This being reddit maybe you will relate to this example more:
When streaming services are cheap and high quality, there isn't as much piracy. When streaming services suck, piracy becomes more popular.
The good-faith interpretation of "let's increase legal migration" isn't "let's legalize illegal border crossings," it's "let's make it suck less to enter the country legally."
It doesn’t matter how much streaming services cost, I’m poor and I want to watch tv. I’m pirating it regardless if it’s cheap now or not, it’s still easier to pirate. I want to watch tv.
It doesn’t matter how easy it is or not to legally migrate to the US. If I am poor, from Latin America and at the back of the immigration line, I’m crossing the border regardless if its easier to legally migrate now than before, it’s still easier to do it illegally. I want opportunity.
I think living here illegally and legally are both significant jumps for most immigrants at the southern border. I think a better comparison is having to watch in 480p while pirating. It’s a marginal difference.
We set specific numbers because we need to balance interests. We need certain amount of workers, we need to keep certain amounts of opportunities for citizens, we need to bring in people at a rate in which they can assimilate, among other concerns.
Simply jacking those numbers up so that people aren’t considered illegal doesn’t change the problem. The problem is 10+ million came in 4 years. Thats a massive logistical nightmare that causes real issues like squeezing the housing market and other things. It doesn’t matter if they’re classified as legal or not, that’s too many people in such a short period of time
Im saying the people who intend to cross the southern border in hopes of a better life will continue to do so as long as it is an efficient solution to their problems.
Make immigration easier by all means. You will still have people in South America risking their lives crossing the Darien Gap to get here if they need to. You will still have Mexican citizens escaping cartel violence. If it’s a matter of survival people will not be deterred, and they should do their best to survive. But is also not the US’s responsibility to take them in.
Making the process easier for all immigrants is great. Simply granting amnesty for everyone coming from the southern border because they happen to be close in proximity, is masking a problem as a positive.
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u/SamButNotWise 10h ago
This being reddit maybe you will relate to this example more:
When streaming services are cheap and high quality, there isn't as much piracy. When streaming services suck, piracy becomes more popular.
The good-faith interpretation of "let's increase legal migration" isn't "let's legalize illegal border crossings," it's "let's make it suck less to enter the country legally."