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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.catoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comNo one is illegal
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    6 天前

    Not sure needing any sort of check would be “open borders”, but let’s assume it’s open to anyone who doesn’t have a violent criminal record. Now all the non-violent people with criminal records are fleeing to your country to avoid prosecution. Do you allow them to be extradited?

    Do you still have a military to protect your country from others? How do you prevent a foreign nation from just sending enough people over to instigate a coup? Way cheaper than going to war, and they wouldn’t even need to be sneaky or underhanded; just overwhelm the local population and overthrow their government.

    Universal healthcare would completely collapse if people can move to a country, get treatment, then go back home. Are you doing a health screening and making sure they have a job and live in the country for a minimum amount of time?

    Because no one wants to leave their family and entire home behind just to move to a wealthy country to live on the street as a homeless person

    You can bring your family too so that’s a non-issue, and many people would be better off homeless in a wealthy country than making do in a poor one. People will travel within a country to be homeless in the more desirable places, if there’s essentially no boundary imagine how many people that would attract. Especially if the wealthy country continues to have outreach and support programs for the homeless and still enforces laws in the inevitable camps that spring up.

    Now you’re arresting loads and people and it’s straining your resources to imprison them all. Do you start deporting people who break certain laws?

    Seems like we’re starting to invent all the immigration rules that never used to exist but sprang up out of necessity.