Is immigration a right or a privilege? And is illegal immigration a nuisance or a crime?

[cheyanne]

33. These are the wrong questions to ask!!

We need to look at this in terms of human nature: like water runs down hill, people seek a secure environment. To solve the problem of immigration, we need to understand why it happens. Let's look at this without value judgments.

Why are a large number of people leaving everything they've known, risking death and breaking laws.

As a social phenomenon that has been going on since the first human left Africa, it a natural human instinct. An instinct to live safely and provide for a family. This is a good instinct; this is what people are supposed to do.

When you have immense differences in quality of life, it's human nature to go where the jobs are and where one can live under a rule of law.

So
The rich nations have allowed the rest of the world to slide into poverty and with modern technology the rich can no longer ignore the people of these nations.

And immigration is good for both the rich and poor countries: rich countries economies are boosted by immigrants and immigrants boost the economies by sending home money.

So there are two steps to controlling immigration:

regulating the influx

providing aid to the countries that people are leaving.

This is a practical matter: we can't stop it by criminalizing it. We have to work with these people. This is similar problem to drug addition: people get addicted and it can't be stopped by criminalizing it. We need to provide help for these people.