i'm a very poor person. i'm disabled. i live on a very small fixed income that i get from the province (paid for by the city via property taxes). when influxes of migrants or refugees show up here, i have to compete with them for housing, and that pisses me off, but i don't want to blame them, i want to blame the government that created the problem. we need less refugees in canada right now while we sort out our housing problems. that's the fault of policies by successive federal governments, and we have the right to make those choices, as a sovereign state. 

however, i don't want to support a policy that attacks migrant rights. i want to support the free movement of migrants, subject to the realities of scarcity and availability. i want to tell migrants that canada is not the best place for them right now, and they should look for somewhere with more available resources to redistribute, where competition for survival is less fierce, and overpopulation is less of a problem. 

these are both real issues that need to be balanced. capitalism is built on the premise of artificial scarcity. it's the idea that makes the system function.

in the united states, there is a tendency to try to protect migrants by setting up things like "sanctuary cities". this is walking right into a trap.

if you are a homeless person or an illegal immigrant or perhaps even a political dissident, donald trump wants to capture you, to charge you with a bullshit crime and to enslave you in a factory to provide labour for his reshoring project, like it was in the late 19th century, the era that he wants to bring back to make america "great again", and that is a policy with a long history in the united states that will be difficult to reverse once it gets set in place. it is the idea that the united states was actually founded on.

activists in the united states should be trying to get the migrants out of the country.