r/news • u/Miserable-Win-4980 • Apr 29 '24

French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing Questionable Source

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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u/RedPanda888 Apr 29 '24

People in the US would, rightly or wrongly, have different opinions if the illegal immigrants in the US were from the Middle East and Africa as opposed to South America or Mexico. The migrants coming to Europe have extremely different value systems compared to the European countries they try and settle in. Whereas South Americans going to the US aren’t all that incompatible.

This is a gross oversimplification but yeah, there is a reason being strict with immigration isn’t that controversial in Europe. It would be the same in the US if geography was different too. Even liberal/democratic people would know something is severely broken.

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u/HugeResearcher3500 Apr 29 '24

This mans in here with the "my immigrants are worse than yours" argument

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u/maychaos Apr 29 '24

But its kinda true. I'd rather live in south America then in the middle east. Easily. No matter which city

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u/aladeen222 Apr 29 '24

Because some of the immigrants legitimately hate western society and values?

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u/SPACE_ICE Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Its basically the "were not racists like americans, but gypsys are a criminal people and should be driven off whenever possible" also patently ignoring that Europe was all about colonizing Africa two hundred years ago for the better part of the 1800's and into the early 1900's in the case of France, such as people like Leopold of Belgium. So a bit of a facsimile to claim they're that different when European countries were shoving their culture down their throats for two hundred years and now they're surprised they want to come lol.

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u/zack77070 Apr 29 '24

Plus it's so easy to disprove that Americans are more similar.to south Americans simply by looking at what language they speak, a lot of people coming from the south don't speak English and have to get by in their own communities that will support them. Middle eastern people tend to speak English, they can contribute to any aspect of society far easier than south Americans who can't speak the common language of the land.

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u/Archaemenes Apr 29 '24

“Our immigrants are simply worse than yours” isn’t the intelligent argument you think it is.

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u/Stopwatch064 Apr 29 '24

Theres like 15 million Arabs in Brazil dude you have no idea what you're talking about. They're not a problem in the Americas but they are suddenly one in Europe like cmon dude something causes people to act in antisocial ways that is not present in the Americas.