What should our border/migrant stance be?

[hunter]

91. In the future there are only two states in the Western Hemisphere. Those are Brazil and Canada.

They have a friendly open border somewhere on the isthmus of Panama. That border is not the Panama canal. The canal is mostly gone. Only bits and pieces of it remain, in ruins.

The words "America" and "American" are not used in polite company.

It's a Star Trek like world but without any "first contact" or aliens. There's a world government of sorts, but people of our time would have difficulty recognizing it as such. Nobody is hungry or homeless, there's universal health care, and most people simply don't have to work much unless they choose to. It's nearly impossible to be very wealthy or very poor. Most people don't pay attention to money at all.

Government still exists, mostly as a bureaucratic automation. What politicians remain spend most of their time arguing rancorously with other politicians about insignificant things and to little effect. They are mostly harmless.

Okay, back to the question.

I live in a place that used to be part of Mexico. Long before then it belonged to people who came to this continent many thousands of years ago. My father-in-law is about half native American. His American ancestors lived along the modern Mexico - U.S.A. border. In the nineteenth century they fled south to escape genocide and persecution by the U.S.A.. They returned in the twentieth century as Mexican farm laborers. My wife's dad was born in a migrant labor camp near a small orchard my parents once owned.

My Wild West ancestors claimed no animosity towards the Indians. Indeed, they'd express their good Christian concern for their well being and they romanticized Indian culture. Nevertheless, my grandfather lost his shit when my wife and I announced our intention to marry. In his family men simply didn't marry Indians or, in his own words, "Mexican girls." (Apparently it was okay to date them...) He boycotted or wedding. To his credit, he got over it.

My grandma loved her "Latin" neighbors and she spoke Spanish. (Sadly, she'd passed away before I met my wife.) My grandma wasn't an angel. She had nothing nice to say about the "Okies" and "white trash" who had inundated California during the Great Depression, seemingly expecting people like her affluent family to fire all their experienced and hard working "colored" and immigrant employees and hire them just because they were white and "real" U.S. Americans.

Many descendants of Dust Bowl refugees who settled in California are still nursing resentments about the reception they got.

There's a huge shit storm coming as global warming forces people to abandon their homes.

How we treat immigrants displaced from other nations is going to be reflected in how we treat our own displaced citizens. I don't expect "Florida Man" is going to receive a warm welcome in places less affected by global warming.

What goes around comes around.