There are certainly a lot of refugees thanks to climate change and there will be more. This is certainly a big problem for the world.
The refugees, peaceloving (because they flee war) and entrepeneurial (you have to be to travel long distances on foot or boat with no visa) tend to be exactly the people we want in this country. Somalian refugees have made Buffalo, NY great again. So there's your answer. It's the one Canada is adopting. Grab the refugees ASAP, before another country gets them -- they're the best and the brighest, and we want to benefit from these countries' sad brain drain.
This isn't racist Germany or France. (Well, I don't know about the Deep South, but up here in the Northeast it isn't.) The younger generation in the Northeast and West Coast is on board with hardworking, peaceloving refugees.
The demographic trends are guaranteed death for the Republican Party, which has for bizarre reasons:
(a) tripled down on racism, now being systematically bigoted against black, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Asian people, as well as mixed-race people, which means basically everyone;
(b) doubled down on misogyny, which is exceptionally unpopular among women, and also unpopular among younger men;
(c) openly declared hostility to cities (starving them of funding and redirecting their taxes to the countryside), defying the 10,000-year trend of urbanization and guaranteeing that rich white male city-dwellers who would otherwise support Republicans will support Democrats (this is happening *very consistently*);
and of course (d) attempted to impoverish 99% of the population into serfs while creating an unaccountable billionaire overlord class -- fairly successfully; there's been no gains in pre-tax income for 50% of the US population since 1980;
Oh. Then they (e) drag the serfs into destructive and pointless foreign wars. Eventually the serfs become pretty cynical...
Oh, and (f) they're also alienating most of the new class of white male billionaires from the tech industry, because they're *just that deranged*.
It's perhaps no surprise that having deliberately alienated practically everyone, they are now openly trying to destroy democracy by election theft, gerrymandering, etc. The Republican leadership knows they can't win honest elections any more, so they cheat.
It is true that as young people get older and experience life, their vote patterns are changing... they're voting LESS Republican and MORE Democratic, like the rest of the country. (Last I checked, every birth-year bracket is voting less Republican than they did 10 years ago.)
(If the Republicans were replaced with a different, saner second party, that would be different; the Democrats would bleed support to that new party immediately. You can tell this by the huge and growing numbers of independents.)
This is by way of explaining my "disagree".
