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What do you think of these stories?
Let's put it in the most simple words, so everyone could understand.
The fact IS that ever greater number of people want to come and live in US.
I have long ago read the passage written by keen,wise, observant philosopher(Arthur Schopenhauer)who once stated that nothing turns one so much against the other than the plight of the latter to show compassion and give away something that one holds dear.
Go on the street tomorrow,of any country or city in the world, stretch your arm, open up the palm of your hand and beg for something. Tell everybody in what a desperate need you are.
See for yourself how much of what you get from whom.
(BTW, your chances of getting at least something thrown at you would be significantly less in India and other third world/developing countries than in US or any developed Western Country, and in less developed countries you would most likely encounter so much greater contempt and repulsion displayed towards you by bypassers).
On the other hand, imagine yourself being in possession of large estate/mansion/entity with overflowing surplus of resourses and wealth.
It's not difficult to envision how many would run to your feet and offer you much (that you didn't even need), just for the sake of winning your "friendship". You would start yawning and would even get cynical, seeing how many around you wanted to show their utter "kindness" and "friendliness" to you.
And also think how would you feel about most desperate ones prostrating themselves before your front gate, begging you just to give them off something ?
And, lo and behold, such is the human nature that as soon as you showed true compassion and started to help out those begging around you, it wouldn't be too long before you earned their contempt and even recentment, for the feeling of inferiority imposed on them by very act of your generosity.
As Schopenhauer ,I would have to say that
such is the human Nature, it is not what I or you desire it to be, it simply is what it is.
Looking through this realistic prism, I would say that the tension around immigration issues will settle and problems will get solved only when the flow of immigration significantly slows down and overwhelming demand for benefits from immigrants is replaced with unfulfilled demand from natives for more immigration.
Thus, immigrants would fare better if [instead of Quixotish attempts to turn the reality upsite down by sending flowers to USCIS and fighting their cases in Courts] they concentrated their efforts and resourses on finding places other than US to immigrate.
If Vancouver is open to accept more immigrants - so much better for the latter, immigrate there while you can !
On the US side ,closing down and securing the borders along with enforcing lower immigration quotas and deporting significantly larger number of undocumented immigrants (larger than ever before) would help to alleviate ever increasing tensions among natives and bring the athmosphere of tranquility, which is so necessary to solve any outstanding issues.
Alternative to above is what we observe today.
Regards,
RationalE
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