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"There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic—millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, a
by senderista 2y ago
"There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic—millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, at least, would not happen now."
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- soperj 2y agoMany countries took in a lot of refugees from both Ukraine and Syria. Syria used to take in refugees from all over the middle east. Canada alone approved over a million applications from Ukraine, numbers that have actually come are more in the 300,000 range.
- metabagel 2y agoBut, would that happen today? Trump has stated the intention to deport Ukrainian refugees.
- poncho_romero 2y agoTrump is not president in Canada (or Germany — see Syrian refugees). I hope this helps!
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoThere is a whole world outside of the USA.
- draw_down 2y ago[dead]
- PedroBatista 2y agoThe present could never be the past. Having said that, never in History there has been so much migration.
- hermitcrab 2y agoThere has been large scale migration throughout recorded history. Just look at the endless problems the Romans had with the migration of groups such as the Goths and the Vandals, who were themselves displaced by the Huns.
- rayiner 2y agoThere’s no famines going on anywhere in Latin America. Yet we had more immigrants to the U.S. last year than during the entire ten year period from Ireland during the great famine.
- Spooky23 2y agoYou might wonder why the state of affairs in Latin America drives people to hard lives in the US. A certain large country to the north had a policy of destabilizing economic, covert action and direct military action in place to save these nations from the horrors of socialism. When you build empire, there’s always a pull of your subjects to the center.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 2y ago> You’re correct. The American empire has been terrible for Latin America. We should dismantle the empire and close the borders to immigration. Do you realize that if the USA had been run the way you advocate that you'd never have lived there in the first place?
- rayiner 2y ago> Do you realize that if the USA had been run the way you advocate that you'd never have lived there in the first place? Of course! But I’m not a child and I’m capable of conceiving of what would be “good” separate and apart from what would be “good for me.” Indeed, as someone with a large south asian family that immigrated to the U.S./Canada/Australia, and who is especially well acquainted with Anglo-Protestant culture, I’m particularly well positioned to form the opinions that: (1) assimilation is slow and doesn’t happen completely; and (2) even high skill immigration, at scale, isn’t conducive to maintaining our american participatory democracy.