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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I hope you are being deliberately obtuse. The environment comparison was that in many global warming threads, conservatives state that the issue is being overblown and doesn't demand the resources thrown at it that environmentalists are asking for. I think THIS issue is being overblown. There are not 100 boats arriving on our shores every year.
In fiscal year 09-10 117 people-smuggling boats landed in Australia. THAT is a huge problem. One, says yes we should look at fixing the problem, but we shouldn't knee jerk to action. And I don't think we should be paying as much as Australia is for their system. We using a ballistic missile on a mosquito.
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You're the one being obtuse if you don't want to take this issue seriously until we do have 100+ ships landing at your shores ever year. You can't just bury your head in the sand and claim this isn't a problem. What the hell do you call overblown? 400 people might not seem like a lot, but that is easy for you to say considering you'll never have to deal with them, nor will you ever live in a community where they contribute to the crime rate because that is the only means they have at their disposal in order to survive.
We need to make sure there is a process in place to deal with this issue now, BEFORE it turns into some REALLY serious.
Your position reminds me so much of all the morons in the US who kept ignoring their illegal immigration problem. Now, when it becomes a serious issue, nobody knows how to deal with it. Send them back? Streamline their immigration policy? Absolutely nobody wants to deal with it, because now with 18 million of them, its far more precious of an issue, both politically, and economically. But if they would have had the foresight to realize the problem years ago, and made it easier for law-abiding immigrants coming across the border from Mexico to become legalized, they won't have the issues they have now.
As for your attempt at derailing the thread into an environmental debate, all I have to say is that the effect that global warming and many other environmental issues have on our entire planet are debatable. Hell, people were yelling and screaming about the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, and how the damage would be impossible to recover from, and yet nature seems to have come up with a mechanism on how to deal with the spilled oil. Sure, it still did some serious damage, but it wasn't even close to being as bad as some people, especially out to lunch environmentalists said it'll be.
That does not say that one should be 'green.' I support the green initiative. I just don't support destabilizing our economy over something we don't even properly understand yet.