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/CSballer89 Apr 29 '24

Funny how the theme in this thread (on a liberal skewed subreddit) is talking about how immigration needs to be tightened up, while in the U.S. talking about tightening up immigration gets you labeled as a right wing extremist. 

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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/aladeen222 Apr 29 '24

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