(06-07-2019, 04:49 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(06-07-2019, 11:33 AM)mikesez Wrote: I agree that the distinction between "active" and "passive" is not always clear.
But detaining people is clearly active rather than passive. And failing to detain them is clearly passive.
Environmental or pollution concerns are more appropriately addressed with tariffs. If a country has lax environmental laws, that lowers their production costs, so an economic punishment makes sense.  I don't think we have to decide if environmental problems are active or passive to come to that conclusion.

Semantical arguments aside, shouldn't we be just a little bit ticked off that the Mexicans are letting people come through their country in order to cross the US border illegally?  I think I'm with Trump on this one.  The Mexican government needs to put a stop to this.  

Suppose there were millions of Chinese landing in Canada, and Canada didn't care because they knew all those Chinese were in Canada so they could walk across the US border?  And Canada was just letting them through?  Shouldn't we be a little bit urinated about that?

I think that's kind of a ridiculous hypothetical.
Canada would not be able to have any certainty about whether those Chinese people intended to stay or not.
And in any case, if we don't want people to cross to our side of the border, it is our job to stop them, not anybody else's. 
Are you making some kind of PP in our Coke joke, and I'm missing it?

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