@zenvelo Me too. If I couldn’t eat or have a safe dwelling I’d want to be able to emigrate myself. It would be hard, hard for me to leave “my” country, but I would seek the opportunity to live better.
Mostly, I see a failure for some people who are so incredibly anti-immigrant to put themselves in the other person’s shoes. They somehow lack the idea of “there but for the Grace of God go I.” They think it could never happen to them. Anything can happen to anyone.
I never liked the word privileged to describe white oeople in America, but I have always felt privileged and grateful to be born in America. My family went through the struggle to come here, I just lucked into it.
Having said all that, I do think there has to be some control over the borders, the world is not a place where we can just be one United Earth. Democrats don’t seem to want to acknowledge that at all right now, everyone moving to their extreme sides isn’t helping.
I think it’s more to do with a mindset of appreciating diversity, and wanting to help others, and in my opinion, help the world. The US has an incredible history of being a country of immigrants. Have we done shitty things to some groups when they arrive? Yes. But, overwhelmingly we are a big mix of people from around the world working to live in harmony with each other. I truly believe that. In my mind America was the beacon of hope for world peace in that we are the example of over 100 countries living together. I hope we don’t really screw that’s up beyond repair.