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by jonnydubowsky 2626 days ago
People rushing to get into the u.s are doing so to escape certain death, the threat of very real and immediate violence or other challenges to attain the most basic mininum quality of life.

Capitalism has afforded the U.S with the neccessary resources and systems to deliver protections against these threats, but at the expense of longer term sustainability.

Longer term used to be far enough away that we could turn a blind eye to the very real dangers that our limitless growth at all costs economics systems create by way of the negative externalities of extract & exploit industries.

We've run out of time with regard to the longer term threats, so yes people are fleeing the innediate dangers of a house in fire, only to escape to a place where death is not as swift, their chances of survival are significantly improved, but that in no way diminishes the fact that the system that generated this stability is itself, falling apart and wreaking havoc.