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I don't get immigration system. Why can't I just walk into a country's borders and just live there? Why should I have to get kicked out because I seem "unfit" for a country.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Once upon a time, immigration systems didn't exist and people could walk anywhere they wanted. In fact, immigration systems are extremely recent, historically.

Immigration systems achieve something very important: they help to further subjugate layers of the working class and divide them. Immigrant workers have to deal with very long processing times, forcing them to accept very low wages and horrible conditions, and reaching parity with citizen's working conditions and pay becomes a dream.

This way, corporations and capitalists receive cheaper labor and a weaker working class they won't have to fight.

Of course, there are other purposes it serves, but that is a pretty big one.