I believe in open borders. If you wanna come here, find a job and pay taxes it's totally cool with me. Welfare benefits, social security and the like should be reserved for full citizens in order to lessen abuse. Upon becoming a citizen they should receive backdated benefits i.e. time paid into social security based on tax returns. Reasonable, no?Dilbert_X wrote:
I'm not anti-immigrant, I'm against illegal migration - having done it the proper way.Jay wrote:
How can you, an immigrant, be anti-immigration?
Do you think people should have to go through a proper migration system, or should anyone who can jump a fence or swim a river be granted full citizenship rights with no questions asked?
Shouldn't there at least be some checks to see if their story stands up at all?
As it stands now the system here is so twisted a white, Christian American democrat with a criminal record travelling on a false passport would likely be granted political asylum in Australia on the basis they feel persecuted by Fox News and talk radio shows.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat