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So, why do you want to keep the substandard immigrants out and substandard citizens in, if it's not about satisfying the definitions?

• sokoloff 3y ago
  It’s a policy choice. I believe that people born in a country have a 100% right to live in that country while someone not born there does not have that same right. We happen to call the former group “citizens” and there are other paths to citizenship in most countries, but that word is merely a shorthand for “a person with a non-revocable right to live in a country”. If you change citizen to mean something else or change non-citizen to mean that, new words will emerge to mean specifically the difference in that right and we’ll switch to using that word. Separately, the decision of whom to extend the privilege of entry or working to non-citizens is based on whom the population (in democracies) thinks will make the country better. If you’re picking your team to compete on a global stage, why wouldn’t you allow the brightest and most educated to come join your team? You appear to disagree on my initial premise that people born somewhere have more rights to be there than others who weren’t. I respect your right to hold your opinion. I also reserve my right to hold my opinion.
  • mrtksn 3y ago
    This is yet another "it is the way it is because it is the way it is" argument. I will leave it here.
    • sokoloff 3y ago
      It is the way it is because it is the way the citizens of countries want it to be. That’s unsurprising that that would be stable over long periods of time.