Quote:The government has the right (and some would say responsibility) to stop people in the border, and (I guess) to find people and send them back.
The government (that's you and me) has the right to govern, not just at the edges but within the country too. Just because someone has managed to get here does not give them any more rights than he or she had before they entered the country.
yipes. Who's there?
Please forgive me, I hear these words coming out of my mouth, (or my keyboard) and I wonder 'who's there?'. I was, in the sixties, a loud proponent of 'open borders', the idea that any human ought to be able to go anywhere to live. Pretty cool, huh? I'm still an optimist and an idealist, ( I think, maybe not, I have my days), but I have also seen some of the realities. (see above my paragraph that starts with open borders.)
I think Craven is right. I think that we will move towards a smaller, more open world, but presently, with the rise of terrorism combined with the global economy's power to regulate people's lives with or without the connivance of government*, I think we are farther away from 'open borders' than we were when my friends and I passed the pipe around.
*Remember, government is you and me.
Joe
PS Deb, where yuh gonna go? Twhere's betta?
