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Should everyone be permitted into the West?
American Thinker ^ | 21 August 2019 | Cam Brown

Posted on 08/21/2019 10:10:56 AM PDT by LavaDog

This is a crucial question and one that tends to make many uncomfortable, but it is legitimate: should everyone from outside the Western world be permitted entry to the West as an immigrant? Is there no point where such nations may be allowed to say no to any particular group, regardless of where they come from?

With the advent of loosened immigration policies throughout the Western world over the last half-century and the growing push for multiculturalism within them, the mantra "diversity is our strength" has ushered in a mentality that effectively says all people, from all over the world, have an inherent right of entry to Western lands. It has been argued that these lands now have an inherent obligation to both permit and embrace these people and that the common citizen is in no way to question these policies at the risk of being branded with all sorts of epithets that (it has been impressed upon him) are more than he should bear. (Words and emotions are all that matters; if you've not a massive dose of empathy, you are inhuman; critical thinking and self-preservation, which includes your own family and people, in general, be damned.)

Yet here's the question: why? Why must this be the case? Why should we just assume that it must be so? Who says, and what is the endgame?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: immigration

1 posted on 08/21/2019 10:10:56 AM PDT by LavaDog
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To: LavaDog

Why should anyone be “let in”?


2 posted on 08/21/2019 10:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: LavaDog
Tell the UN to quit stifling 3rd world development.

We can't import 5 Billion of the world's poor.

3 posted on 08/21/2019 10:24:49 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: LavaDog

Islam is antithetical to western civilization.
It has a “holy” mission to supplant all other forms.

Muslims are commanded to claim all for Allah and subjugate, convert or kill everyone else on earth.


4 posted on 08/21/2019 10:25:54 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: G Larry

After the first billion there will less incentive to come here, it won’t be any better than anywhere else.


5 posted on 08/21/2019 10:27:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: LavaDog

No. Those who want to be a contributing part of us, yes.


6 posted on 08/21/2019 10:31:00 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

Of course. Just ask the squad.


7 posted on 08/21/2019 10:35:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: LavaDog

“...the mantra “diversity is our strength”..”

A euphemism for diversity = more democrat voters.


8 posted on 08/21/2019 11:08:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: LavaDog

Nowhere in “the east” do they have that policy.


9 posted on 08/21/2019 11:08:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: LavaDog

“The destruction of European Civilization - by its own leaders - is one of the most extraordinary acts in all of Human History.”
. -Hungarian Prime Minister, May 2018

A Bitter Truth. “.. massive flows of refugees. It is true, whether we like it or not, that the West cannot possibly absorb even a small fraction of these refugees and survive. A stable and peaceful society is a fragile thing.”


10 posted on 08/21/2019 11:16:46 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: Lurkinanloomin
If we send 100 Million each to:

L.A.

S.F.

Portland

Seattle

Chicago

Detroit

Atlanta

Detroit

Baltimore

Phili

Would they fire their socialist mayors and governors?

11 posted on 08/21/2019 11:21:00 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: LavaDog

“Should” implies a value judgment. And that requires a moral structure.

Under what morality are we obligated to ruin our own country to accommodate people who have ruined theirs?


12 posted on 08/21/2019 11:31:05 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: LavaDog

Just remember the meme from the Rat party, kiddies....

Invasion is a civil right, but only if you’re a non-white


13 posted on 08/21/2019 12:11:59 PM PDT by Regulator (Cuz, you know....borders is discriminatory)
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To: LavaDog

Only those who intend to integrate into our culture and society.

For those who come here to change our culture the answer is not only NO, BUT HELL NO!!


14 posted on 08/21/2019 12:27:43 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: LavaDog
Diversity In Context
15 posted on 08/21/2019 12:41:38 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: G Larry

Please don’t mention Denver in your listings...We already have more than our share from south of the border...


16 posted on 08/21/2019 2:54:48 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: LavaDog

Not Muslims. Muslims have shown time and time again that they are incapable of living by our rules against rape and murder. Just look at Britain and Germany.

Anyone else who is willing to assimilate to our way of life, I would be okay with.


17 posted on 08/21/2019 6:51:33 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: elteemike

I live in the Denver burbs, so......


18 posted on 08/22/2019 6:10:33 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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