It’s interesting to observe how the public opinion is being acclimated to the idea that nothing will be done about migration yet again.
“Why does our government care more about protecting Ukraine’s border than protecting our Southern border?” the paid shills for unchecked migration keep saying.
The idea they aim to transmit is that nothing will be done about migration because all the money that could have gone to solving that problem went to Ukraine. That huge, huge money needed to stop migration. Of course, there’s never any explanation of why the huge, huge money wasn’t spent on stopping migration in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and so on into infinity. If there’s a way to stop migration with money, why wasn’t that done in all the years before Ukraine got itself invaded and took all that money away?
In the meantime, nothing that could really stop migration is even being suggested. But that isn’t the fault of our rotten politicians. No, they are desperate to solve the problem. They were on the verge of solving it. Eager and willing! If it weren’t for that pesky Ukraine that took all the money, they would have totally done it.
Let’s go vote for them some more.
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Technocapitalism is as much anti-natalist as regards native populations as it is in favour of high immigration rates of non-native populations. Since technocapitalism enjoys wide support among politicians in both US mainstream parties, I really don’t see how this problem can be solved.
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Exactly. There’s zero political will to remedy the situation. Zero. But people get endlessly duped by stories how impossible it is to solve the issue.
On the other hand, if people consent to being duped time and again, I guess it serves them right.
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“zero political will to remedy the situation”
Worse than that. My new hypothesis (waiting for counter-evidence) is that western governments do everything they can to facilitate mass migration to western countries (EU, North America).
The idea is they’re doing everything they can to increase it that won’t cause mass unrest.
So instead of the EU (or UK) simply having open borders they encourage people to get on boats and get picked up so they can be transported to Europe or the UK.
The very few politicians who’ve actually tried to follow existing migration law in their countries have found themselves in legal problems for their trouble.
The dynamic is a bit different but the goal is the same, increasing migration while making sure enough anti-migration voices are heard just enough that some people vent but don’t actually start mass protests….
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I’m not quite following the logic of boats vs. open borders here. What’s the advantage?
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“What’s the advantage?”
The advantage is that you can play on people’s heartstrings, with millions of left-wing voters saying that if you are anti-immigration are worse than the Nazis.
Moreover, if migrants are rescued at sea, they MUST be taken to a safe haven before their status can be ascertained, as they cannot be repatriated while at sea. This is the so-called “non-refoulement” rule in the Geneva convention of 1951 which explicitly prohibits sending people back if they were rescued at sea.
The sly and wily NGOs – totally unaccountable to any government or electorate – are pouring millions of dollars/pounds/euros into their “rescue operations” behind the legal protection of international agreements. NGOs have the financial resources, legal support and media clout to fight any government policy aimed at undermining any legislation regulating immigration.
State executives are also powerless in the face of a thoroughly ideologised judiciary intent on judicially defeating any attempts at controlling immigration. This is an ideological as well as cultural issue in which the democratic will of peoples who are sovereign only on paper is held in utter contempt by the transnational elites of the world.
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Again, this is all extremely easy to solve by passing a regulation that nobody who isn’t an EU citizen gets any welfare payments. Migrants very explicitly refuse to go to countries with bad welfare protections.
No welfare, no path to legalization once you step foot on the country’s soil illegally, no chance to bring anybody over ever.
That’s it. This makes the entire issue of boats moot once and for all. Plus, this will cost absolutely nothing. This can all be solved today if there were any interest in solving it.
And it’s not just the governments. The voters are clearly uninterested in solving the issue either because here in the US, at least, I’m hearing zero people calling for the simple measure of stopping illegal migration that I outlined (not accepting applications from people who entered without papers). In the past, both Trump and Biden actually floated a version of this idea but it received zero interest and support from the voters. So Trump and Biden abandoned it.
We need to recognize our own role in this debacle and acknowledge our agency. Nothing can exist for 30 years without the consent of the people. Lockdowns fell apart in months. Forced vaccinations did, too. What people don’t want goes away eventually. Mass migration is clearly not something that’s massively unwanted.
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Thanks! That makes way more sense now.
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Why do you think Western governments are doing this? What’s in it for them?
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Answered in a separate post.
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“boats vs. open borders here. What’s the advantage?”
If they announced they were opening borders then there would be pushback and demonstrations (also if they just did so).
The boats are plausible deniability and if they decide enough have actually arrive then they can stop them – replace the ngo rescue boats with military patrols who escort those at sea back to where they set sail from.
The biggest sleight of hand (also at the US-Mexico border) is to equate “We can’t stop them from coming” with “We can’t keep them out”. Keeping them out is not super easy but it’s doable.
But people who don’t want a solution will not find a solution (or find anybody else’s solution acceptable).
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