Hoping over a border illegally is slavery??
Good grief get some perspective.
There's not a country on earth that doesn't have tight immigration laws, not even the western European "utopias" that the American left seems to think every country should aspire to.
In France you can be arrested for even helping an illegal immigrant http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29899231/
In the Netherlands:
"Who can ask for ID?
The police, immigration and customs officials, tax officials, forest rangers, labour and environmental inspectors have the authority to ask to see your identification documents."
Looks an awful like the law that Arizona just passed. Where was the condemnation and international outcry against the Dutch?
Where is the faux outrage directed at Western Europes "Nazi" attitudes towards illegal immigrants?
Arizonas laws are on balance about the same as most western countries regarding immigrants. Most western countries won't let *half* the people that the US lets in. Germany won't even let you in unless you have a "purpose" for being there, just wanting to live there isn't even *nearly* enough reason for them to give you a visa. Unless you already hold a job there and are being sponsored (hmm sounds familiar) or have family there don't even apply.
Just like everywhere else on the planet.
The Mexican government condemns Arizona, when Mexicos laws state:
#A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)"
And they want to talk about "Nazi" attitudes towards illegal immigrants?
It's all nothing but the most absurd and disgusting two minutes of hate toward a traditionally conservative state for doing something that even the most left wing European states also do.
The double think is breathtaking in it's depth.
Can we get some perspective on this insanity?