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Re: Views on asylum seekers?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:57:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
[big snip, I agree]
> I was just thinking (ooh, dangerous) a bit... A while ago I proposed
> that the conditions in the "third world" are partially the fault of the
> populations of those countries. I'd like to revise that thought a bit
> and point out that if we did have open immigration, many more of those
> petty dictatorships would collapse. Why? Because the populace would have
> more opportunity to vote with their feet.
Agreed. Further, what would happen if by offering a place to the people of
Banana Republic X, we got more than half of them to want to come to the US?
Could we charge them the nation that they're leaving as a fee? We could then
just go occupy their territory since a majority of them voted for it. It's a
new land-grab scam!
But actually, I think that we should offer whole smallish populations the
opportunity to be replaced into the US. We're large enough to take them in and
we could send "normal" Americans out to where the new immigrants used to live,
to colonize the new frontier.
We should do that with Jerusalem too. Make it a territory of the US, establish
US justice, move the problem people out, and happy North Americans in. Then we
could let neighboring nationals visit their Holy sites all they wanted, and it
wouldn't be in the hands of their religious antithesis. I wonder if I could
get the concessions contract?
Chris
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| (...) Of course if tbey come in and don't respect property rights, they will find themselves detained, and possibly sent back where they came from. (...) And we have demonstrated that such collections are pretty effective, even as people complain (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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