Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Crumbling Infrastructure in the Russian Taiga || Peter Zeihan" video.

@garedmorort setting aside calling each other racist (we’ll get back to that in a moment), there is a large bloc on the U.S. right that claims that immigration is ruining the country—they’ve been making the claim for more than 40 years. There has been a continual push and pull within the right wing and within the GOP between the anti-immigrants and those that see immigration as a net positive. Over the last ten years, the anti-immigrationists have won. Here is something that might sound familiar to you. A lot of immigration from Central America is driven by conditions that America had a hand in creating, meddling in the politics and supporting authoritarian dictators. France has a similar situation, no? Many immigrants are coming from countries that were once colonial subjects of France or some other European power. The point is that our immigration problems are problems of our own making. I’m not anti-American or an “America is always wrong” type. U.S. meddling might have been a mistake but it was a counter to Soviet meddling in Latin America in the context of the Cold War. We didn’t want another Cuba in Latin America, especially not in Central America. That doesn’t excuse our mistakes, it just puts into context how we should be reckoning with immigration. And we should note that the U.S. conferred legal immigration status to those who were fleeing communist countries while making illegal those who were fleeing our brutal dictator allies. All that said, the anti-immigrant faction in the U.S. is mostly racist and part of larger racist authoritarian movement. They turn a blind eye to the majority of illegal immigration which comes from Europe and Asia, and freak out about the southern border.
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