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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how she's crazy. She's right. How are you going to accept a giant copper statue, place it at what was considered at the time to be the entrance to our country, which all immagrants would see, and then put a plaque on it that says:

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

How are you going to do all that, then kill the inhabitants of this land, and then call Mexicans (which owned like 1/3rd of the land now called America) illegal?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

So you're saying the US literally is not allowed to have any immigration laws?

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Better countries have proven they do not need to be the way they are. The EU Shengen area let the policies of the era of empires and kingdoms fall away while preseving a countries identity. The current US system can be described as "cruel by design" and needs to be removed and its facilitators barred from civil service.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"So you're saying that the people who stole the land and murdered the inhabitants can't tell other people they can't come onto stolen land??"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. I don't agree with that. I think it's quite reasonable that the country that now exists can have laws governing intake of people.

What other options are there?

I get the vibe. But give me one reasonable alternative.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

You act like the people that were here before didn't have laws or society or ways of dealing with outsiders, and that's pretty fucking gross of you