Maybe we should be fixing their societies? Because letting 0,1% of people in third-world countries come and enjoy good things does nothing for their society in a long run, while it can do considerable harm (or good, for sure!) for the receiving society.
Sure it does. It alleviates the problem of the (often) explosive population growth, it brings in billions of dollars in remittances, and it allows future returnees to come with education and work experience which is, if not better, at least different from what the origin country provides.
There's a nice example in this week's TAL episode, regarding Kaiser Kuo, the American-born son of Chinese immigrants who "brought rock and roll to China" (by being one of the founders of Tang Dynasty). I think it's clear that the immigration of his parents was essential for his accomplishments.
Your other points stand, but only if donor society is in relatively good shape. Indian emigrants may help India but I doubt Somalian or Libyan emigrants help countries they fled.
We are only beholden to our own actions, not those of our ancestors or people who carry the same passport as us.
That's now how the world works now, and the only way to get what you declare is fixing all the countries and uniting Earth.
Because, rights and privileges (for example, developed country social safety net) is a kind of capital.
Obviously we can't completely equalize the playing field (like tall, good looking people getting better opportunities etc), but I do think we should do as much as we practically can. That's why yes, I do think we should strive for open borders even though it will be significantly non-beneficial to me as a birth-lottery winner.
Although practically I think it will only work out if all or almost all countries will open their borders at the same time, to prevent 100s of millions of people moving into any single country at once. I don't think this will happen in my life time but I sure hope it does.
And on a more concrete note - if I'll have a chance of helping someone from a poor country come to Germany e.g. via offering them employment/visa sponsorship - I will prefer doing that compared to hiring a local.
You also lie to these people: you tell them that by leaving their communities they will land in developed paradise, but when they arrive they only see themself as 3rd sort, shunned by locals, without prospect of fruitful employment. Of course they'll radicalize.
If you are serious about wanting to make world better, you should implement something like american Green Card but on grand scale. Pre-select qualified applicants by testing (build emigration schools for them perhaps, where they learn how to live in developed countries), distribute entrance permits via lottery, shape their flow, monitor their destiny so you can at any moment prove they are happier than ever, don't hurt the receiving society and productive.
But this is obviously harder than "just opening the gates wide open" or "blaming for the lack of aforementioned".
Moving from one place to another should be their decision, just like a citizen from a poor city can decide to move to a richer city in the same country (or if you wish, a citizen from a poor EU state can move to a rich EU state - same reason why I fully supported poorer countries like Bulgaria, Romania & Croatia joining the EU & hope to see Turkey joining as well at some point in the future).
Not granting them that freedom reduces class mobility, even thought it's not the only element in the equation. We should definitely additionally also try to fix the other factors reducing or limiting class mobility.
what in the hell are you talking about? what rights? they're out to GET THEIRS just like everyone else, and they're more than happy to screw you over for it, as they should be. does that not sit well with you? boo fuckin' hoo.
like it or not, brown people are going to continue to come to the US and work/live here like they have for decades if not centuries. you can't stop it no matter how passive aggressive you get on the internet. they might even be smarter and/or harder working than you, which is a shock, i'm sure. and they sure as shit don't have to listen to your cockamamey ideas of staying in a shithole and "fixing" things they have no inclination or obligation to fix.
learn how to compete or die. in the real world nobody gives a shit what your skin color is or what your passport says. you just sound like a pathetic loser when you moan about people taking "your" stuff. if it wasn't them, it'd be someone else, most likely of your own skin color. this is America, land of opportunity, not the land of protectionist nativist crybabies.
Because that would be Imperialism, which only the Russians and Chinese are allowed to engage in these days.
It's like expecting every successful black person to dedicate all their time and resources to "fix the black community" - they have every right to do whatever they wish with their lives just like anyone else.
OP is welcome to go to India and try to fix poverty there if they'd like, leaving behind western comforts & privileges.
If I were a moderately successful 70-year-old with that attitude, I'd blow my money on vacations or cars before I died instead of leaving money to parks, schools, or starting a scholarship fund.
I personally feel no greater obligation to help other Jews (I happen to be Jewish) than I do to help any other ethnicity in any other country.
And just by the happenstance that I happen to have been born in 1 country (in which I no longer live) I feel no stronger obligation to mark that country as my community rather than another.
> It alleviates the problem of the (often) explosive population growth
Is 0.1% of the population leaving really enough to actually help with this? I'm pretty skeptical of that.
As for your other points, it seems that they all could easily be countered by pointing out the extreme "brain drain" that countries like India are experiencing -- the 0.1% that they're losing are some of the most talented and educated members of their society. That can't be good for them.
But, is that politically possible? I would vote for serious resource investment in a plan for finishing the world poverty but I suspect it's not in the program of the political parties.
We prefer to organize military operations ¿!??, like the current European one against the "mafias" that "exploit" the Libyan illegal immigrants, instead of facing the roots of the problem.