• rynn@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    Stories like these are a good reminder to people in the US saying they will just move somewhere else.

    There’s really no guarantee anywhere of safety, and when you leave your home country you become the immigrant.

    Maybe that will go well, but if anti immigrant populism starts rearing its ugly head anywhere history has shown time and again it can get bad.

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      5 hours ago

      There’s really no guarantee anywhere of safety

      Frankly, there’s no guarantee anyone will allow you in in the first place. A lot of these people really, really overestimate the strength of the American passport and think this translates to some immigration advantage, but in most cases it doesn’t. You still need a, usually very specific and skilled job that’s hard to find people for, marriage, or close family that’s already there. A few countries extend that out to grandparents, but that seems uncommon.

      Immigrating anywhere is really, really hard just from a legal perspective, nevermind the cultural and/or linguistic isolation that wears on you over time. There’s a reason a lot of people don’t do it and of those that do, many go back before too long.