Yes don't even get me started on the brilliance of that. /sGormwood wrote:Makes cutting off financial aid to their countries of origin instead of helping them economically and legally to where the citizens feel no need to flee north galaxy brain brilliant wouldn't you say?
But hell could be worse, could have threatened Regime change.
Sadly economic aid isn't the solution either, because it's not really the amount of money alone that matters but just too many people in general.
Some of the economic aid never reached these people in the first place, and likely never would no matter how much money the US throws at these nations. But we can't exactly fix that either unless there was some way to directly get the aid to every citizen of that country without a single corrupt person ruining it.
(Maybe send checks in the mail, I don't know)
For some of these countries, their leaders don't miss these people when they leave because to them these people are seen as worthless even inside their own nations, it's the same policy as those states inside the US who ship their own homeless people to California.
"Let's take all our poor people and push them somewhere else!!!"
(And it's the same for the Syrian Migrant crisis in Europe, while I'm sure Assad is partly bothered by his nation being depopulated, I bet he's not missing all the former rebels who fled Syria rather than fight him)
Hell I bet if there was someplace other than the US it's likely there would be people inside the country secretly wanting to do the same with the US's own poor people.
Make them someone else's problem so they don't have to pay for it.
(Instead the US just likes to pretend that the poor people don't exist until election year.)