Can someone explain the logic behind immigration laws to me?

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• Imipolex G

  2016-02-01 18:45:07

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  How do we know they're law-abiding?
  
• Tre

  2016-02-01 18:47:03

  
  

  I'd chalk up hard immigration law to the fact that othering is alive and well in the modern age, especially (and ironically) in America
• Princess Alice

  2016-02-01 18:59:01

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Imipolex G said:

  How do we know they're law-abiding?
  

  Background checks?
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-02-01 18:59:50

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  To be fair, while I would like us to have broader asylum laws and decidedly less stringent immigration laws, I think that not following up on just who it is that has entered the country can be a bit problematic. For instance, do we really want people like that crazy Cuban terrorist who blew up a plane hiding here to avoid Castro? No, I'd rather not. Granted, Republicans are perfectly happy to let that guy stay here and kick out Guatemalan children fleeing gang violence, so...
• Anonus

  2016-02-01 23:28:52

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Tre said:

  I'd chalk up hard immigration law to the fact that othering is alive and well in the modern age, especially (and ironically) in America

  yup

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  To be fair, while I would like us to have broader asylum laws and decidedly less stringent immigration laws, I think that not following up on just who it is that has entered the country can be a bit problematic. For instance, do we really want people like that crazy Cuban terrorist who blew up a plane hiding here to avoid Castro? No, I'd rather not. Granted, Republicans are perfectly happy to let that guy stay here and kick out Guatemalan children fleeing gang violence, so...

  well Centie did say "law-abiding"...
• Klinotaxis

  2016-02-01 23:34:19

  kill living beings
  

  if nothing else, changing residency is pretty intrinsically complicated; you're saying "okay, i was subject to these laws and registered in these bureaucracies, and now i want to be subject to these other laws and registered in these other bureaucracies".
  
• Calica

  2016-02-01 23:38:17

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  people have strong, dumb ideas about the purity and strength of nations