shouldn’t lean on a system that’s already strained.

The system is only strained because liberals and fascists make it strained. People in Ter Apel are not allowed to work, they aren’t even allowed to hang out with citizens to integrate or to do informal work.

The housing shortage is the result of half a century of liberal dismantling of the robust social housing system, resulting in a deficit of which migrants are less than 5% of people that want a home.

If we built housing like China does and just let people work under the same collective labor contracts as citizens, there wouldn’t just be no problem; we would flourish.

Moreover, with climate change the amount of migration will only increase. The only options we have are (1) growing the migration system or (2) a war of annihilation in which the nations that set quotas try to murder enough migrants that the survivors fit under their quotas.

I would prefer option (1), so any migrant we get now who liberals and fascists struggle to classify as subhumans worthy of death is a win.

I don’t imagine there are many people who pay taxes to the Christofascists and who work for corporations in the Christofascist economy who are managing to do more good than harm.

So fleeing is a perfectly legitimate strategy, probably the best strategy short of sedition or similar crimes. Call it “scorched earth”.

It’s even more valid given the propensity of “moderates” to throw trans people under the bus. When you say you “can’t imagine it getting that bad”, I wonder what you imagine the transgender policy to be of the party that wins the election in 2028…

There are, however, lots of places where you can chain tourist visas, many of which even have a visa exemption scheme for US citizens. Some places even have “working holiday” visas that you can chain if you’re under a certain age.

You can juggle visas until the US is recognized as a place to be a refugee from, until you find a legal avenue to permanent residence (like marriage), or until you have the contacts necessary to disappear into the undocumented migrant world.

Or do you still think the US won’t get as bad as that?