At the risk of sounding self-righteous

AN unjustly erroneous perception persists of migrants and even refugees basically willfully/contently becoming permanent financial/resource burdens on their host nations. There is so much unwarranted contempt for these people, yet so many are rightfully despondent, perhaps enough so to work very hard in cashless exchange for basic food and shelter.

I would ask their critics if the latter would not help a freezing and/or drowning person into their lifeboat if there was the least bit of room to spare? Often conveniently ignored is the fact that many migrants are fleeing globalwarming-related extreme weather events and chronic crop failures in the southern hemisphere widely believed to be related to the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, beginning with the Industrial Revolution. If they feel they must, the critics should get angry at the politicians who supposedly allow in “too many” migrants; please do not criticise the desperate people for doing what we would all likely do if in their dreadful position. And what ever happened to our self-professed Christian charity and compassion, anyway?