Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> When he came back to the US, his opinion had changed; even 
> coming from Cuba, he had no idea conditions were that bad in the rural 
> parts of Mexico and he completely understood the motivation people had to 
> cross the border, even illegally, to escape from that extreme poverty.

  This presents a moral problem which easily makes multiculturalists kind
of hypocrite.

  Usually multiculturalists heavily oppose the deporting of illegal
immigrants because they would usually be deported to an environment of
extreme poverty, as you mention.

  However, this presents a moral dilemma: Why are those who have successfully
crossed be border considered to have "more right" to be protected than those
who haven't? Is being able to cross the border some kind of test you have to
pass in order to get the protection of multiculturalists and human right
activists? What about those who didn't succeed in crossing the border, and
those who haven't even attempted, but who live in such poor conditions?
Don't they deserve such protection as well?

  Or are they simply comfortably "far away" enough so that they can be
ignored?

  Of course the problem is that of resources: No matter how rich the
rich countries are, it's a physical impossibility to open the borders
to everyone to come in who so wishes. If all western countries did that,
probably 2-3 billion of people would move in, creating a complete economical
catastrophe. The economy and society of the rich countries would simply
collapse.

  Multiculturalists and human right activists understand that, so nobody
seriously is demanding complete opening of borders (except perhaps a few
wackos).

  And here's where the hypocrisy steps in: They defend to death the right
of illegal immigrants, those who have somehow succeeded in entering the
country, to stay in the country, because if they were deported they would
be returned to the poverty, but they don't demand bringing *all* people
from those poor countries.

  Thus being able to get inside the borders of the rich country is, in
practice, some kind of test: If you pass it, you get protection, if you
don't pass it, then you don't get the same protection. People are treated
differently depending on whether they had this luck or not.

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                                                          - Warp

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