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Note: despite my conspiracy-like talk, I do believe the migrant waves existed. But they were multiple different migrant waves, with different root causes. Vene
by dragontamer 3y ago
Note: despite my conspiracy-like talk, I do believe the migrant waves existed.
But they were multiple different migrant waves, with different root causes. Venezuela has been a disaster for the last decade but things have really taken a turn for the worse in recent years. Honduras had the 2017 Election issue (and is why during Trump's time, a lot of migrants were coming in from there). Etc. etc.
We need to treat the migrant waves as *people*, each with different sets of problems and root causes. In many cases, different migrant waves speak completely different languages (fortunately most of Central/South America are Spanish and Portuguese... but there's a lot of Native American migrants who have unique languages causing issues)
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Its clear that its just a political football though. Its just a talking point, without anyone actually seriously considering the actual problem or the nature of it. I think that's what frustrates me the most.