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I find your argument quite flawed. Have you asked yourself why people immigrate? It is often to have or provide a higher quality of life to the people they care
by Gpetrium 7y ago
I find your argument quite flawed. Have you asked yourself why people immigrate? It is often to have or provide a higher quality of life to the people they care about. It is not about where you were born.
People and countries often make choices, some choices allows them to prosper while others don't. Think of Venezuela for example, the people chose to vote for a populist government and the government's decisions destroyed their economy. The individual living there now has to make a decision to stay and whether the storm or to leave in search of a better life. Is it the fault of Colombia, Brazil, Canada, US, Mexico that Venezuelans are looking for a higher quality of life? Is it the fault of these Colombia,et al that they look to find a way to sell it to their people that they should accept migrants? Although this is an extreme case, it puts things into perspective since you can do the same exercise for famines, wars, etc at different scales and different times in history.
On another point, some countries and families are dependent on remittance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance) to support their policies/themselves.