>>>Hi Mike, nice to see you too. Hope you're also well! :-)
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>>>I don't advocate banning all forms of immigration. I was just exploring the possibility. I don't wish this to happen, but if it did, it's what the government (and by definition, the majority) here wants. It's not a tragedy,
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>>FWIW, when the US had an extremely restrictive immigration policy in the 1930's, it was, in fact, a tragedy and contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands (including some of my ancestors and, I suspect, some of yours).
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>I'm not sure I'm interpreting what you said correctly, but it looks like you're saying the US is directly complicit in mass murder.

I wouldn't say "directly complicit," but by its policies, failed to prevent their deaths. The Nazis succeeded in killing so many in part because other countries wouldn't admit the Jews and others.

Tamar