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Re:A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to T... by woopwoop on Thursday May 04, 2017 @11:51AM (#14265774)
Why do you make this analogy at the level of a country? Why not at the level of a street, or a town, or a county, or a state? Would you be okay with, say, Massachusetts limiting immigration from Michigan? Would you be okay with people on 51st street refusing to let people from 120th street move in? If not, what makes you feel different about immigration at the national level?
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Re:A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to T... by DarkKomunalec on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:09PM (#14265961)
Because a country is home to all its citizens, limiting internal immigration like that is stealing bits of the country from other citizens. And since doing that is illegal (I'm guessing in most countries), you'll have to conquer those bits by force... at which point you'll just have a new, smaller country.
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Re:A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to T... by woopwoop on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:35PM (#14266258)
The statement "an X is home to all its citizens" is true for any X.
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