re: #222 ProLifeLiberal

Good of New Zealand! They deserve a cookie.

Still, just 11k. That’s not even register-able in gain terms for the US. Hell, we probably gain that or so in a week.

I worry less about the raw numbers—though they may eventually become an issue in regions with less infrastructure—but rather how this will come down culturally. Refugees always take flak, but as this scales up in intensity they’re going to be more NIMBYism, more nativism, and quite likely a big jump in open prejudice. There’s a converse threat of ideologues exploiting desperate people, too: Africa’s already got fundies hunting witches and local chieftains playing jihadi…add drought and all that’s going to inflate.