Allanea wrote:Official Message from the United States Department of State
Yet again, silliness abroad. We in the United States had long been limiting immigration to those few and proud that we choose to accept into our borders. The United States has a harsh cap on all immigration, and illegal immigrants are dealt with harshly. Illegally crossing our borders is a felony crime, and any citizen is authorized to perform an arrest of an illegal border-crosser, while Border Patrol personnel are authorized to use weaponry if needed.
And yet nobody calls us “racist”, as the Animarnians have insulted Mr. Griffin, nobody mails us eggs, or anything like that. We wonder why this is. Oh... we know. Because the world community is a bunch of hypocrites who enjoy picking on a small nation. That tiny thing.
To: Office of the (OOC: Secretary?) of State, the United States of Allanea
From: Office of the Minister for Foreign Relations, Salzland
CC: Nations of the World
Dear Sir, (OOC: Or Madam, please substitute as is applicable)
Having recently been made aware of your statements regarding BNP Britain's treatment of its 'illegal immigrant' population, I feel that I must clarify the position of the Armed Republic as far as the issue is concerned. The Armed Republic does not freely tolerate illegal immigration, just as your great nation does not. Those who break the laws of the Armed Republic must face its justice system, as we feel would be the case in any civilized nation. Sentences, as defined by the Congress of the Armed Republic, are lawfully applied by judges should 'guilty' verdicts be returned by juries in free and fair immigration hearings. I trust that a similar, though by no means is it necessarily identical, system is used to enforce immigration law in the United States of Allanea.
Where the Armed Republic, and most other nations, find fault with the nation of BNP Britain, however, is in how its "immigration" law is applied. From what intelligence reports and public BNP Britain broadcasts we have received indicate, those condemned as 'illegal immigrants' are presented with scripted show trials where the outcomes are pre-determined, as are typical for totalitarian regimes, and summarily executed. In many instances, these individuals are murdered via the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, notable chemical weapons and nerve agents. Whatever immigration policy the United States of Allanea follows, I am certain that it does not include the wholesale slaughter of individuals who face judge, jury and executioner over a span of time measured in mere minutes. We are additionally certain that violating Allanean immigration law is not a capital offense, as your own recent public statement strongly implies, with its clear declaration of immigration crimes as a 'felony,' rather than 'capital' offense, with your law enforcement personnel and citizens authorized to 'arrest' and not 'summarily execute.' Nor do we believe that the United States of Allanea holds foreign nationals hostage or executes (or threaten to execute) foreign nationals, through the indiscriminate use of Weapons of Mass Destruction once again, as a legitimate means of implementing its domestic and foreign policy.
Should I be incorrect in my interpretations of how Allanean (and Salzland) immigration laws differ from the genocide of 'illegal immigrants' who are, for whatever reason, deemed to be state enemies by the despots in BNP Britain, and should it prove to be the case that Allanean immigration law provides for summary execution of offenders via the wholesale use of Weapons of Mass Destruction against unarmed civilians, then it is my duty on behalf of the Armed Republic of Salzland to fully condemn the United States of Allanea for conducting human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. In the mean time, however, the Armed Republic remains fully in support of those nations who see fit to take whatever economic, political or, if necessary, military actions they deem necessary to halt the state-sponsored murders being conducted in BNP Britain, as well as taking whatever steps are necessary to prevent that nation, and any of its 'allies,' from propagating or using Weapons of Mass Destruction against unarmed civilian populations in acts of ongoing genocide.
Signed,
J. Marcus Davis
Minister for Foreign Relations