Comments on: Hooray for US Immigration http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/2008/08/14/hooray-for-us-immigration/ Don't let serenity fool you. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vermyndax http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/2008/08/14/hooray-for-us-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Vermyndax Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:20:04 +0000 http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/?p=413#comment-238 Thanks cybermage, link corrected. Part of it is the stress that officers have to endure. When people come in to this country, they are judge, jury and executioner of the decision that affects an entire life... and that decision must be made in seconds. Regardless, some stories of officers who abuse this power come out - and those are the ones that really make me sad. Thanks cybermage, link corrected.

Part of it is the stress that officers have to endure. When people come in to this country, they are judge, jury and executioner of the decision that affects an entire life… and that decision must be made in seconds.

Regardless, some stories of officers who abuse this power come out – and those are the ones that really make me sad.

]]> By: cybermage http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/2008/08/14/hooray-for-us-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-237 cybermage Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:06:44 +0000 http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/?p=413#comment-237 I showed the NYT source article to a good friend of mine. His response? "We screw up, no doubt. It isn't policy, however, to ruin or violate someone's life." Just goes to show why things like this happen... apathy. That and if you aren't born in the US you're somehow less human. The same person will get violently animated when discussing the horrors our soldiers who are taken as prisoners undergo. I showed the NYT source article to a good friend of mine. His response? “We screw up, no doubt. It isn’t policy, however, to ruin or violate someone’s life.”

Just goes to show why things like this happen… apathy. That and if you aren’t born in the US you’re somehow less human.

The same person will get violently animated when discussing the horrors our soldiers who are taken as prisoners undergo.

]]> By: cybermage http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/2008/08/14/hooray-for-us-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-236 cybermage Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:41 +0000 http://galaxycow.com/blogs/vermyndax/?p=413#comment-236 Your link in the "Via" line to Boing Boing has a trailing slash after .html and fails. Your link in the “Via” line to Boing Boing has a trailing slash after .html and fails.

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