Because it's obvious?
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Less pedantry, I’m getting boreder
What you call "pedantry" I call "minimal command of a language to enable proper communication". If I can handle it in a language that's not mine, so can you.
You may not care about communicating properly. In that case, feel free to block me.
Sorry dude, “boreder” fell flat, huh? Trying to make a word pun and clearly didn’t succeed
You didn't succeed at finding the block button either.
I tend to give people a long leash on writing skills as long as I understand the message. Who knows, maybe the sender suffers from severe dyslexia?
Yeah, my please was only because the wrong version rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, but nothing against the OP (I acknowledge that I failed to convey that).
There are at least two international organizations whose purpose is to deal with immigration and/or it's root causes here in the Americas. The United States does do work to address immigration and it's root causes.
https://mirps-platform.org https://rcmvs.org
However, one party benefits from the chaos and fear that comes from a "border crisis." Trump was recently in the news for trying to sway republicans to kill a border policy, because it would look good for Biden. Unless we can remove conservatives from power, there will always be immigration issues.
There are huge migration issues in North America, Africa/Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, etc. It is not a US-centric issue. And seeing people freaking out at the numbers now doesn't give me much hope for dealing humanely with the impending world-wide climate refugees in the near future. I know much of the migration even now is caused by climate fucking, but it's nothing like it's going to be.
You know I had this same thought just the other day, and decided to look up some numbers to see just how comparable the situations really are. What I found was that the number of people attempting to cross the US southern border is like four times as many as have tried to cross into Europe, per year. No I didn't bookmark the source, but you should be able to Google it up like I did. I don't know why this is a much bigger problem in the US, but it does seem to be.
I found an interesting page about global refugees. I knew some of these, but have to admit that I did not know about too many of them. I also did zero vetting on the source.
In the past decade, the global refugee crisis has more than doubled in scope. In 2022, the UNHCR announced that we had surpassed the 100 million mark for total displacement, meaning that over 1.2% of the global population have been forced to leave their homes. As of mid-2023, that also includes 30.51 million refugees. Over half of those refugees come from just three countries. These numbers are high — almost beyond comprehension — but each one represents a person who has been forced to leave everything behind due to circumstances beyond their control.
It is not America's responsibility to fix all the world's problems. We have enough or our own that we can't fix.
If we weren't actively fucking with other countries, I might agree with you. But we do that to keep prices down, and this is the consequence.
We caused, indirectly or even directly, many of the causes that people are trying flee from in their home countries in Latin america.
The vast majority of them are trying to flee gang violence.