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Originally posted by Goosey
Countries want immigrants who are skilled, well-off and educated. Western Europe and Canada immigrants tend to be better-off, more skilled and more educated than Latin Americans, the countries are richer with better social and education systems.
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Western Europe has the Schengen Area, are you really comparing that? Movement is much less restricted in Europe. Your own country has easier channels to immigrate for any person not a child of a Canadian citizen compared to the US despite having a much smaller economy and being more geographically isolated.
When it comes to entering the US there are student and work sponsorship visas, exchanges for high schools, summer schools, universities and funding is made available to harbor relationships between the US and Western Europe and other predominantly white countries. You don't need to be highly skilled, just born into the right adjacent country like you - Canadians have a simplified entry system to the US. Mexicans don't, because they were born on the wrong side of the United States.
But hey, that's their fault right? They shouldn't try to better their lives (or save their lives) by entering a country that has hundreds of billions to spend blowing up the Middle East annually because they might compete for a job as a gardener or waitress. Best they stay in poverty and danger because America is full (unless you're from a predominantly white country, as already stated. But again, race isn't a factor. Nope.)