(November 16, 2016 at 1:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(November 16, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ^FNM, do you agree with this analysis? If we're equating slaves trying to escape slavery, to non refugee foreigners trying to get into the US, then there shouldn't be a regulated border at all.
I don't think TJ's actually drawing an exact equivalence, but rather, using the Underground Railroad as an example to illustrate her point about the difference between legal and ethical.
What I'm saying is that if it's just as unethical to not allow non refugee foreigners to walk right into a country willy nilly, as it is to turn away people trying to escape slavery, then we shouldn't regulate borders at all.
And from what I understand, FNM does agree that the border should be regulated.
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