Tessa Schlesinger
2 min readNov 14, 2024

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Martin, you make excuses for people doing wrong things. Crossing into another country is illegal. It is breaking the law.

I don't care what went wrong in their own countries. I am, essentially, a refugee without refugee status. In my last year in South Africa, I got assaulted three times.

However, I would get arrested if I tried to get into another country without the necessary papers. That's because I'm white.

South Africa is the most violent country in the world outside an active war zone. In terms of murders, more people die there than in Gaza currently. It has the highest rape numbers in the world, with something like 40% of women getting raped. You don't find South Africans fleeing to other countries illegally.

We all take the legal route.

I had no chance of entering America legally. So I entered the Diversity Lottery and I won. It didn't work for me, though. I have no time for status and competition. I want to do good.

I also beg to differ. If Mexico cannot absorb millions, nor can America. The very fact that most people have voted for Trump is indicative of how much millions of illegal immigrants affect housing markets, low wages, and everything else.

You assume that if people don't want illegal immigrants, that they are racist. I made it my business during the last few years to sit in on conservative and liberal conversations. They are both wrong about each other.

The left, in both the UK and the US, appear to be bereft of any common sense. The right appears to believe in gods, class systems, and Donald Trump.

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