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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Think Germany, late 1930s. The rhetoric is distressingly similar.[/quote]

No.  It is not.  Not everything can be equated to Nazi Germany any more than everything can be equated to racism.  You do yourself and your position a disservice by trying to tie unrelated issues together to inflame and incite.  [/quote]

I know it's uncomfortable for you to think so, but take a step back and look at it dispassionately.  There is a stark similarity in both the cirsumstances and the thetoric.  An economy in distress, and a small subgroup being blamed for that distress.  Read back just on this thread - illegals cause the healthcare crisis because they drain the system, they steal jobs from real Americans, etc.  They're dragging this country down.  They should all be put in jail.

It's obviously not an exact parallel - no one could argue that illegals control the global banking system, for example.  For the sake of argument, I'll even accept that there's not a racial component to it (although there's a wealth of circumstantial evidence that strongly supports an ugly racial undertone to current immigration rhetoric).  But the basic theory is the same - a small subgroup of people being blamed for all the ills in the economy and in society.  If only they weren't here, everything would be all better.

Again, I realize it's an uncomfortable thought.  But I don't believe that you can reread this thread (which is a fairly mild-mannered discussion of the topic) and honestly say that the similarities don't exist.  They're pretty blatant.  [/quote]

I'm against illegal aliens, but I don't want them jailed. However, we need to ramp up deportations and most of all, [b][u]protect our borders better[/u][/b].

I'm all for law officials checking immigration status while in the progress of routine stops, etc. Parents of children being enrolled in school should have to produce identification that confirms their US status, adults seeking medical treatment should have to provide valid proof of citizenship, etc. When they fail these tests, hold them and have them deported. It's a slow system, but one thing I've learned is that when illegals see that there is a concentrated effort to crack down, they scurry away to more lenient states. If no states were lenient, where would they scurry? Hopefully home. [/quote]

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