So I was listening to NPR today, and something ticked me off. Why do we play dumb games with people's lives? It's one thing not to send climate-based foreign aid money to a country like Pakistan or the Bahamas to which we have already given enough money.
It's another to say no to tens of thousands of Afgan Refugees who really are just the best, and most dynamic people in Afghanistan which we evaluated from the terror regime in Kabul right now. Yet their legal status in the Us is a political football. This is insane, they are not rent-seeking, there was one guy who used to be a colonel in the Afghan military who I learned about listening to NPR and whose relatives learned English faster than I learned it at age 8. This is exactly the type of people we need in the US.
Now it's harder to defend refugees from Central America from my perspective, but they fit the definition of a refugee. They are fleeing from gangs and in some cases car bombs. I am sorry but anarchy is just as bad a dictatorship. Gangs are organized violence as well, and the idea that well they are economic refugees so we shouldn't accept them is horrific. Let's send them back to car bomb city, that's a dumb take. Also, you know what happens to people when you rescue them, they are grateful for you and want to repay you. They will join US society, and the economy, and for some I willing to be they will join the US military at high rates than the locals when we are facing personal shortages.
Also, "illegal" or undocumented immigrants are even more economically dynamic than most refugees.
But let's be real Title 42 isn't about economics or being practical. It's about Biden's fear of normie independents who love the status quo and are mildly racist and for republicans the xenophobic racists, and right-wing eco-fascists.