The Prof G podcast/YouTube channel has been pretty good at harping on the inequalities in the US lately. https://www.profgalloway.com/taxes/ they/his team argue that a lot of the general negativity in things like migration policy and population growth and household forming is from the huge inequities in play. People just get more “small minded“ when facing or perceiving worsening conditions.
Further, usually people commenting don’t have to out whether they’re near a border. (Let alone actual US commenters or not…)
Personally, and I’ve always lived a few hours from the US/Mexico border, I think the US needs to address the otherism crap more directly. A point upgrade to the old adage of “send us your migrants, your weak, your poor, and there’ll be a place for hard workers.” “But leave any cultural baggage that’s going to cause you to discriminate against anyone else here behind. Same goes for any wars or desire to harm others.”
I’m also curious where we’ll be in about 10 years once more of the old guard “age out.”
Edit-the illegal immigration system currently pushes them into black markets and modern day slavery. So there needs to be a decriminalization of whole swaths of migrants. And it’s a huge, complicated issue that can’t be fully outlined in a quick cable news vignette.
>But leave any cultural baggage that’s going to cause you to discriminate against anyone else here behind. Same goes for any wars or desire to harm others.”
I think this is utterly impossible and a ridiculous thing to expect from immigrants. You're asking them to stop being human. Of course immigrants are going to bring all their cultural baggage with them; it's impossible for them not to. People are a product of the environment they grew up in. You can't expect to just grab a person from some random place on the planet, drop them into an entirely alien new country, and have them magically assimilate in any short period of time. Generally, they never do: their kids do, however.
Further, usually people commenting don’t have to out whether they’re near a border. (Let alone actual US commenters or not…)
Personally, and I’ve always lived a few hours from the US/Mexico border, I think the US needs to address the otherism crap more directly. A point upgrade to the old adage of “send us your migrants, your weak, your poor, and there’ll be a place for hard workers.” “But leave any cultural baggage that’s going to cause you to discriminate against anyone else here behind. Same goes for any wars or desire to harm others.”
I’m also curious where we’ll be in about 10 years once more of the old guard “age out.”
Edit-the illegal immigration system currently pushes them into black markets and modern day slavery. So there needs to be a decriminalization of whole swaths of migrants. And it’s a huge, complicated issue that can’t be fully outlined in a quick cable news vignette.