Yeah, that was my attempt to bury the object of the writing. I even used lowercase because I didn't want people to scan ahead.
The thing about immigration law or anti-immigrant sentiment is that most people don't think it could ever apply to them. And then when it does, it's a rude awakening. Americans don't even get the fact that one of the major reasons the United States is so strong is because of open borders. We had 13 separate countries, or states, that decided to make a federation, and to invite in more states. South Carolina had very little in common with Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, but they ended up making a vast area with free trade and open borders together. Were it not law that we mutually recognize citizenship, people would have been out on the border with guns to keep the Okies out. And yet the consequences were not all that bad.
The thing about immigration law or anti-immigrant sentiment is that most people don't think it could ever apply to them. And then when it does, it's a rude awakening. Americans don't even get the fact that one of the major reasons the United States is so strong is because of open borders. We had 13 separate countries, or states, that decided to make a federation, and to invite in more states. South Carolina had very little in common with Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, but they ended up making a vast area with free trade and open borders together. Were it not law that we mutually recognize citizenship, people would have been out on the border with guns to keep the Okies out. And yet the consequences were not all that bad.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto