Ed Leafe wrote: > On May 20, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote: > >> Guess that simplifying it like that makes it easy to ignore the problem. >> A broken immigration system that nobody seems willing to try to fix. >> In fact, Obama stood and said, not a day or two ago, that a country is >> not defined by it's borders. It's not? Since when? > > So let me follow: when our country was founded and our Constitution > written, it had borders. Since then the borders are different, and since > borders define a country, we are now a different country than the one that > created the Constitution. > > It must be a different country, because for most of the time between > then and now there was no limit to who could immigrate: you just showed up, > and unless you showed signs of TB or other disease, you were allowed to enter. > Sure it's a different country ergo why there are amendments to that constitution. However, the country is still defined by it's borders otherwise, why do so many countries fight wars over small patches of ground?
Does America not have immigration laws now? If not, then you are correct but since we both know that that is not the case, it's irrelevant. >> Those individuals need to be treated as the terrorists they are and >> dealt with in the same manner as any other terrorist. I don't care >> whose name they invoke while carrying out their looney plans. > > > And someone who works hard and cares for their family should be treated > like a model citizen, whether or not they have papers. > Only if their residence in the United States of America is in abeyance of the current immigration laws. A hard worker and caring for their family makes no difference otherwise, those American citizens who fail to do either are going to have to be sent elsewhere, would they not? ::michael _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4bf5bcc2.3080...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
