Immigration and large demographic changes, differences in birth rates are issues faces by countries of all types, UK, Germany, Sweden, US in the past, even Russia. Definitely no easy answers. It is enormously frustrating to hear people complain endlessly about inflation and lack of workers at the same time they push anti-immigration poli…
Immigration and large demographic changes, differences in birth rates are issues faces by countries of all types, UK, Germany, Sweden, US in the past, even Russia. Definitely no easy answers. It is enormously frustrating to hear people complain endlessly about inflation and lack of workers at the same time they push anti-immigration policies (legal especially). Instead of letting people prove their worth, it is preferred to spend gobs of money to house people in an institution where they are unable to contribute to the economy. Granted some are probably bad people but i assume most are coming for similar reasons to my forebears.
I have an outside-the-box solution for our southern border: build a small, self-contained city that straddles the border, in cooperation with Mexico, that has housing, health care, schools, and some light industry. People can stay there as long as they follow special laws created for that space, while they await the hearings on their immigration cases. Maybe they’ll never want to leave!
Immigration and large demographic changes, differences in birth rates are issues faces by countries of all types, UK, Germany, Sweden, US in the past, even Russia. Definitely no easy answers. It is enormously frustrating to hear people complain endlessly about inflation and lack of workers at the same time they push anti-immigration policies (legal especially). Instead of letting people prove their worth, it is preferred to spend gobs of money to house people in an institution where they are unable to contribute to the economy. Granted some are probably bad people but i assume most are coming for similar reasons to my forebears.
I have an outside-the-box solution for our southern border: build a small, self-contained city that straddles the border, in cooperation with Mexico, that has housing, health care, schools, and some light industry. People can stay there as long as they follow special laws created for that space, while they await the hearings on their immigration cases. Maybe they’ll never want to leave!
One of the candidates for California governor has a similar proposal for using all that empty land on the California-Mexico border.
That’s hopeful - I had no idea anyone else was thinking outside the box that way. Maybe I should write to my Congressional reps.