(10-02-2024, 10:35 PM)mikesez Wrote: There is a better argument to have about the Haitians in Springfield. It's not "should they be here". It's "should they all move to the same place".
Both France and Germany, since the 1960s, have made it easy for foreigners to legally come to their country. The French government pays little attention to where in the country they choose to live, and inevitably they end up all clustered together in "bad" neighborhoods of big cities. They don't assimilate very well and it reinforces racial stereotypes. The German government is different. They more or less assign foreigners cities and villages to live in as they come. So everywhere gets some. They are intentionally mixed up. The poorer ones end up in big ugly public housing towers, but this is still all mixed in terms of race and national origin.
And guess what. France is now known to have religious and racial riots from time to time. Germany is not. Germany assimilates people better, and probably we should be more like them. The people with temporary protected status are not citizens. Our government should have some leeway to direct them to move to a certain area or not.