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Should our immigration system be set up to benefit us or as some sort of global charity-lottery?
by gotoeleven 6y ago
Should our immigration system be set up to benefit us or as some sort of global charity-lottery?
- sukilot 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- disposekinetics 6y agoSo you believe in rule by poem?
- netsharc 6y agoThis article is a nice argument against your view: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-un... One quote: > Civilised people don’t ask for resumes when answering calls from the edge of a grave. It shouldn’t matter what I did after I cleaned myself off and threw away the last of my asylum-seeking clothes. My accomplishments should belong only to me. There should be no question of earning my place, of showing that I was a good bet. My family and I were once humans in danger, and we knocked on the doors of every embassy we came across: the UK, America, Australia, Italy. America answered and so, decades later, I still feel a need to bow down to airport immigration officers simply for saying “Welcome home”. > But what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. It is your duty to answer us, even if we don’t give you sugary success stories. Even if we remain a bunch of ordinary Iranians, sometimes bitter or confused. Even if the country gets overcrowded and you have to give up your luxuries, and we set up ugly little lives around the corner, marring your view. If we need a lot of help and local services, if your taxes rise and your street begins to look and feel strange and everything smells like turmeric and tamarind paste, and your favourite shop is replaced by a halal butcher, your schoolyard chatter becoming ching-chongese and phlegmy “kh”s and “gh”s, and even if, after all that, we don’t spend the rest of our days in grateful ecstasy, atoning for our need.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoIt is not america's job to rescue the rest of the world.
- rbanffy 6y agoIt should then probably try to refrain from "liberating" other countries or sponsoring coups that install authoritarian but cooperative governments.
- netsharc 6y agoIt's not just up to America, it's up to every country in the world, and actually every person in the world, to make sure others are safe. Your sentence can be translated to "It is not my job to rescue other people.". I suppose the "must" in my 1st paragraph isn't really a must, but how does one call himself human if someone is dying and one thinks "Whatever, not my job...".
- shiftpgdn 6y agoBecause it is irrational to try to save the world. You put your family (tribe) first and then do your best beyond that. Can I send 30 illiterate african villagers to come live in your house? That's the ratio that'd be required if we were going to try to save everyone.