Migrants

The distinction between refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants
Is as repulsive as racism itself.
The very essence of humanity is migration
Nobody wants to be left on the shelf.

Our descendants all originally migrated from Africa
In search of food and a safer place to live
Those that would make criminals out of migrants
Commit a crime that is impossible to forgive.

At the core of every new wave of migration
Is scarcity and oppression and war.
And if the West insists on occupying other nations
Expect a few more million to be knocking on the door.

Of course the solution to this seemingly intractable dilemma
Is global governance with equality at its core
A restructuring of the entire global system
That extracts profit out of the misery of the poor.

So beware of politicians with glib solutions
Who seek to demonise and humiliate our fellow man
And beware of the newspaper headlines
Who pander to the prejudices and fears of the common man.

Remember that every nation is made up entirely of migrants
And the USA is the most cosmopolitan of them all
And without the continued renewal by migration
All nations are destined to fall.

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