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Life isn't fair, as evidenced by the fact that this hypothetical migrant family has reason to migrate in the first place. Your question presupposes that fairness is the default state of things and it simply isn't.
Worsening climate change is going to make this whole situation even more unfair going forward. The longer we wait to set up a better system the more inhumane the eventual solution is going to be and I don't think anyone wants to find out how much worse it can get.
is a problem to be solved, not a goal to be achieved
And I'd like for lawmakers in both parties to stop trying to use my tax dollars to make it even less so
We all would. This border deal was a gift to Republicans. It contains no actual long-term reform that will improve the situations. It's a bad deal I'm happy enough to see fail, though it is very unfortunate that the Ukraine aid is getting trashed with it -- because the future where Russia is continued to allowed to conquer westward is a dark one indeed.
And they still rejected it. The GOP were offered a no-brainer gift and they turned it down. Because scoring political points mattered more to them than getting what they want.
For most on the left, this story is kind of a wash. No Israel or bad border policy, but also no Ukraine. But it is a great allegory for how broken conservative politics are. There's increasingly no point negotiating them because nothing will satisfy their hunger other than authoritarian rule.
Yeah, it's super frustrating that we can't get Ukraine the aide they need, because yes, screw Russia and every other country that thinks they can just conquer and plunder like it's the 19th century or earlier again
110% agreed, now somebody find a way to get this message across to the heartless bastards running the Democratic party right now who think it's ok to play chicken with migrants and asylum seekers to score some cheap political points
Good luck with that. Nothing in my experience of life makes me think 99% of politicians give two shits about what's fair.
Oh yeah, if people think there's a migrant crisis now, wait until places start running out of fresh water.
Exactly, and if we don't have a functional "fence", so to speak, at that point then we'll end up using guns to stem the tide. We might end up doing that anyway but the system we have now doesn't even work under current conditions, which are about as good as any of us are likely to see again in our lifetimes. There's no way it's sustainable if the number of people attempting to claim asylum continues to increase and that appears unavoidable.
That leaves us with the uncomfortable question of what do we actually do with these people? Republican solutions aren't particularly good, and their basis for having the discussion seems more racist than humanitarian, but at least you can say they're not afraid of talking about it. Democrats seem content to pretend it's not going to be an issue because there's brown people in the crowd at the border and saying anything that could be perceived as less than perfectly inclusive about them is not pc.
No, it supposes that fairness should be a goal. Saying "life isn't fair" is at best a cop out and at worst it's an endorsement of deliberately treating people unfairly.
I think there are many many people who would disagree with your assertion that fairness should be the goal. That's not to say they're correct but if you take that implicit assumption for granted then you have no hope of understanding their position and therefore little hope of addressing the problem in any meaningful sense.
For most of them, cruelty is the goal.
I don't really care to understand to positions of horrible people.