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From: jah@philabs.UUCP (Julie Harazduk)
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Subject: Re: Unlimited immigration? I don't think so...
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 09:16:27 EDT
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 good enough for me.
The thing is, these people are led to believe that they are leaving oppression
behind.  Well, in many cases, they are not.

	We already have "a lot (alot)" of quotas set up for all the countries, and
it is much easier for the educated to get in than the illiterate.  Only under
extreme circumstances do we have such influxes of illiterate immigrants.  And
the decision to let them in is made higher up than the immigration dept.

	But in reply to your hand-waving off American ideals...I think your dead
wrong.  This country "was" set up to uphold the rights of individuals, to
protect them etc.  When has isolationism ever payed off?  We can't let every-
one in haphazardly, because there is enough of a population problem here caus-
ing other problems like housing shortages and job shortages.  But we can't sit
by and watch people be criminally oppressed.  

	We have to weigh out each situation in its own light.  And I think that
is basically what we do.  I don't always trust the motives of our *great* :)
leaders but the right thing has often (in the past) been done for the wrong
reasons.


														julie (philabs!jah)