Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > But immigration laws are a pretty terrible mess the world over, from > what I've seen, and I wish countries could drop the whole "but we have > to protect ourselves from foreigners" thing. At some point, those > "foreigners" become "citizens", and just as worthy of your protection > as those who were born here - why fight them off for a while before > you welcome them?
There's a strong racist undercurrent there for sure, but it's not the whole story. You need to put some impedance to uncontrolled immigration. A functional, enlightened, prosperous democracy is a very recent historical anomaly. You don't want to jeopardize it naïvely. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
