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Things are really crazy: Texas is blocking the border, the Feds are trying to come in and break the barricades and allow illegal immigrants in. Tens of thoushands of truckers from all states and even Canada are coming in to form a massive convoy to protest. The migrants are moving to the California border, where no one is stopping them.

There are hundreds of thousands of people coming in. Previously Texas would load up buses and send them to New York City, which cannot turn them away according to the local law. NYC is overrun with migrants.

To be fair, the majority of the arriving migrants are peaceful people who just want a better life. But the city is now bursting at the seams, and illigal immigrants are scrambling to find illegal employment, such as renting unregistered motoricycles and delivering food using fake IDs. The streets are hard to walk on as you have to dodge these vehicles going the wrong way and on sidewalks. If you get hit, the operators have no insurance and will likely escape.

NYPD doesn't do anything. These are the people who will fine you for drinking a beer on a park bench, or parking illegally for 5 minutes. They sit in their cars eating donuts, watching these guys go through red lights on sidewalks.

I don't believe that borders and governments should exist, partly for this reason. If a bunch of crooks run a protection scam, collecting money from everyone and handing it back out, this is what happens - people will congregate to where the giveaway is better.

But OK, we all agreed to be here, pay our taxes, and obey the laws, even those we are not crazy about. So why the heck would border agents look the other way while tens, hundreds of thousands of people are crossing the border?

When I return to the US from other countries, I get hassled at the border, searched, and questioned, my passport checked, etc. Why do law-obiding citizens have to go through that, while these migrants can just waltz in?

I feel like I don't quite understand what's happening here. There's got to be more to it.

Seems like a level-headed take. I don't blame individuals for making the decision to emigrate illegally if they need to. I know if I had to decide between observing the law and keeping my family safe I'd obviously choose the latter. But who looks at this situation, globally, and thinks it's a good thing? Why doesn't anybody look into WHY things are this way? Things are fucked if so many people feel they need to emigrate to other countries in the first place.

The only people benefiting from the way the current situation is are US companies who want to exploit people for cheap labor and the drug cartels who rape and extort the migrants and control the whole border.

The US needs to help end the instability it caused and take back the border from the cartels, by force with Mexico’s permission (which would be easy to get). Then we need compassionate and humanistic policies for asylum seekers so they can enter the country legally.

None of this is a solution to what to do with all of these people once they’re here, there’s no good answer to that. Try to get them employed as a first step I guess.

The Migrant Situation is Insane

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