If your country was in a state of crisis or being torn apart by war and you wanted to save your family from that suffering...

...would you wait the years it may take to get into America by legal measures or would you do whatever you had to in order to keep your family safe?

Is the response that you have to these terrible, illegal immigrants the one you would want for you and your family if your fortunes were reveresed?

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

You do what you have to do. And it is also idiotic to expect people to stop to make sure they have all the proper documents on them and that the death squads will wait for them to get their documents before fleeing.

The very idea of it speaks to out of touch people speaking from a position of privilege and safety for whom this will always just be an intellectual exercise and never something they have real stakes in.

I also think some of the people obsessed with procedure if they were in that position might be like people my friend from Croatia told me about.

Some of them were still waiting for a government bureaucrat to save them while they were been loaded on to buses to the refugee camps.

Pikachu

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

I think that is so right.

I can't imagine being in the position that many of these people are and i don't think the RA RA anti-immigration people have even stopped to consider the actual real life people in this scenario.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Pikachu Well from climate change alone there are already estimates that in the next 30 years the US could find itself with up to 2 million internally displaced refugees. Should be interesting how things go when it is no longer a hypothetical.

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