Chumly wrote:blatham,
given you're a former Canuck, it might be interesting to compare Canada's massive open arms immigration policy to the US's illegal immigration concerns. Given their proximity one might argue their polices are at odds.
hi chumly
As you know, the two countries adopted somewhat different models for immigration policy, in Canada it is commonly referred to as "mosaic" whereas the US term is "melting pot". Canadian policy allowed/encouraged ethnic groups to retain their identities and to settle together in enclaves. The US sought assimilation. Some of what we are witnessing here on this thread and in the US generally can be attributed to that assimilation idea or goal. It's really a sort of oil and water problem as people do not easily give up their cultural heritage (see the Brits in India or the Americans in the Green Zone and elsewhere).
Further, the unique history of the US worked to foster a notion of "exceptionalism" and of a quite evangelical sense of mission to rehabilitate the rest of the world such that it might strive to become what it clearly ought to become - that is, American (because of its exceptionalism and closer proximity to the proper or perfectness. Inherent in all of that is the corollary that that which is non-american is not really up to snuff. The further step taken (by many) is that outsiders will pollute or move america back away from the perfect or the good.
That said, the US surely has a greater 'problem' simply as a consequence of its location and climate-range. Though we get a considerable amount of immigration up from Mexico and South/Central America, its nothing compared to the US. That immigration has proved a boon to many business enterprises but it has also caused a lot of turmoil (due mainly to the above).
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