NSmolenskiFan on Nostr: While there has been a lot of reporting and political outrage about illegal border ...
While there has been a lot of reporting and political outrage about illegal border crossings into the U.S., few journalists or policymakers have spoken to migrants themselves.
The surge in recent migrants from China is eye-opening: many are COVID lockdown refugees, fleeing what they perceive to be an arbitrary authoritarian regime that can take away their livelihoods at any moment, tanking the economy in the process:
“I sold everything that I had,” Huang [a migrant] said. “We were treated like caged animals.”
If we are serious about tackling the problem of illegal immigration, we need to do more than just police the border. We need to solve the problem at the roots, by creating an international political order where liberty is materially and systematically privileged over authoritarianism. We need to create fair trade agreements so that every country’s people have a shot at prosperity.
Ultimately, the solution to mass migration is to give people hope wherever they are. That is much harder than winning an election here and there: it calls for leadership based on principle.
aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2…
The surge in recent migrants from China is eye-opening: many are COVID lockdown refugees, fleeing what they perceive to be an arbitrary authoritarian regime that can take away their livelihoods at any moment, tanking the economy in the process:
“I sold everything that I had,” Huang [a migrant] said. “We were treated like caged animals.”
If we are serious about tackling the problem of illegal immigration, we need to do more than just police the border. We need to solve the problem at the roots, by creating an international political order where liberty is materially and systematically privileged over authoritarianism. We need to create fair trade agreements so that every country’s people have a shot at prosperity.
Ultimately, the solution to mass migration is to give people hope wherever they are. That is much harder than winning an election here and there: it calls for leadership based on principle.
aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2…