Poverty, Inequality In The US, Canada

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I agree you that my comment is hard to understand because poverty in a "first world" country still looks like luxury in many "third world" countries. It is a situation that the developed countries' population do not understand because they cannot understand what they don't live; it is not their reality. Even though I wished we should have a right to choose where to live, I understand the need for the U.S, Canada or any other more affluent place to protect their resources and its population. I also understand that there are legal ways to come here; however if I take my country, Brasil, as an example, only the people who is financially and socially stable will receive the American tourist visa. The burocracy is overwhelmed and the money you

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