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Message: [QUOTE="Danoff, post: 11914574, member: 8497"] Very recently it came to my attention that immigration is a human rights issue. Call me dumb, but this concept never occurred to me. If a citizen of mexico wants to come live in the US, and he does so without initiating force against another human being (such as via trespass on private property), then that illegal immigration is a victimless crime. There is no basis upon which to declare this illegal. I can see some pragmatic considerations where a government may want the opportunity to gather evidence as to whether this person intends to commit rights violations, or has a history of doing so in their country of origin, but, fundamentally, no government can deny someone with human rights from entering peacefully into their country without initiating force against that person and thereby violating their rights. [/QUOTE]