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Every single person who ever did anything did it under the claims of wanting a better life. To go full Godwins principle that was literally Hitlers reasoning for war that the German people needed more land………for a better life for the German people.
The reasoning you are giving is the exact reasons why I assume they want to come to America.
Just because the migrants are doing something in their best interests doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect me as an American citizen.
Everyone who’s ever invaded anyone has done it for the reasons you expressed. I never said it was what is known as a conspiracy theory.
We seem to be in agreement that there's no malicious intent. But if there isn't, then it isn't an invasion no matter how many people come over. Even if people immigrating for honorable reasons were to fundamentally change the nature of the country (which again, it won't in my opinion), if that isn't the reason they are coming over it doesn't matter. It is absurd to say that people immigrating into a country, one which is known for welcoming them, becomes an invasion when enough of them do so.
I don’t think malicious intent is required for it to be an invasion.
I mean COVID doesn’t want to kill people. It just wants to spread and replicate but that doesn’t mean it’s not a deadly disease. The underlying virus lacks malicious intent.
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