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Do you feel at all that you might just be contributing to fear mongering and the media over reaction to the level of danger or non-danger the general public is in? I mean this as a serious question and not intended to be argumentative. I always get a bit concerned when research like yours gets a lot of media attention. It's like the big kerfluffle over 3d printed guns, anyone with access to the internet and a local hardware store can make very lethal projectile weapons without much prior knowledge or money and no need for a 3d printer. Politicians use this kind of thing to assert more control with little demonstrated effect on our safety.

With that said I still find what you are doing very interesting and do not mean to be discouraging.

I'm trying to figure out how to ask this question, because I'm behind you. I believe we need to be more welcoming to immigration and create a simple and common sense path to be vetted for citizenship. At the same time, this an opinion formed by compassion, not fairness or logic.

Seeing it from the other side, there are many native born people who feel, how ever misguided they may be, that immigration is a drain on our economy and their well being and that we need to take care of our own first. This perspective, while selfish, does have a logical basis.

These people believe you feel entitled to citizenship, they believe you are not. So all compassion aside, why do you feel you are entitled to citizenship when we have laws that were not followed in your immigrating here?

I'm not against your position, i'm very much for it, I just have a hard time making the case with the people who think you don't belong here. Because my only position is that I believe, out of compassion for others, that we should be more welcoming. This is not a very strong counter position.

Thanks for putting yourself out there.