I do wonder aobut this. I'm no Ashcroft fan, and encourage the INS to take in those seeking shelter from abuse and cruelty, etc. But there has to be some limit on imimigration and asylum, doesn't there? We can't take on the whole world's wretched, huddled masses.
I guess we already have numerical limits in place, but how do those work? Do we just start turning people away after the one ten thousandth customer, no matter how bad their situation?
Sure, there has to be a limit--we can't just take in the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Well, not all of them. (Well, we could, if there were less of a huddled masses differential between the world's nations. But that's for another time.)
But, limits or no, we do give people shelter from abuse and cruelty. The question on the table is whether intense abuse, repeated rape, and governmental indifference to these crimes are sufficient abuse and cruelty.
The Amnesty International action appeal (http://www.amnestyusa.org/action/women_01222002.html) is a reasonable place to start reading.
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Date: 2003-03-04 01:57 pm (UTC)I guess we already have numerical limits in place, but how do those work? Do we just start turning people away after the one ten thousandth customer, no matter how bad their situation?
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Date: 2003-03-04 11:23 pm (UTC)But, limits or no, we do give people shelter from abuse and cruelty. The question on the table is whether intense abuse, repeated rape, and governmental indifference to these crimes are sufficient abuse and cruelty.
The Amnesty International action appeal (http://www.amnestyusa.org/action/women_01222002.html) is a reasonable place to start reading.
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Date: 2003-03-04 11:28 pm (UTC)Sorry, I got halfway through that message and I started wondering what my point was. Sorry.
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Date: 2003-03-05 02:24 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-03-05 03:07 pm (UTC)Read it, even used the form linked to at the end.