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Illegal Immigration Explained with Gumballs and Why It’s Unsustainable

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This video was made by immigration author and journalist Roy Beck and although it was made in 1996, it is more relevant in today’s political climate than ever before.

Beck uses gumballs to illustrate how illegal immigration into the United States is not only ineffective at solving world poverty, but also allows other countries to ignore serious societal issues they’re facing by exporting those most in need of relief.

“When the elites are telling us to take this 1 million immigrants, that we somehow or another are tackling world poverty. And we have to do it regardless of the effect on our natural resources or our unemployed”, Beck says.

He addresses the claim that by America taking in millions of immigrants we could help reduce world poverty, “Is that true” he asks as he proceeds to prove the statement false using gumballs to represent those in poverty around the globe, totaling over 5 billion, and how even the most extreme immigration would not solve this problem.
Another valid point he makes is that the people who are so desperate that they feel they must make the hard, long and dangerous trek to illegally cross into the United States, would actually be the agents of change if they stayed in their own country by forcing their governments to address their problems.
 

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He addresses the claim that by America taking in millions of immigrants we could help reduce world poverty,
I have never heard this claim.

The only real reason I've heard for letting in so many immigrants is that they, ya know, want to come here. Hospitality and all that. I think we need to keep that in moderation.
 
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Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration; Joint Border Security and Enforcement and Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee Hearing: Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration


For FAR too long, the evils of human trafficking across our USA borders have been relatively ignored by FAR too many politicians, so-called leaders, and the lame stream mass media.
 
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Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration; Joint Border Security and Enforcement and Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee Hearing: Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration


For FAR too long, the evils of human trafficking across our USA borders have been relatively ignored by FAR too many politicians, so-called leaders, and the lame stream mass media.
Right. The solution is easy. The Cartels trafficked them to the border, the Cartels can traffic them away again, or let them starve in the desert.
 
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Right. The solution is easy. The Cartels trafficked them to the border, the Cartels can traffic them away again, or let them starve in the desert.
Are you being serious here?
 
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We're not going to be able to help anyone if the US becomes over populated and drained of resources. When there's thousands of Americans living on the streets, it means America is eroding into decay.
 
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Right. The solution is easy. The Cartels trafficked them to the border, the Cartels can traffic them away again, or let them starve in the desert.
Below is Mexico City, does it look like a desert to you?

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Beck uses gumballs to illustrate how illegal immigration into the United States is not only ineffective at solving world poverty, but also allows other countries to ignore serious societal issues they’re facing by exporting those most in need of relief.

He addresses the claim that by America taking in millions of immigrants we could help reduce world poverty,

“When the elites are telling us to take this 1 million immigrants, that we somehow or another are tackling world poverty."

What elite has ever said such a thing?

For my next trick, I'll use pipe cleaners to show that the interstate highway system is ineffective at solving bone cancer.
 
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Mexico City is not any near the border, however the desert is.
There's desert on both sides. Millions of people are able to cross it going north, but somehow they'll all die in the wilderness crossing it going south. There's cities and towns south of the border, the same as there's cities and towns north of the border. 90 million vehicles a year cross the border. That's nearly 250,000 per day. It's not a hundred miles of desolate wasteland across the whole border until you finally reach civilization. It's no different than going north across the border into Texas and Arizona.
 
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