So did I, as I explained to someone else just a ltitle earlier. Sorry for not making my earlier post clearer.
The point was, if someone were actually caught crossing the border illegally, being a citizen would make a legitimate difference. Being a natural born citizen or a veteran should not make a difference.
Who says he did? All it says was that he served in the military. Serving in the military and “serving the citizens” is not the same thing. There is absolutely no reason to believe that he is somehow more virtuous or less likely to break laws than a doctor, a retired border patrol agent, a telephone sanitizer or a hairdresser.
The idea that serving in the military is a sign of moral superiority is an extremely dangerous, toxic idea also known as militarism. It keeps the powers that be well-supplied with volunteers for the troops and shields them from criticism… after all, it’s a lot harder to criticize the latest war when you need to avoid being seen as ungrateful towards the Brave Heroes who Defend Your Freedom.
Unfortunately, there is a shared delusion that Americans should not give up hope. That they should refuse to give up on their country. They convince themselves that they can “back off from the totalitarian precipice”, as you have so poignantly described that vision. But it is physically impossible to “back off” because you have not noticed that you are now looking at the precipice from the underside. You have achieved terminal velocity and are in free fall. I’m sorry to tell you that you went over the edge a long time ago without realizing it, and aren’t about to slow down now. If you’re lucky you can survive hitting bottom by landing miraculously on a giant whoopie cushion floating on open water, manage to swim and scramble to the bottom of the cliff somehow, and begin a long and difficult climb back up with a faint hope of eventually, after several generations, arriving back at the top. Hopefully racial memory will guide your descendants (like Moses you’ll never see this yourself) to recognize the danger signs posted along the edge of the buffalo jump before it’s too late to have to do this all over again.
I cross the border several times a summer, because I don’t use a gps when I canoe camp in the border lakes. Thankfully no evil doers seem to think a few days of canoe camping is worth the effort or I’m sure the BWCAW would be ruined.
Depends on the country of origin. Some countries are easier than others.
You do need to have an offer of acceptance from a Canadian university first tho.
