When you see the immigration system up close, you're confronted with its bottomless unfairness. --Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today:--Michael Smith
"When you see the immigration system up close, you're confronted with its bottomless unfairness.
The system assumes that people born outside our borders are less deserving of basic rights than those inside.
My native-born American friends did not seem to me to warrant any more dignity than my South African ones; according to this nations founding documents, we were all created equal.
Yet by mere accident of geography, some were given freedom, and others were denied it.
If people outside America's borders are as "deserving of basic rights [as] those inside", then let them do the things Americans have historically done to earn it.
This statement is patently offensive - "Yet by mere accident of geography, some were given freedom, and others were denied it."
Geography has nothing to do with it and no country in the world has ever been "given" freedom.
America fought a war of revolution in 1776, fought off the British who didn't get the message in 1812 and then fought a bloody civil war in 1861 to to correct its path and went to war in 1917 and again in 1941 to secure freedom for the world.
Nothing was given - only pasty, gender confused, effete poofters at the New York Times, who have benefited from the blood of others as they recline on their down filled fainting couches, think freedom is free.
"The [American] system assumes that people born outside our borders are less deserving of basic rights than those inside"
No it doesn't.
What it assumes is that what exists inside our borders is deserving of protection and defense from all enemies, foreign and domestic. 
America has no obligation to protect freedom for anyone but its own citizens. 
If "outside" people are truly deserving of freedom, let them create their own - America has proven it will help them do it.
This Times article argues for the complete devaluation of American citizenship. 
If the borders were opened and anyone crossing it becomes equal to the citizens here before them, there is no value in being a citizen. What they are proposing is nothing less than the end of America.