US - raise the gas tax

[Deesse23]

Article 1 of the Convention as amended by the 1967 Protocol defines a refugee as: "A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it."

Sorry, but i dont see this applying to the people at the US-mexican border. Nevertheless imho the way certain political entities tried and are still trying to exploit the situation for political gains is still repugnant.

That being said, i see this situation quite analogous to the one we had in Europe not so long ago (altough, Syrian refugees could claim having the status according to 1967 because of an ongoing civil war with international participation). From my perspective, such a situation is not so much about legal status, but a matter of basic human decency. One should not need to have a UN charter to tell him what to do when a bunch of people consisting of entire families are already standing at your borders, having made way for hundreds if not thousands of miles, mostly without any means of transportation, thereby risking their lives.

You may be entirely right to not grant them access to your country, you may be entitled to tear gas them after they damage your fences and try to violate your territory, but being the most wealthy fucking nation on the globe as a whole, with obscene riches of financial wealth as well as accomodations and supply of food, leading to such disgusting displays of waste and decadence as depicted below, being this country, you are still the asshole...as a whole nation, not necessarily each individual.

It has been mentioned afaik that there is a reason many countries south of Texas and California are shitholes, and US foreign policy has quite a lot to do with it in many cases (not all, or entirely!). If anything this should be a reminder to US politicians to strive for mutual benefit in interacting with those countries and their people, less than taking maximum advantage of them according to MAGA (because thats what it really is about if we are honest with ourselves), instead of taking politcal advantage too.