Reply #168: You win the Kewpie Doll.

[alwynsw]

I'm sorry you're so terribly misinformed.

Fact: This is a U.S. based and hosted discussion board.

Fact: This topic of this thread is illegal immigration into the U.S.

Fact: "The great white north" is a phrase commonly used in the U.S. to refer to Canada.

Fact: "... the Minuteman Project doesn't seem concerned in the least with anyone illegally crossing the border to the great white north." by structure, context, and implication refers to somewhere other than the U.S. On may reasonably conclude that the phrase refers to Canada because "crossing the border to" (It's meaning would be clearer had the writer used into rather than to.) implies leaving one place for another. Since:

A) According to the project in question and the discussion in this thread, the concern is illegal immigration form Mexico to the U.S. and the writer implies no concern for a different crossing, he must be referring to U.S. - Canadian issues since the U.S has only two borders that lend themselves to illegal crossings without the aid of boats, airplanes, or other conveyance not readily available to many. Crossing into countries other than Mexico or Canada also invilves venturing into international waters, be they frozen or liquid.

B) Assuming the establishment that Canada is "the great white north" (you may Gogle to your heart's content to verify the veracity of that issue.), thewriter could only have been referring to immigration from the U.S. into Canada.


Incidentally; I understood your sentence quite well. Notwithstanding my comprension of it, it remains one of the most convoluted sentences I have ever read.