What are your thoughts on worldwide immigration?

Let’s talk about immigration… specifically about those fleeing wars and other terrors, including famine and an economy so bad their children are starving.

Do you feel like a country (any country, but specifically yours) has a responsibility to take in, humanly care for, shelter, and rehome (keep them in your country) these immigrants?

Should there be a global standard or should each country be on its own to do as it wishes in regard to immigrants fleeing wars/terror and abject poverty/hunger?

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OogieBoogie · F

We are all one nation - one planet .

Although, in saying that, i feel we are a divided species.
Not by nation or colour or ethnicity ....but creed: personal creed, religious creed, political creed, humanitarian creed - or the lack thereof 😔

Or is it greed?......or maybe fear?🤔
Needless greed and fear.

Immigrants take nothing from us. They are not the ones to blame for misplaced or mismanaged government protocols.

I do feel that untill we give up this stupid notion of 'nationality' being one of our primary identifiers, we will always see 'imigrants' painted with a tar brush, rather than what they really are: people who deserve a decent life, and are willing to help be part of another countries ecconomy and culture - while bringing some of their own.

I part envy the aid they get, but also realize their struggles are way beyond those i have had.

I would wish that, should i need it, the same effort would be applied to me. So i dont begrudge them anything .

Should we have a global standard?
- well yeah. But we should also already have a global standard for human rights, standard of living,.. safety etc.

Which we don't.
We don't even have decent national standards for each nation.

We can't expect any sort of world wide "anything" untill we get our shit together as a 'World'😔

I dont think a country HAS any obligation to take anyone in. But i do think we, as people, have a moral obligation to help those who need it.

The worst part of all this mess is .....the greedy and the insane.
Immigration wouldn't be such a hassle if we didn't have extremists.

But then, we wouldn't NEED immigration AT ALL, if we didn't have the extremists forcing the problem in the first place.

Ontheroad · M

@OogieBoogie

But i do think we, as people, have a moral obligation to help those who need it.

This, 100% this, and if we did, then we would have a global standard.

OogieBoogie · F

@Ontheroad truth🤘

If only there was a pandemic that took out narcissists, religious and political extremists and greedy/ cruel people.....imagine that !....a world run with wisdom and compassion !

Ontheroad · M

@OogieBoogie I think someone beat us on this idea...

[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAn-AWXtHv0]

OogieBoogie · F

@Ontheroad ohhhh.
He was so right.

And its prolly what got him killed😥

Ontheroad · M

@OogieBoogie I thought at one point we were getting there... now I'm not so sure.

[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wNuru4U0I]

OogieBoogie · F

@Ontheroad i remember that. I thought we were too. I thought it set a world wide standard to us, as privileged peoples - to our governments - of what we could do and achieve.

Sadly not .

Not even the governments were shamed into changing their ways.