Send this to Trump and he’ll suddenly be for the ban
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Something western countries have been slow to adapt to is that the social pressures with respect to immigration have greatly changed. Across every part of the world, local and regional ties have weakened, and with now a majority of the world on smart phones, the spread of information (true and false) facilitates the movement of people to wealthy countries. Cheap global air travel helps too, but I think that’s secondary. The long and complicated journeys people take – which often involve multiple legs, co-ordination with organized criminal/smuggling elements, communication with people whom you do not share a language with, etc. are made so massively simpler with modern communications technology.
When current international treaties with respect to refugees were written, it was essentially unthinkable that large numbers of men and women would leave their home country absent imminent and probable physical danger. I also think it would be accurate to say the western nations which made these agreements also did not anticipate how comparatively cheap and easy it would be for people in the third world to travel to reach them. Then you have these issues compounded by this kind of false social media advertising where people and criminal organizations present life in western countries as unrealistically easy and prosperous.
It’s hard to imagine the status quo of international refugee/asylum frameworks staying in place.
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Non-paywalled link:
https://archive.is/2025.01.07-153850/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/on-tiktok-every-migrant-is-living-the-american-dream
American social media is cucked.
Send this to Trump and he’ll suddenly be for the ban
Something western countries have been slow to adapt to is that the social pressures with respect to immigration have greatly changed. Across every part of the world, local and regional ties have weakened, and with now a majority of the world on smart phones, the spread of information (true and false) facilitates the movement of people to wealthy countries. Cheap global air travel helps too, but I think that’s secondary. The long and complicated journeys people take – which often involve multiple legs, co-ordination with organized criminal/smuggling elements, communication with people whom you do not share a language with, etc. are made so massively simpler with modern communications technology.
When current international treaties with respect to refugees were written, it was essentially unthinkable that large numbers of men and women would leave their home country absent imminent and probable physical danger. I also think it would be accurate to say the western nations which made these agreements also did not anticipate how comparatively cheap and easy it would be for people in the third world to travel to reach them. Then you have these issues compounded by this kind of false social media advertising where people and criminal organizations present life in western countries as unrealistically easy and prosperous.
It’s hard to imagine the status quo of international refugee/asylum frameworks staying in place.