"Sheldon" > ha scritto nel messaggio news:a6002e55-c7af-

He's not saying the US is perfect, there is no perfect. All he's
saying is that of all the places available more people who are
escaping oppression choose the US first, in fact since its inception
they always have... the oppressed fleeing to America is hardly a
recent phenomena.

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If you all read something other than the local rag and Time or Newsweek
you'd know that all of Mediterranean Europe is being inundated with illegal
aliens. Services are being stretched to breaking point. Ships sink within
eyesight of Italian and Spanish shores as they struggle to get to a place
where they can make a few bucks to send home. They are being charged about
?1500 to get on a boat full of holes and drown. Most would like to get
farther north and are on coastal shores because that's as far as their money
goes. Germany is packed, France is packed, Italy is packed and Spain is
too. Steerage to America is a long time ago.
I have not heard anyone speak of America as a bastion of freedom for
decades. They want food and money. Free to die they can remain at home.