Immigration Reform deal done? - Page 2

Oberon · 06-25-07, 06:43 AM

Countries really need to start closing their borders to any form of immigration, I've long since argued that for Britain, that enough is enough. Britain has the advantage over Spain that it's an island, and therefore (hopefully) a little easier to monitor if anyone can be bothered.
Hitmans friends idea bears merit but I dare say would be quashed by the EUnichs.
It can be argued that we are to blame in some respects for this situation, it can be argued (and it is certainly of my opinion) that the Allies were to blame for World War II, by creating the situation for Hitler to rise to power....but, at the end of the day, we can sit back and hindsight until we're blue in the face (or hind) and it's not going to do a blind bit of difference. Action must be taken.

BTW: AL I love the pic!!

Hitman · 05-21-07, 10:39 AM

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There was a big article in Businessweek 2 weeks ago, singing the praise of the success of massive immigration in your country, Spain. The article claimed that Spain could serve as the positive role model for the rest of Europe, now much more experienced in the negative aspects of immigration. The article devoted one small paragraph to what-if-it-doesn't-work and then moved on to nothing but blind positive thinking.

It's not my country. I could afford to laugh at the author but I just shook my head.

Hey, inmigration has been a success here. We have MILLIONS of inmigrants, can you think of a higher success?

[Irony mode OFF]

Spain as we know it today is the result of inmigration and a flow of lots of cultures. All of them contributed to form us as we are today, Romans, cartaginens, phoenicians, visigotes, islam...yet it should be obvious that NONE of those cultures exists any longer but instead there is a fusion of all of them. Many cheap columnists seem to forget that. If we continue to have such a flow of inmigration, we might have a succesful society, a strong economy here and a strong culture here (Which I doubt) but it will NO LONGER be the spanish one, that's for sure:hmm:

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You guys should have thought of that before you went and colonized them. Great job you did around the world. You really should be proud of yourselves.

As yee sow, so shall yee reap.

Great contribution to the discussion Heibges, backed with lots of historical data and a deep reasoning. You must be proud of it.

06-25-07, 06:43 AM	#1
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Countries really need to start closing their borders to any form of immigration, I've long since argued that for Britain, that enough is enough. Britain has the advantage over Spain that it's an island, and therefore (hopefully) a little easier to monitor if anyone can be bothered. Hitmans friends idea bears merit but I dare say would be quashed by the EUnichs. It can be argued that we are to blame in some respects for this situation, it can be argued (and it is certainly of my opinion) that the Allies were to blame for World War II, by creating the situation for Hitler to rise to power....but, at the end of the day, we can sit back and hindsight until we're blue in the face (or hind) and it's not going to do a blind bit of difference. Action must be taken. BTW: AL I love the pic!!