Posted on 04/20/2002 8:26:34 AM PDT by Kermit
The responses that I have gotten from my congressmen are what I believe is the situation and reflect what I have written.
Open immigration may have been challenged by knee jerk reactionaries (including myself) since 9/11 but few in congress are willing to outright advocate curtailing it. They do advocate a much higher degree of control, and are working toward that goal. Perhaps another terror attack involving middle east immigrants with temporary visas would change the mood. Until the general mood changes, I doubt they will do anything that would involve suspending the laws. They will tinker with enforcement though.
Your thinking indicates to me that you believe we live and operate under a democracy. We do not.
Our elected leaders often ingnore some demands from voters no matter how many voices are involved. It takes alot more balls to do that then to go which ever way the wind blows. Borders and global trade are intertwined. If you don't know how and why, I am not going to explain it here. Perhaps a subject to peruse at a later time. It is sufficient to say that much larger goals and purposes are at work here and it is not the simple issue that you make it out to be. Nuff said.
Consider yourself lucky then! :-)
Seriously, these people are warped. They (and their parents) are concentration camp survivors -- my dad remembers when they first moved to his neighborhood, right after WW2, seeing the tattooed numbers on their forearms -- cozying up to savages who would do the very same to them.
This sounds very interestig. Is there an article or reference which mentions it? The subject of this post is a live TV broadcast (which I didn't see); as far as I know, there's nothing on-line, nor is there a permanent record of what transpired.
This is quite shocking news. Thanks for flagging me aristeides.
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