Do you own a house or a condo? If I sneak into your house, take your keys and duplicate them, and then walk into your bedroom and start living there, using your kitchen and electricity without paying for it, I will not be an illegal person, but I will be doing illegal actions. You will probably call the police on me, won't you? You want to control, who lives in your house, don't you? Anyone who lives in your house against your will does so illegally. If you don't own your own house, you must know somebody who does; please put yourself in their shoes. Likewise, a country wants to control, who lives inside its borders, and has immigration laws that say so. Anyone who lives in the country while breaking these laws does so illegally. Is this so hard to understand? Now, it is possible that these laws are stupid and should be changed. In fact, they are being changed. An LJ friend of mine is an immigration lawyer from Boston, and today she posted Obama's proposal for immigration law reform. Yet as long as the laws remain on books, anyone who breaks them is doing illegal things.
With few exceptions (Estonia, perhaps?), there is no country on Earth the ancestors of the population of which didn't come from another country and steal the land via rape and murder. In historic times, England was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons and later by the Normans; France by the Franks; Eastern Germany was Slavic-speaking until about 1000 CE; the Hungarians came from beyond the Urals and invaded Hungary in the 9th century. In Russophone LJ some 7 years ago I once saw a heated argument about who Kosovo should belong to, the Albanians or the Serbs, and said that all humanity came out of Africa some 60,000 years ago. Yet I cannot think of a country that has an open borders policy because of its citizens' guilt for their murderous ancestors.
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Do you own a house or a condo? If I sneak into your house, take your keys and duplicate them, and then walk into your bedroom and start living there, using your kitchen and electricity without paying for it, I will not be an illegal person, but I will be doing illegal actions. You will probably call the police on me, won't you? You want to control, who lives in your house, don't you? Anyone who lives in your house against your will does so illegally. If you don't own your own house, you must know somebody who does; please put yourself in their shoes. Likewise, a country wants to control, who lives inside its borders, and has immigration laws that say so. Anyone who lives in the country while breaking these laws does so illegally. Is this so hard to understand? Now, it is possible that these laws are stupid and should be changed. In fact, they are being changed. An LJ friend of mine is an immigration lawyer from Boston, and today she posted Obama's proposal for immigration law reform. Yet as long as the laws remain on books, anyone who breaks them is doing illegal things.
With few exceptions (Estonia, perhaps?), there is no country on Earth the ancestors of the population of which didn't come from another country and steal the land via rape and murder. In historic times, England was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons and later by the Normans; France by the Franks; Eastern Germany was Slavic-speaking until about 1000 CE; the Hungarians came from beyond the Urals and invaded Hungary in the 9th century. In Russophone LJ some 7 years ago I once saw a heated argument about who Kosovo should belong to, the Albanians or the Serbs, and said that all humanity came out of Africa some 60,000 years ago. Yet I cannot think of a country that has an open borders policy because of its citizens' guilt for their murderous ancestors.