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JD Roy@vextaur I've always been a big believer in open borders, globally if possible, but at the very least the US can lead on this issue. The implication of the 14th amendment is that everyone who comes here shouldn't have to worry if their children will be welcome in their new home. I personally think naturalization should be open to any court in the country and should be extremely generous with indefinite visas for the unnaturalized.
@jdroy I'm largely the same, with how long we've been aware of how porous the border is, it seems to me that sealing off the border is either impossible or unwanted, and I suspect the latter as illegal immigrants are a great source of exploitable labor, and businesses are always looking for cheap labor.
With that in mind, at the very least, let everyone in, let them know their rights and who to call if'n those rights are violated, that'll fix the exploitation real fast. Now being citizens... Honestly I don't think that needs to be guaranteed, nor required, non-citizens might get less services from the government, but they're still human and deserve to be treated as such.
@vextaur Ideally, I'd like to see which nation you belong to as largely unimportant. Nobody is deporting Ohioans when we move to Florida. I'd like to see a global world with some kind of EU-like agreement so everyone can just live wherever they want. It probably won't work. Probably won't happen in my lifetime, but as a species we need to stop bombing each other over minor disagreements and learn to live at peace with everyone.
@jdroy Mostly won't happen as long as capitalism exists, borders allow them to turn people against each other, that and make exploitation easier.
@vextaur I think it's not just the border. People keep claiming the US government disappears anti-gravity researchers so they can work on crashed alien technology. I pretty much think it's all a smokescreen and they're just silencing anyone who invents tech that threatens the oil/coal industry.
If we'd have hit the ground running in 1880 and actually used our minds to automate the economy, we'd be living in Star Trek right now. You can call that a commie idea, but I think it sounds like heaven.
@jdroy Nah, I'm pretty open to the idea, I've little doubt that capitalists have been holding us back in the name of profit and resistance to change, borders are for people, so many other things are to stomp out ideas.