Comments by "retnavybrat" (@retnavybrat) on "On the line: The Mexicans deported from the US to a homeland they barely know • FRANCE 24 English" video.

"Why not work to better your own country?" If you're American, I can guarantee there are quite a few people in your family tree who immigrated here because the conditions (economic and/or sociopolitical) in their home countries were so miserable and/or dangerous that they felt they had no choice but to emigrate.
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@HypocriticYT Assuming you're either referring to those who came during the early days of European settlement in what would become the US or to those who came later and decided to settle beyond the cities and towns of the East, the native peoples already here would probably have disagreed that the land was "empty". Also, not every immigrant came during those early days or decided to go West. Many (especially those who came during the latter part of the 19th century) decided to stick to the larger cities (or, as you put it, "lands that were completely made into human habitat with roads etc."). Regardless, where and/or when our immigrant ancestors settled in this country wasn't my original point. My point was that the reasons why they came here weren't all that different from why people from Mexico and other Latin American countries want to come here now. By claiming the latter should stay in their home country and work to fix whatever problems they face is essentially saying that your own ancestors should never have come here. If they had stayed, you probably would never have existed.
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