Comments on: Wanted: Honesty of Purpose http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/wanted_honesty_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/wanted_honesty_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3673 Matt Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:31:48 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/wanted_honesty_.html#comment-3673 <p>OK, I'm up to the challenge.</p> <p>I want border security. But that does _not_ mean that I'm against greatly liberalizing the criteria for legal immigration to the United States. Indeed, anyone wishing to come here for legitimate and lawful purposes, including productive work, should be able to do so. Just as long as they can pass a check sufficiently thorough to keep out our actual enemies.</p> <p>If people who SHOULD have nothing to hide, ACTUALLY had nothing to hide, we'd have a much easier time seperating them from the folks who genuinely intend this country serious harm.</p> OK, I’m up to the challenge.

I want border security. But that does _not_ mean that I’m against greatly liberalizing the criteria for legal immigration to the United States. Indeed, anyone wishing to come here for legitimate and lawful purposes, including productive work, should be able to do so. Just as long as they can pass a check sufficiently thorough to keep out our actual enemies.

If people who SHOULD have nothing to hide, ACTUALLY had nothing to hide, we’d have a much easier time seperating them from the folks who genuinely intend this country serious harm.

]]> By: Frank Ch. Eigler http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/09/wanted_honesty_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3672 Frank Ch. Eigler Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:56:43 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/09/wanted_honesty_.html#comment-3672 <p>A lot of pollution other than mexican poor come across the southern border: criminals, drugs, and yes, the occasional saudi. Point taken about the possibly tenuous connection between terrorism and a porous border, but that only goes so far. After all, you can't possibly know the full spectrum of traffic that goes back and forth, by definition. Tightening up entries via airports may logically turn foreign nasties to other ways of entering the states.</p> <p>Anyway, realize that as much as you dislike the "border/terrorism" coupling, your "poverty/work/currently illegal" one is just as pink-glassed and thus offensive. It imagines away all the problems and paints the opponents as just wanting to hurt people.</p> A lot of pollution other than mexican poor come across the southern border: criminals, drugs, and yes, the occasional saudi. Point taken about the possibly tenuous connection between terrorism and a porous border, but that only goes so far. After all, you can’t possibly know the full spectrum of traffic that goes back and forth, by definition. Tightening up entries via airports may logically turn foreign nasties to other ways of entering the states.

Anyway, realize that as much as you dislike the “border/terrorism” coupling, your “poverty/work/currently illegal” one is just as pink-glassed and thus offensive. It imagines away all the problems and paints the opponents as just wanting to hurt people.

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