C'mon people, does it really matter who lives where?

Question

Apart from criminals, of course.

Answer 1

As long as the law of the land and an acceptance for the way of life of the country you choose to reside in is followed and respected,i don't have a problem !! :)

Answer 2

It always amazes me that the open-borders crowd ask questions like these without any concern for the consequences.

My question to you is: Do you have locks on your doors and windows? If so, why?

There are thousands of homeless people in your own country. Why not unlock the doors and invite them in? You probably have far more room than you need for simple shelter.

I'll bet your pantry is full of more food than you can eat in a day. Why not let hungry people come in and help themselves?

Does it really matter who pays the mortgage or buys the groceries? C'mon, practice what you preach.

Your kids probably go to a pretty nice school as well. Why not pull out the desks and then you could squeeze twice as many children in. Oh, and if none of the new kids speak English just think of it as "diversity" or "multiculturalism". Don't be a "hater" your whole life.

It won't hurt your children's future because they can't compete with "cheap foreign labor" anyhow. Who needs a degree to flip burgers or wrap fish and chips?

When you pull the locks off your doors and open them wide to anyone who wants to come in and settle down, then you can talk about "sanctuary cities" and open borders.

Otherwise, you're just another bleeding heart liberal who wants to bring Uncle Sanjay and his ten kids over at someone/anyone/everyone else's expense.

Answer 3

Of course it doesn't matter where people live we after all are the most wondering creatures on this planet. Mankind has moved all the time, seeking adventure and new horizons all the time. Borders to me mean one thing a group wishing to make money from a set of people and to raise taxes and rule over people.

I myself had read a new book that is not out yet, after doing the cover for it, had to have a read of it to do the design after all and well I look forward to speaking about it on the radio as I most likely will be in a few months.

Why not criminals have they not built some of the worlds great nations peoples who were expelled from their mother nations.

Answer 4

As I presume that you are referring to England or the UK then it is numbers that matter. At present there is overcrowding in our country and so there should be a limit on the numbers that come here. Maybe the Channel Islands method should be used, this is that the immigrant will be self sufficient and not need to make any use of the NHS, Pensions, will not be allowed to buy low cost housing, in this case we should be able to welcome all the rest.

Answer 5

It apparently doesn't matter in the EU... I would be all for open boarders on this side of the ocean too. I think that we'd experience a quick rush of people wanting to move, but then it would taper off like it did when the EU opened up to more eastern nations. This idea of your identity being bound by an invisible line is quite ridiculous. It's quite inhumane if you ask me, to tell someone they are restricted to a place because they were born there... we're all humans and own the earth equally, it's just power hungry and grubby handed governments and corporations that keep us from living the good life.

Answer 6

It has an economic impact, of course, when immigrants fill jobs that used to be the exclusive domain of citizens. The blue collar class in America feels peculiarly threatened by the presence of illegal immigrants particularly since corporate America has largely stunted the growth and power of labor unions since Ronald Reagan's presidency from 1980-1988. Moreover, Americans generally seem ill at ease or contemptuous of those immigrants who cannot speak or read English.

The United States needs to be formulate a better immigration policy than the one we have now, which is a disaster. Ironically, the cause of secure borders and much tighter enforcement of immigration laws has become a Republican cause celebre without any acknowledgment that illegal immigration was given the wink and a nod treatment by three successive Republican administrations under Reagan and Bush the first. Clinton's administrations put no greater emphasis on stemming illegal immigration and Bush the second followed suit.

You would think with the outcry and uproar that illegal immigration has caused that these people would at least get the facts straight and acknowledge that Republican indifference to illegal immigration, because it undercuts un-organized poorer white and black laborers who are typically Democrats, if they vote at all, and favors employers by providing them with a huge pool of cheap laborers who have virtually no legal rights, and who typically vote Republican, should disqualify them from leadership on this issue.

It's really no different from the guy who sets fire to a building and then after the alarm is rung rushes in to save one or more of the building's occupants. Is he really a hero? Or is he a criminal? Do we really want politics to reward intellectually dishonest politicians just because they spout platitudes that appeal to us at the moment when they have failed to lead on an issue for years because it wasn't politically convenient to do so?

Apparently, Republican voters have no such concerns, which is why we get such incompetent and hypocritical monstrosities as George W. Bush for 8 years!

Answer 7

Since it costs $10,000 per year per child to educate a child in grades K-12, not counting the cost of all of the other services used by poor people and subsidized by others who need those services themselves, yes, it absolutely matters.

Their better life is at our expense and is ruining education and future opportunities for our own children.

Answer 8

Yes it does matter when we have to support them when we got people right here in America that need out help first.

Answer 9

Yes it does, when our forefathers have spent many years (and in some cases their lives) building up this country to make it worth living in, for us just to get flooded with people from outside, taking homes and jobs and opportunities away those of us who are already here, and forcing us out of our own country! How would you feel if that was YOUR country it was happening to?

My forefathers fought and died for this country. Did yours?!

Answer 10

Could a Brit just up and move to a middle east country without getting their noggin cut off? You are very lucky the west is so tolerant. Look what happened to France when outsiders came, they wanted special treatment, and it did not matter to them if they burned, or murdered for it.