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If you have a skilled occupation, it's easy. Just leave. There are cars, buses and planes that easily can you take to another country. Even if you're unskilled, you could find a entry job and work your way up from there. It is best to get a visa to live somewhere else first but it can be done retrospectivly and nobody else treats you like a criminal like ICE does. There is nothing stopping you except yourself - I say this as someone who has lived in multiple different countries around the world (not one just next to each other either a la Europe) - many USians say they should leave and they never do. It'll literally be the best thing you do to make your life better.
Edit: I don't care about the downvotes. If "aww...but meemah will miss me" is a problem then stay there. I don't care. You make your own bed. If you actually want a better life, you'd find a way. Don't bitch about it if you've got no desire to actually fix your life.
And I do realise this is a form of privilege. I was brought up in a stable home which allowed me to go my own way. And the privalege to say to my parents, sorry, I'm leaving you to fend for yourself as I need something better for my family. It was hard. They haven't been prouder of me that I was willing to abandon them. To them, they'd done their job and raised a child willing to fight for what they needed to live. What was better is that I was able to bring them out to join me and they enjoyed the better life too.
It's not easy. The oversimplification here is absolutely off the wall. You don't know their situation, so saying "just leave" in the most blasé way possible because you were lucky enough for it to be easy for you is borderline insulting. Family, pets, financial situation, medical situation, and so many other factors play a role in why someone can't up and leave. It costs a lot to immigrate and move thousands of miles away. Not to mention language barriers.
Fuckl their "situation". If they want it, they can do it. Get in a car, grab the dog, cross the border.
Don't be a fuckwit. If these people really wanted to do it, they could. All their doing is virtue signalling until they do.
"I wanna leave". "it's too hard".
Fuck no it's not. You've got borders. CROSS THEM!!!!
Good lord. Island nation folks be sitting here looking at you thinking WTF.
What a boneheaded reply. Don't be a fuckwit. Cut the ableism, lack of awareness, personal privilege, and national differences. What are people with disabilities supposed to do? People who don't or can't drive? People talking care of their infirmed family? People without the thousands of dollars needed to enter a country and live there without a job until they find one that will sponsor them?
According to you, they should take the risk on being sent back to the US poorer than when they started, end up homeless in a strange place, and/or let their family members die alone without support.
I say this as a US citizen trying to get out and having done a TON of digging into what it takes to leave here specifically and go to a European country. There's more involved than you seem to know. And a boatload of risks.
Not everyone lives where and how you do.
True family would support you leaving them to find a better life. They'd be sad but happy for you. Happens every day all over the world in all families.
Is it ableist, yep probably. And it sucks, but if you have the means, use it. Don't waste the opportunity. Build the networks, make a life elsewhere and then get your family out to join you. Why do you think families pool their resources to send their fittest, youngest and most economically likely to succeed across borders or on boats to Europe, or walking to the US for example. The "where are the families of this isn't an invasion" crowd are either stupid or purposely dog whistling when they say this btw.