I think alot of countries are afraid of taking on extra liability…and to degree, i understand this. However, wealthy countries, like mine, behave badly towards immigration - even though our country was started as a place to emigrate to.

Anyway, I’m looking into (casually, right now) emigrating to Equidor and currently, their policies are pretty fair in my mind. You have to prove you’re not a criminal and as well that you will be capable of supporting yourself there. I think that is very reasonable.

Wish me luck!

Once upon a time, immigration systems didn’t exist and people could walk anywhere they wanted. In fact, immigration systems are very recent, historically.

Immigration systems achieve something very important: they help to further subjugate layers of the working class and divide them. Immigrant workers have to deal with very long processing times, forcing them to accept very low wages and horrible conditions, and reaching parity with citizen’s working conditions and pay becomes a dream.

This way, corporations and capitalists receive cheaper labor and a weaker working class they won’t have to fight.

Of course, there are other purposes it serves, but that is a pretty big one.

Countries tend to only allow immigrants that are essentially guaranteed to benefit the country. For example, in Canada and many EU countries, immigration generally starts with a work visa, but you can’t just apply for any old job, it generally needs to be a job that the country is having trouble filling. This is enforced on the side of employers by requiring that they must search for applicants within the same country before opening the position up internationally. Basically, immigration policies are “unless you can be of significant economic benefit to the country, fuck off.”

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