Originally posted by airforce:
Can a nation exist with open borders? Why not? True, a certain percentage of the people coming here will be criminals, but that has always been the case. More than a few of our forefathers, mine included, got on the boat to America one step ahead of the law. An awful lot of people who trace their ancestry back to the Old Country get a pretty nasty shock. 
You mean like how the Brits used the American South (I think it was Georgia) and Australia as penal colonies? Our country's DNA is definately different.
