2.20.2008 immigration

UK home secretary outlines new immigration policy proposals.

Hmm.

Know any immigrants?

How about me.

Josh, Don, Byron, and three-quarters of the high tech workers and research scientists I know.

Jean, Barbara, Peter, Hong-Seok, and most of the professional academics of my acquaintance.

Children and the elderly charged more? Parents punished if children commit crimes?

This is not the vision of a society I want to live in, or a government I would support if I had the right to vote.

Making a distinction between asylum seekers, migrant workers, and professionals is both reprehensible and a logical fallacy - any one of us could make a fortune or end up in a coma. We all pay taxes.

The only real difference between the groups is that those of us with resources can elect to live elsewhere - and obviously, we choose according to the standard of life. The main advantage of the UK is equality of access to the social safety network.

I don't know anyone who moved to this country for the food.

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