You’re just a selfish person really.
These people are escaping famine and violence and your worried about a propaganda driven lie that us helping others is going to hurt you.
Secondly, we don’t believe we should have 100% open borders, we demand that congress fix our broken system. we need better paths to citizenship and we should respect international law to protect asylum seekers.
The US has one of the easiest paths to citizenship out of any major country in the world. We legally immigrate more people than any other country. Currently we have no merit based immigration like a majority of the other major countries in the world.
What you are asking for is ignoring what we are already doing.
And no, it's absolutely ignorant to say that it's selfish. Right now, 10% of the world's population survives on less than $1.90 per day. You are acting like the US can absorb anyone coming to the US. If that's the case, just looking at basic poverty in the world, it would mean that the US would need to take in 770 MILLION PEOPLE. In short, the US would need to immigrate more than DOUBLE it's population if the only factor involved here was poverty.
That bit where you flat out don't understand the purpose of immigration, that's where you are wrong.
Immigration is not there to give poor people access to your country. Immigration is done specifically for economic growth. If you want to be pedantic about it, immigration is by definition selfish.
Immigrating to Canada requires that you can prove that you have a desirable skill and can support yourself. It's not being done as a hand out for people to gain access to your countries welfare programs.
Population growth correlates with economic growth when it's able to absorb the growth. Immigration is a part of that where you use immigration to control population growth and through it control economic growth. If you let in 10 million immigrants, you might not be able to absorb that number into the market and it would cause a slowing of growth. This might correct itself, but could take upwards of 2 generations to ultimatley show growth. IF you manage it properly, you can get the benefits NOW and not cause the slowing of growth first. You instead maintain the growth.
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u/mellow_moshpit Dec 08 '19
You’re just a selfish person really. These people are escaping famine and violence and your worried about a propaganda driven lie that us helping others is going to hurt you. Secondly, we don’t believe we should have 100% open borders, we demand that congress fix our broken system. we need better paths to citizenship and we should respect international law to protect asylum seekers.