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Indeed. Of course many people who arrived at Ellis Island were returned without being allowed to set foot off the island. Now why was that?

So, apparently, instead of enforcing the border the only alternative is to set up large (humane) holding areas along the border where border-crossers are held until a decision is made to admit them or to deport them?

Does the "before you leave for Phoenix" imply open borders for all except those carrying cholera, trachoma, AIDS, etc.?

"I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!” -- Dennis

Given the choice, yes, take the wheat. We still haven't figured out what to do with the chaff that's already here...

I'm certainly in favor of bringing in immigrants. On principle, in fact: I haven't got a pool to clean or a lawn to cut like the plutocrats who want open borders to break unions and impoverish the working classes.No, I think we need people to come here and it's a kind thing to do to work with people who do come here.But unregulated immigration? Unless Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Baja, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon agree to be the 51st through 56th stars in the US flag people are going to have to line up and follow the rules instead of scaling the fence. Anything else is an insult to the good people who do things legally.

I'm thinking one or two more posts before you become another example of Godwin's Law.

Yup, almost there.

Ever since you wrote "..controlling the population of disfavoured ethnic groups..." I've been waiting for you to fulfill your Godwin's Law destiny.

Accusations of racism aren't Godwin's Law level yet, I'll give you that.

So we're in agreement.

A joke, perhaps, but now, 66 years after the death of Stalin, 183 years after the massacre at the Alamo and 18 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks we're faced with "The Squad" the new face of the Democratic Party is a Massachusetts socialist, a descendant of the Conquistadores and two Muslims!

Indeed!

Really? What do you think it says?

Maybe someone with the charisma of Jack Kennedy and the ability of Lyndon Johnson?