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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Let My People -- IN!!
Message-ID: <321@umich.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 14:04:00 EST
Article-I.D.: umich.321
Posted: Thu Nov  7 14:04:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:46:10 EST
References: <28200239@inmet.UUCP> <767@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: Three cheers for unlimited immigration

In article <28200239@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>>- legalize all illegal immigrants, with the proviso
>>  that if they commit a crime or draw too much welfare benefits, they 
>>  can be deported.
>>- make immigration free to anyone who (a) passes an easy
>>  English test; 
>>  and (b) agrees to be deported under the conditions
>>  of the previous item.
>>  This can be phased in by gradually relaxing the English test.

Yes!  After all the studies showing that immigrants contribute more
to the economy than they take away; after all the studies showing the
problems caused by the *illegality* (not just the *immigrants*); and in the
face of the obvious boon to some of the worlds poorest and most oppressed
people:

It's a DISGRACE that the Near Left (among others) hasn't come out for 
unlimited immigration.  This is one libertarian idea that's dead right.

Compassion, anyone?

--Paul V. Torek, feeling like a Gulliver in intellectual Lilliput
torek@umich