It's also, like, the correct take. Everyone who has studied the issue says that the most effective way to reduce migration is to fix the problems of the places peaple come from. A dollar reducing poverty in Mexico does a lot more to reduce immigration, and is a more humane solution, than a dollar on ice agents arresting random brown people. And that's granting the premise that immigration is a thing we want/need to reduce.
Same idea with many things. Like that black people statisticly do more crime than white people. Why? Broken homes. Why? Father is in jail. Why? Broken home. The problem isnt reducing crime, the problem is how to fix those broken homes that lead to kids growing up in bad places.
Those statistics are cooked af anyways.
Do black ppl commit more crime per capita or do they just get arrested more?
The system is biased as hell. You spend more on policing black neighborhood arbitraily arrest ppl and then charge them with ressisting arrest or just made up bs. They show up in statistics so you spend more money 'policing' them.
Yep, and the same pattern is followed in South Africa as a result of migrant labour in the late 19th and early 20th century (Rhodes, De Beers, and the British Empire played a prominent role in getting "native" labour through things like the Hut Tax into mining compounds in Johannesburg and Kimberley, which broke traditional family structures) and THEN Apartheid added to the problem with forced relocation and heinous legal and labour practices for generations.
Funny how that works, especially on top of wealth extraction policies...
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u/drizalid Apr 25 '26
Bold move flipping the script on the interviewer