Why, oh why, aren't illegal immigrants flooding into Venezuela, provided they bring their own toilet paper and an edible pet or two. You think maybe for this reason?
Why, oh why, aren't immigrants illegally flooding into Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia?
Oh, that's right, I forgot. For this reason, and this and this.
People tend to vote with their feet. Just like Jews who fled Germany in the late 1930s, and who fled the Russian pogroms before that. So if Drumpf is such an evil dictator, why aren't Mexicans trying to stop us at the border from fleeing Drumpf's persecutions? Why aren't they demanding a wall to keep us out? Please respond. Apparently I'm missing something.
Those who claim that the U.S. is a country founded by immigrants are certainly correct, even if we go back to the days of native American Indians, all of whom forcibly took their happy hunting grounds from earlier tribes, if I understand recorded history correctly. I doubt anyone with a third-grade education would claim otherwise. It must have sucked to have been an original inhabitant. But it's also true that 2+2 equals 4. So what's the point about the U.S. being a land of immigrants? What relevant question does that answer?
The U.S. is also the former home of sabre-toothed tigers, the La Brea tar pits and a breeding ground of mosquitoes that carry viruses. It's also the place where scalping one's enemies once was popular, bedbugs were common, smallpox and cholera were deadly and subsistence-living was the norm, where alligator gar still can be found in most southern rivers, and where grizzly bears still may tear you apart. All of these statements are statements of fact. None of them are claimed to be the answer to anything but a trivial question. They merely are statements that can be verified (or falsified) in regard to the history of the land mass now known as the U.S.A. And they all existed, in one form or another, in recorded history. So if someone defends an open border policy by insisting that America is a land of immigrants, please help introduce them to the fourth grade. I think history begins to be taught then. Then comes logic, which I hear is still offered in some colleges.
Anyway, what was my point? I don't remember. So, I'll start another one.
Don't be stupid. But if you suspect you might be, just keep your mouth shut. It makes you look smart.
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