Originally Posted by Ardy
Every rich country has illegal immigration problems. My wife lived for a while on Cyprus. They have an illegal immigration problem. One would be hard pressed to connect that reality to their foreign policy or their corporate multinationals.

one would not be pressed at all, its a gateway into the rest of the EU for one, and for two Europe has been exploiting africa for generations in the exact same manner as the US companies. its pretty similar ardy.

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Yes, but when people use US foreign policy as a justification to support illegal immigration, then I see no basis to distinguish one undocumented immigrant from any other.

i dont follow. could you please explain this?


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And in this context, it seems that the argument is indistinguishable from proposing open borders.

Whats the worst that could happen?



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