The Spanish government said on Thursday that it would deploy the army to Ceuta to reinforce security after the crossings, which saw many migrants swim around the border to reach the territory.

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    The difference is, most Americans themselves are descended from immigrants. We also don’t really laugh at the prevention of illegal immigration either when it is done sensibly.

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        Don’t you lot kidnap non whites off the street and if you’re wrong about their legality, punish them anyway for “resisting arrest”

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          what else are you supposed to do when things aren’t done properly? it’s just common sense. not racist. the migrant crisis in europe proves that, surely. i just love to look across the pond at some of their creative ideas for how to deal with people who just refuse to do things the right way. if only we also had a large sea we could just let them drown in, instead of having to spend so much money after they get here. clever stuff there from enlightened europe!

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            I have no issue with migrants, my issue is generally with people who try and bypass the immigration system for their own advantage. Often they tar the good name of legal migrants. We have a load of useful idiots here who seriously think that the only reason someone would attempt to enter Europe is because of war or danger. That isn’t the case.

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        I live in Northern Ireland. If I go back far enough, my ancestors are in Scotland. If I go back even further, they’re back in Ireland. It’s quite interesting.

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      Some ways are more sensible than others, but the whole concept of illegal immigration emerged from racists trying to maintain their racial purity so it’s fundamentally flawed from the get go.

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        It depends how you look at it. Generally people respect the autonomy of native americans. I think racial purity is stupid, but different cultures do have different social systems, more diverse than what we realise. Generally, integration is a good thing rather than a free-for-all.

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          Generally people respect the autonomy of native americans

          Uh… not really but sure? It’s not the native Americans that started controlling immigration; it was white Americans.

          but different cultures do have different social systems, more diverse than what we realise.

          And this, a complete non-issue for the vast majority of human history, suddenly became a massive problem just as developed countries were getting worried about lesser races compromising their racial purity. Yeah, right.

          Less sarcastically, what you’re presenting is one of multiple competing rebrandings for a system that is ultimately about racial purity. That’s how it started and it was never meaningfully reformed from there.

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            If the native americans controlled immigration and had the means to do so, they’d probably be in a better position.

            I’d rather if we’d stop drying to be disingenuous and bring race into the argument. If anything, the major factor is religion. Immigration between european societies isn’t such a big deal as they all generally follow or were at least raised in some flavour of Christianity. Meanwhile Islamic societies and Islam itself have different values when it comes to things such as the treatment of women, polygamy, etc, that there’s some form of integration that needs to happen for the two religions to coexist with each other. Same can go for any other religion essentially.

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              Immigration between european societies isn’t such a big deal as they all generally follow or were at least raised in some flavour of Christianity.

              Say, how’d that get there, anyway?

              The year 782 was a turning point. Charlemagne held another assembly at Lippespringe near Paderborn, where he likely introduced the infamous Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae – a harsh legal code demanding loyalty to the Frankish regime and Christianity under penalty of death.

              https://www.medieval.eu/carolingian-wars-in-saxony-772-804/

              Ain’t no hate like christian “love”.

              some form of integration that needs to happen for the two religions to coexist with each other. Same can go for any other religion essentially.

              You’re on the right track! Religion divides us, we are all better without it. Truth is not whatever you want it to be. Truth is truth, and we should all try not to distort it. Religion lets you pat yourself on the head for being wrong. It is a cancer that must go.

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                Truth is not whatever you want it to be. Truth is truth, and we should all try not to distort it.

                I agree, the truth is that Jesus of Nazareth is God and that we’d all be less divided if we would all accept facts over feelings and became Christian.

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                  Jesus of Nazareth is God

                  Demonstrate that god exists.

                  Then demonstrate that Jesus is god.

                  You can’t? THEN STOP FUCKING LYING.

                  The problem of evil disproves any god that is both loving and powerful.

                  Do you realize there is exactly as much evidence for Muhammad and allah as for your bullshit? Why don’t you believe the quran?

                  we’d all be less divided if we would all accept facts over feelings and became Christian.

                  Oh, okay. Sounds nice on paper, if you’re an idiot. But which denomination?

                  You seriously want to pretend “christian” means one thing? All it means is “I lie to get what I want.” The flavor of the lie is irrelevant. It is still dividing people, not uniting them.

                  A song for you, murderer: https://snoopsqueak.com/video/102

                  Fuck you for choosing death.

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                    Demonstrate that god exists. Demonstrate that Jesus is god.

                    1. Jesus, who claimed to be God, died by Crucifixion.
                    2. The disciples had experiences that they believed were appearances of a risen Jesus.
                    3. They were even willing to die for their first-hand claims
                    4. Resurrection was proclaimed very early (immediately after the cross).
                    5. James, Brother of Jesus, became a Christian.
                    6. Apostle Paul, used to be a persecutor of Christians, also believed.

                    Do you realize there is exactly as much evidence for Muhammad and allah as for your bullshit?

                    There isn’t. Mohammed is a proven liar.

                    Why don’t you believe the quran?

                    The Qur’an claims that the Bible is the word of God, yet explicitly contradicts it, such as claiming Jesus wasn’t God nor The Son of God, nor was He crucified. Muslims claim that the Bible has been corrupted, but the Qur’an claims that the word of God cannot be changed, and also refers to the Bible in present tense. We know for a fact that the Bible we have now is exactly the same as what they had in 7th century Arabia. Hence, Islam is false. This is known as the Islamic Dilemma.

                    Oh, okay. Sounds nice on paper, if you’re an idiot. But which denomination?

                    Doesn’t really matter. Denominations agree on 95% of things. Christians love each other regardless of denomination. It’s people who don’t truly believe what Jesus taught us and care more about power that really care about denominations. I have never actually met a Christian pastor who wanted me to change denomination. My Church invites preachers from different denominations. My family is divided among Christian denominations as well. We have zero issues with each other apart from some recreational debates which we both know won’t change each others minds, but it’s just a fun activity to open up scripture and present our points for why we believe in a certain minor thing and why. There’s a strawman where people think “they believe if they’re not in the same denomination they’re not going to heaven” it simply isn’t true. I truly believe that all of my Christian Brethren will be in heaven, whether they are Papist, Eastern, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, etc. One of us is probably more right than the other, but we’d just laugh about it.

                    At the same time, Atheism isn’t completely coherent either. It’s split between Anti theism, Agnostic Atheism, Agnosticism, and plain old “I believe God doesn’t exist” which I’ll just call pure Atheism. There’s also Humanism which believes in morality, and a moreso form of Nihilism which doesn’t (forgive me if I am not up to scratch with the terminology here, but my point still stands).

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              What happened to the Native Americans can be called “immigration” only as much as WWII can be described as “the Germans immigrated east.” This is a complete non-sequitur.