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Do you believe that immigration happens in a vacuum? I.e. the reason people immigrate is because they believe that going to location y is better that staying at
by claytongulick 7y ago
Do you believe that immigration happens in a vacuum? I.e. the reason people immigrate is because they believe that going to location y is better that staying at location x.
Providing free housing, medical, school, etc... is a huge incentive.
This is why we try to control immigration, we simply don't have the resources to provide a safety net to everyone.
- Krasnol 7y agoIt's not like "everyone" is on the move to Finland. Never was and never will be. It's a strawman and unnecessary dramatisation to justify inhuman behaviour. In this case: what do you want to do with them instead? Let them die on the streets? Did you even read the article? They are being provided with some kind of housing and support already like human beings deserve. Giving them a place to live, gives them also a chance to become a proper member of the society who also ads to it and can provide for other homeless. For further reading regarding the "Pull Factors Myth" take this for example: https://www.ecre.org/op-ed-pull-factors-the-myth-that-never-dies/ https://www.ecre.org/op-ed-pull-factors-the-myth-that-never-...