[quote=spdrun]I can’t speak for FlyerInHI, but as far as inviting immigrants to join me, I guess you’re saying the country is a metaphor for a house —

(1) My concept of personal space doesn’t extend that far
(2) My government doesn’t often speak for me. I’m intelligent enough to realize that the fact that THEY don’t invite someone to my country doesn’t automagically make them a “bad” person. Just a person who (by accident of birth) wasn’t born in the US, and didn’t go through a lot of bullshit bureaucracy to come here. They have no more or less natural right to be anywhere in the world than you or I. I don’t feel nationalism or American exceptionalism strongly.[/quote]

There’s nothing particular naturally about national borders. But they are real. You probably don’t have a natural right to be anywhere on the globe absent plane travel, a heavily regulated industry subject to various national rules.