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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: It Cant Happen Here
Message-ID: <1336@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 13:59:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 13:59:25 1985
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>        Since when is it permissable for anybody, or any group of
>people, (including any church) to violate the immigration laws of
>the United States by illegally smuggling in aliens?  In point of fact,
>the government used proper enforcement techniques to verify the crime
>and provide information leading to arrests under federal law.
>
>        Religions and their believers are not and never have been,
>above the law.
>
>        Groups who wish immigration laws changed should write their
>congressmen, not break the law by smuggling in people from Central
>America (or anywhere else).  And besides, what the hell do they
>think they're changing by smuggling in a few hundred people anyway?
>
>                                                -JCP-

Sounds very like the arguments about people trying to help the Jews
fleeing from Nazi Germany in the late 30's.  They, too, were legally
kept out of many Western countries, as we are now finding out.  Canada
was a particularly bad example, but not the only one.

(It's a bit late to note this, but Canadian readers might like to
watch "Charlie Grant's War" on CBC tonight at 8:00).
-- 

Martin Taylor
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