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Thanks for making my point - If coming here was only marginally better than where they currently are, than it wouldn't be worth uprooting their family, taking only what they can carry, traveling a great distance, sneaking into another freakin country, breaking the law..... just to get into a little better situation? C'mon we are infinitely better than where they are coming from and you know it. Thats the reason they want to come here.
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Your country offers a better lifestyle for some than they would get at home. That doesnb't mean your country offers a better lifestyle than everyone gets in that country, merely those who choose to leave it. Far more people choose to stay in their country of origin than ever choose to leave it. You get a minority of people from any one country. Many other countries get a minority of people from elsewhere. Some of the countries who get a minority of people from elsewhere joining them, also have a minority of people leaving their country to go elsewhere.
People have been migrating in smaller or larger numbers since humanity began. Sometimes people move to another country expecting a better life and are happy in their choice. Sometimes people move to another country and discover that the grass is not greener on the other side, after all.
People arrive at, and leave, the shores of my country by hundreds of thousands a year. I have little doubt that people arrive in and leave your country in similar proportions. There are Americans living in every corner of the globe. There are Australians, Brits, French, Norwegian, Indians, Chinese and Iranians living in every corner of the globe.
That people choose to come to your country rather than stay in their own says much about your country and says much about theirs, but it's not the whole story. Yours is a great country, it is your home. Mine is a great country, it is my home. There will be Mexicans who would say the same, Indians, Pakistanis, Greeks, etc. Most of us are brought up to love our country, to identifiy with the people and places which constitute our home. Even when that home is a difficult place to be (i.e if you happen to be Congalese or Iraqi) we still love it.