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Sylent, if those are the Haitian refugees you're referring to, of which there have been many boatloads, they were refugeed at Guantanamo Bay so they just didn't get plopped straight home.
There's a point: Cubans that make it to land get to stay, those that get picked up in the water get sent back (that's the result of a Treaty with Cuba and our policy that we don't deport to Cuba), while Haitians all get sent back. Is there any indicator here that we frown less on lighter-skinned latin immigrants? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
Anyway, let's assume people are all born equal (which, they obviously aren't, but it makes a workable legal fiction). Still, ALL PLACES ARE NOT EQUAL. And, we can't all run from the bad parts of the planet to the good ones -- lest they suffer a fate of overcrowding and poverty (and, in turn become one more bad place).
Final note: the US allows legal immigration, y'know. There's nothing wrong with the government acting as a faucet control to the stream of immigration. Remember the often-meaningless catch phrase "sustainable growth and development."
[ 06-17-2003, 09:43 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]
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