As I’m viewing from a distance, let me try and explain something to the citizen of North America, the population of the United States of America;

You claim you have issues with immigrants crossing your borders, you say? You seem to think they take your jobs, steal your packages, rob your stores, buy your houses, invade your safe neighborhood and introduce crime, do you? And you seem to think they need to be ‘registered’ to live in the USA, so you deem they’re ‘illegal’ until they do, and therefore you need ICE and border patrol to catch them, throw them in jails and send them back to where they allegedly came from?

You live on a huge bulk of land, with a population density of 38 humans per square kilometer. Even if you would let massive numbers of immigrants illegally enter your country, you would still have enough room/land/housing options left to allow at least double your entire current population in, have them all live in your forests and you wouldn’t even notice it! You think people crossing your borders to come live there with you is an issue? 38/km2, you have got to be kidding me?! Honestly, for someone in Europe, the Netherlands, you look and sound like pathetic little whiny toddlers, sobbing over having to share some of your possessions with other human beings.

With your population density you truly cannot have issues with immigrants.

Just for comparison, we here in The Netherlands are living with 547 humans per square kilometer and hardly complain about immigrants, compared to how you seem to be doing it. We have no ICE, no border patrol, and things are reasonably safe still.

If you could do population management at a worldwide level, you would look at the current density and available resources, yes? That would be the most viable and survivable solution. Perhaps tweaked a little towards actual habitable land, because steep rocky mountains can be pretty hard to try and survive on. But that’s besides the point;
As we are already at 547 humans per km2 in The Netherlands, in Canada by comparison that’s 4 per km2, in Spain 96/km2, in Denmark there are around 142 humans/km2. Just some examples. It’s absurd that not one world leader with half of a brain comes up with decent dividing of habitable land by now. Not even a proposition to that end. Hell no; All they’re doing is pulling up walls, protecting resources for their own, keeping it for themselves (and preferably with underpaid slaves working and producing for them at the other side of the wall).

Nobody inherited land on earth, they’re all just pretending to have ownership of it. This (strictly human) game of pretend ownership will all come tumbling down when shit hits fans in densely populated areas, when mass migrations will be the unavoidable norm. And the masses will know exactly where the least densely populated areas are, because food options are better there!
The Netherlands *should* therefore be a totally uninteresting area to want to move to. There’s no food (options) here, there are huge waste storage, recycling, sewage and pollution issues, because the land is too densely occupied by humans not to have any of those problems. The NL relies on 17 times its own land area to feed its population. At some point in time we’ll have to divide habitable land over the remaining humans equally, not like it is divided now.

Our population density would be enough ground for a radical stop to immigration, yet all they do is make it an extreme right-wing issue, which will make it impossible to even discuss this in Dutch/global politics properly. The end-result of our current non-strategy regarding population management will be that the crowded areas will slowly be forced to arm and protect themselves to the extreme, where each rich family will build a castle with enormous security shields around it, so they can keep growing food on their ‘property’ and survive. Is that what we want?

The great golden new-lib way that supposedly works miracles for any economy seems to have made mush and mulch of many “rock star economies” to the extent that the filthy rich land owning nations can’t afford basic social welfare improvements or even local refugees. Which is all utter nonsense: We know it’s just that the neo-libs currently in power and paid for by the Big Corp money boys (fossil fuels and big agri livestock industries) want to avoid setting a precedent ’cause they know what’s coming down the road, and it’ll soon enough turn into an endless flood of humanity once they open the doors. Which should be done anyway, especially since it was our governments who turned the thermostat up, broke the machine to begin with, bombed or sanctioned masses of people out of their stable living environments.

So, in short, you people in America should stop your whining about migrants already, quit your insane gestapo mindset. Maybe, just maybe, look at how others are dealing with migrants first, copy their methods of sharing land with refugees. Only when you reach a density like that of Italy (200) or Germany (240), you’re allowed to think about nagging on the world stage about having a need for curbing immigration. Grow up, you weak-ass wussies. ICE exists because most of you are selfish xenophobic cowards.