Because of war and very harsh living conditions in many countries, immigrants are flooding the borders of more stable countries. Now this may seem like a terrible thing for the countries that are being inundated by these refugees. Countries don’t have the means to house, feed and give basic necessities to these refugees. There is also the ( irrational?) threat that many of these refugees will bring with them gangsterism disease, drugs, and other bad stuff. In the United States at the Mexican border there are 10s of thousands of these migrants. The fact of the matter the United States may need these migrants. (1) There seems to be a lack of workers to help on the farms. (2) There is a shortage of workers that are willing to do low paying jobs. (3) The work force is getting older and there aren’t enough worker to replenish Social Security and Medicare. In the Eurozone, they’re already enough new workers to replenish their pensions, and therefore their pensions are under attack. We keep hearing of the birth rate bomb, well one can assume that the refugees can fix that.
In New York in the short run the refugee problem is scary ( lack of money and space)but in the short term future the benefits to the city by having a larger work force and larger population that would bring in more federal dollars and in tens years even more representation in congress. Every day I keep reading of the losing of population well the refugees add to the population (chuckle).
* The United States had a history of being anti-refugee ( Think of the exclusion of acts of Asians. Think of the limiting of Eastern Europeans , Italians and German Jews just before World War II. All these refugees who did come added greatly to the United States.
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