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Maybe they believe that the US is that city on the hill. All bright, shiny and full of justice and equality.
That or practically all other S/American countries are suffering from the same fate. Been made into Banana Republics with land sold off to foreign corporations to more productively exploit.
Most of the world's refugees flee to their nearest neighbours. That's just a fact. You can look it up.
It's only a handful, a big handful because there are so many of them now, but a small fraction of them that managed to get to Western countries.
Like I quoted before, there are some 2 million refugees in Lebanon. That's about half its population. Most from Palestine, a large increase from Syria, Iraq recently.
There's about 1M in Iran. Fleeing from Iraq and Afghanistan. There's even Syrian refugees in Iraq, fleeing the flare up in Syria.
Do we see any 6 digit refugees/"migrants" knocking at Western countries' gates?
What country are most able to help refugees? The Western ones or those impoverished, war torn ones?
US Col Wilkinson, from memory, said that some years ago the US estimate that there are about 60million climate change refugees around the world a year. That's per year.
No freaking great wall of America is going to stop that. Not when the climate and the bombs work together like it's happening.