225K migrant encounters in December 2023, highest monthly total since 2000

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/us/new-jersey-migrant-buses-nyc/index.html

From CNN:

The arrivals in the New York area come as US-Mexico border authorities in December encountered more than 225,000 migrants, the highest monthly total recorded since 2000, according to preliminary Homeland Security statistics shared with CNN.

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1. It's because the US economy stinks and unemployment so high, right? -insert sarcasm emoji here- ...

Why do you think people from everywhere come here?


https://www.statista.com › statistics › 283600 › emigrations-from-the-united-kingdom-y-on-y
UK emigration figures by citizenship 2023 | Statista
Dec 11, 2023In the year ending June 2022 approximately 508,000 people emigrated from the United Kingdom, 93,000 of which were British citizens, 215,000 were EU citizens, and a further 200,000 were non-EU...

[maxsolomon]

2. Which economy?

Many are fleeing govt. oppression, gangs and/or climate change.

Birth rates in the Developing World have been high for decades. It's not just that the economy in those nations "stinks"; it simply isn't large enough to provide work for so many new humans.

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5. We have a falling birth rate, falling population growth rate, 16,000,000+ empty homes ...

... employers begging for workers, one of the least dense populations in the world and at least 2nd or 3rd best standard of living.

I'll be glad to document any one of those claims.

[maxsolomon]

6. I don't dispute any of that.

We can accommodate lots more immigrants.

You said "the economy stinks". Then you edited.

[Polybius]

3. Even if it did stink and crash...

It would still be 100 times better than theirs.

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4. Amen.