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Adrianna Tan

For immigrants who are immigrants not by choice, their life choices are often shaped by western powers’ military and foreign policy decisions, sometimes having a home that isn’t perfect is the best that they can do.

That’s assuming people want to come to the ‘bastion of freedom’ that the U.S. believes it is, when no one really believes that anymore. (I would say the ‘migrants at the southern border’ are also doing it out of desperation for relative stability, not ‘freedom’)

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Adrianna Tan

For the vast majority of people with good passports (myself included), you may emigrate but your immigrant calculus is completely different. Especially if you are emigrating not because you have too, but because you want to. There are doors open to us that will never be even slightly ajar for many others.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@skinnylatte something like 40% of americans have never traveled abroad. and from those who have traveled, it's a minuscule % that has done so more than twice.

what's worse? there's even bigger swaths of the people who have never traveled to other states.

the wealth of Americans is completely a mirage. the oligarchy is so parasitic that it's them that skew the numbers, not even their millionaire minions.

Darius Kazemi

@skinnylatte there are so many Americans I talk to who just assume anyone with any passport can get into any country and it's basically free movement everywhere in the world.

Adrianna Tan

@darius That’s not even true for Americans who want to leave and live somewhere more permanently (beyond a tourist visa)

Darius Kazemi

@skinnylatte right! they get very confused and upset when you tell them

Berkubernetus

@skinnylatte Heck, a lot of the Central Americans at the border are just trying to survive. They can't be even slightly safe from criminal or government persecution without crossing the Rio Grande.

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