NahnCee: “Like, if they spent half the energy on reworking where they came from as they do escaping from it, wouldn’t *that* be interesting?”

What a cruel and stupid comment. Just what do you expect unarmed peaceful people to do when they have a gun pointed at their head and know what’s coming? My parents both survived the Holocaust by some miracle. They would have left Poland after Hitler invaded if there had been an opportunity. They certainly were in no position to fight back. Do you think it was any different for the Vietnamese who ran away? How about the half million dead in mass graves that we uncovered in Iraq? Was it their fault too? What about the thirty million who died in Stalin’s Gulags? Or the uncounted millions that were killed in Mao’s purges and Great Leap Forward? If only…

You have no idea what the rest of the world is like because the US is heaven on earth. If you want some practice in “re-working” maybe you should learn Spanish. Then go to Cuba and loudly criticize the government in a public square. With luck they’ll only throw you out of the country. See if any of the locals are willing to stand there and support you.