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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
GoodLife, I picked up on your sarcasm and irony right away. I'm not too surprised that not everyone did. In my many years of online discussions, I've noticed many people are very literal. I even posted a few times that gullible is not in the dictionary and I'd get replies proving me wrong.
That said, I know you are too smart not to be able to answer your own question: As hard as life is sometimes in this country, it pales in comparison to the dire conditions they're trying to flee.
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Yes many come to have a better chance in life. But surely they would hesitate if they thought America was a racist oppressive society that some posters here believe it to be.
And you are forgetting that over 17 million people from Canada and Europe have immigrated here in the last 20 years. They are obviously not fleeing some hellhole they were born in. They saw America as an even better opportunity to succeed than the nice place they came from. It is not a small thing to uproot yourself and move to a foreign country, people do not do this on a whim.