Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> I don't think that this is what Darren was saying, but rather that the 
>>> Arizona law opens the potential for someone who *is* a legal citizen but 
>>> isn't carrying their papers on them to be deported.
> 
>> No. I'm saying that some people want to pass a law to deport someone who 
>> *is* a legal citizen and who *is* carrying their passport to be deported 
>> because they were born of illegal immigrants.
> 
>   If someone commits a crime which is so serious to deserve tens of years
> of prison, it might, in fact, be more practical if he was thrown out of
> the country because that would become cheaper.

I'm not following what your point is. The people they're talking about 
throwing out haven't committed any crimes.

> so where are you going to deport him to? 

That's exactly my point.  Even assuming someone *did* commit a crime, which 
they didn't in this case, but assuming they did, there's nowhere to deport 
him to.

> because the reasons of him being a refugee are not acceptable (namely, he
> was kicked out of his own country because of a serious crime he committed).

Except in this case, the person wasn't a criminal.

> If country A started dumping its own criminal citizens to country B, which
> has its own immigration laws and policies, it would probably cause a political
> conflict.

I think we call that Australia. ;-)

>   A cynic could say "the government granted him citizenship, the government
> is stuck with him, so it just has to suck it up".

In this case, the government didn't "grant" him citizenship. He was born 
here, making him a citizen automatically from birth.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
   open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.

Post a reply to this message