Immigration is an unsolvable problem. You can make things better or worse, but you can never fix it. As long as there are bad places and better places, people from bad places will want to move to better places.
That has been the case throughout human history. Even authoritarian countries that treat illegal immigrants poorly, much worse than the US still get a lot of illegal immigration. My country Libya for example, is lawless, its the worst place in the world right now for immigrants, especially illegal ones; gangs control the border for the most part, illegal immigrants are abused in absolutely horrific ways and some are even literally enslaved. Yet that still hasn't stopped thousands of illegal immigrants going through Libya to try to get to Europe.
It isn't. But it's unsolvable if you only want to use "soft" methods.
The thing is the populations in the US and in Europe wants soemthing done about immigration, and in the last 20-30 years those in power haven't done enough, add to that the working class' struggles and you have the base from which can build and win on right wing nationalism.
We have these conflicts all around the Western world, there's a crisis in the German Government at the moment based largely on immigration.
If politicians want to keep and defend the liberal democracy, it's tiem to wake up and realise in what direction voters are moving - The Democrats arrogance gave Trump the victory.
The stuff about the kids is heartbreaking, but if soemthing isn't done about migration now, we'll end up shooting people at our borders (and by this I mean that in tiem extreme people will rise to power).
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I fear the number will increase.
This in my opinion is vital. It isn't about immigration per say, western countries need to be practical and realistic and understand what the common voter cares about. In this case perception is just as important as reality IMO, its not ideal, but it is the reality. Unless the political establishment take a harder stance on immigration in general and illegal immigration in particular, we are seeing a trend of more and more voters moving to the extreme right.
If illegal immigration was so costly as it is described, if there was no incentive for the American employer to hire illegal immigrants, we wouldn’t be talking about the issue today. Of course the unskilled uneducated native sees the illegal immigrant who offers his low skills at a lower price as the problem (hence why illegal immigration is framed as the problem to win votes) but overall, the low skilled native could be actually better off because of the illegal immigrant as illegal immigration could have a positive impact on productivity and total welfare.
I agree that valid cases can be made on both sides of this debate from moral and social standpoints and that’s why it’s a controversial issue but 1) to claim that illegal immigration has led entirely to negative outcomes is a big lie with no empirical support and 2) to use children as a deterrent is inexcusable and it really shocks and pains me tbh to see that it has sympathizers.
I agree fully with this, but I really don't think this is the issue, a significant enough chunk of countries populations get their information not from empirical data or peer reviewed articles, they get it from social media, news sites, and the internet. So whether the research shows that immigration produces a net positive effect or not, does not matter as much in the grand scheme of things. We have to accept that reality if we don't want the likes of Trump, and the right wing parties in the UK and western Europe to take control.
Right now, the political establishment have a choice between doing something about immigration or keep losing to the extreme right. If the former take a harder stance on immigration, at least we can trust that they won't go anywhere near as far as the coalition government in Italy or Trump in the US. That has to count for something, in the short term at least.
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