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To: Havisham
"State believes that all foreigners should be treated with "fundamental fairness..."

Powell doesn't squat without the approval of the President. If the President seeks to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, he can hardly oppose the doctrinaire asses at State who belive in "fundamental fairness." Can he?
2 posted on 07/17/2002 4:10:41 PM PDT by old school
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To: old school
State believes that all foreigners should be treated with "fundamental fairness

This is an absurd idea since not all countries are equal. Our ability to evaluate the character of a person seeking entry is dependent upon the transparency and integrity of the system from which they come; a closed system where immigrants can easily or even routinely bribe officials to get paperwork needed to come to the US is not equal to a system where such bribery is very difficult and where there is a lively free press to report on news relating to crime and other activities. In the former system it is impossible to clear a person as a person of character; in the latter we have more reliable information, from various perspectives, on a person's background to compare with the individual's claims.

12 posted on 07/17/2002 11:43:14 PM PDT by piasa
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