have them documented, fingerprinted, whatever.

My point is that we already do that to the point that we’re willing to pay for it and to restrict our own rights. I know that I don’t carry my birth certificate with me when I leave the house. If that were a requirement everywhere, then every American would have given up their own liberties to a significant degree, and so forth.

Xenophobes want us to believe that there is little or no border enforcement. The fact is, there is plenty of it already. We need to stop falling for the meme that our borders aren’t already closed. They are. Not perfectly of course, but that’s like complaining that because crime exists there is no police enforcement.

re: #132 swamprat

And I believe we should have a rational plan for legalization, both for those who come, and for those who are here. I don’t even care what the plan is; or if it is to be draconian, or easy.

Amnesty. And as it stands, there are a ridiculous amount of requirements put on people who are seeking citizenship. For example, a 6-month tourist Visa doesn’t require the same health checks that permanent citizenship does, even though you can spread whatever diseases you have in 6 months that you could if you moved here for good. The laws involved are just stoopid.