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Well, the cause of illegal immigration must be that people need to emigrate so urgently as to make the process of legal migration impossible; or, corruption at either end of the journey makes it impossible (i.e. governments forcing people to stay in or out of a given country). There's a long discussion to be had about what the conditions for legal migration ought to be - do we have a Head Shop thread?
Presumably, the cause of the urgency of immigration is that life is unbearable (perhaps because of poverty, perhaps because of war) where the migrants come from - and considering the massive and fatal risks people take I think we can rest assured that they really are in a last-resort situation (if that was ever in doubt).
Can this poverty and war be sorted out? Probably, if the rich countries to which people migrate stopped the third-world debt and so on, and stopped selling weapons to corrupt regimes. Ultimately it is the responsibility of the people with power in the powerful countries to fix these problems. Until then, primarily the migrants, and also the poor of the powerful countries, will continue to suffer. We surely can't blame the migrants themselves for the situation. |
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