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barneystinson69 said:
VGPolyglot said:

You know what would make people not want to immigrate here? Well, there's two ways of doing that:

1. Make life here so horrible that they wouldn't want to immigrate

2. Make life there better so they don't want to emigrate.

What does "Western society" even mean? That somehow Westerners are more important?

No, that the standard of living in Europe and North America (as well as parts of South America and Asia) is much better than most of the world. We don't see people from Europe and North America immigrating in mass to Africa, the Middle East, and large parts of the world in anywhere near the numbers they are receiving immigrants for many reasons. And I get that people want to immgrate here, but there is only so many you can support. Realistically, the west consumes far too much already, having more people only makes the problem worse.

As I said, unless the situation here becomes so terrible, or the situation there improves drastically, there's always going to be people who are going to come to the countries illegally, because they're willing to take the extreme risks for the little chance that they can have a better life. So, the best solution to me seems to make the whole world a better place to live in.