I actually really like Denmark’s tough and restrictionist approach to immigration, in their context, but I agree with you they’re a very different country than we are and I’m not suggesting that the Democrats should do the same thing. I posted those links because the Social Democrats are, at least vaguely, a center left, social democratic party that has some overlap with the political space that the Democrats in the US occupy. It wouldn’t be impossible for the Democrats to take a tougher line on immigration. Whether they should or not is a separate question.
This would be an insane idea. People are very often neither objective judges of their own situation, but leaving that aside, I’m concerned about major problems for the common good, and for the country as a whole, not for the individuals in question.
Your own views, in particular, might be cited as very strong evidence for this position.
But we shouldn’t let your personal faults color our opinion of our most other people, who are in some relevant cases better judges of their own situation than you are.
Historically, the people who did the most violence and damage to the common good were the very same people who failed to realize that the common good is nothing more than the sum of individuals. That’s how come we got regimes murdering millions of the people, all for the sake of the people. Or, for another example relevant to this thread, building walls and shooting people who tried to leave a shitty situation instead of trying to repair the shitty situation that made them want to leave. The blatant destruction of the common good, all in the name of the common good.
And all because the murderous assholes in charge thought other people’s views of their own situation didn’t count.