On top of everything there's the @rcs1000 point that these guys are only 5-10% of the problem anyway, the rest being legal enterers/overstayers. So you could spend an awful lot tackling the problem, … (View Post)

Think of it as a Potemkin policy. (View Post)

And nothing more disappointing than having one obscured by thin cloud cover (Devon 1999). (View Post)

Strong point. I can imagine you at Los Alamos, 1944: Hur hur hur I have heard so much of this "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" bullshit, I'm immune to it. (View Post)

I remember in my very early teens reading an ?Azimov story in which 1. Our hero's spaceship returns from hyper- to normal space in orbit round an extra-solar planet and 2. the hero takes a device out… (View Post)