There is an amazing fact to the immigration crisis. Governor's of some states are trying to pass on the responsibility of taking care of the immigrants to other states. But, why are those Governors not focused on the conditions in those countries immigrants are fleeing? I have not heard one governor talk about the United States applying pressure to the governments where immigrants are coming from, or providing aid to those countries from whence the immigrants are coming! There has been no talk about those countries taking actions to build up the foreign countries' housing and job infrastructure, or stopping any mistreatment of the citizens causing them to flee to the United States. Their is no talk of providing aid to those countries, under specific conditions, so those countries can build affordable housing, and have clean water, food, and jobs, for their citizens. Would that not be a better solution than giving the inhabitants of those countries the one choice of embarking on a dangerous journey to the United States?
Instead politicians and their followers gripe and moan about all the immigrants and aliens coming into the United States. Does the land where the immigrants are coming from contain poisonous soil and unbreathable air? Are those countries unfit for human beings to live? If not then what's the problem? If the problems can be fixed in those countries, fix them. Then the United States won't have to worry about trying to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people a year into the United States. Governors will not have to expend state dollars to ship immigrants to another state. Is that not the widely touted "win-win" scenario of legend?
So, to the federal government, to the President, Vice President, and our dysfunctional Congress and Senate I ask you to answer the question. Why are you not working with those countries where the immigrants are fleeing, or applying pressure to the governments of those countries to fix the conditions that are making their citizens flee from to the United States?
In the Presidential debates that would be a topic I would like to hear the candidates talk about. Having the countries of immigrants fix the conditions in those countries that are making their citizens flee to the United States.
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