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Re: "The Migrant Situation is Insane"
Seems like a level-headed take. I don't blame individuals for making the decision to emigrate illegally if they need to. I know if I had to decide between observing the law and keeping my family safe I'd obviously choose the latter. But who looks at this situation, globally, and thinks it's a good thing? Why doesn't anybody look into WHY things are this way? Things are fucked if so many people feel they need to emigrate to other countries in the first place.
Feb 02 · 3 months ago
The only people benefiting from the way the current situation is are US companies who want to exploit people for cheap labor and the drug cartels who rape and extort the migrants and control the whole border.
The US needs to help end the instability it caused and take back the border from the cartels, by force with Mexico’s permission (which would be easy to get). Then we need compassionate and humanistic policies for asylum seekers so they can enter the country legally.
None of this is a solution to what to do with all of these people once they’re here, there’s no good answer to that. Try to get them employed as a first step I guess.
The Migrant Situation is Insane — Things are really crazy: Texas is blocking the border, the Feds are trying to come in and break the barricades and allow illegal immigrants in. Tens of thoushands of truckers from all states and even Canada are coming in to form a massive convoy to protest. The migrants are moving to the California border, where no one is stopping them. There are hundreds of thousands of people coming in. Previously Texas would load up buses and send them to New York City,...