Memories of the 28th Century

I find it somewhat amusing that people are still making noise about people trying to immigrate to the U.S. without noticing that most of the immigrants are more interested in leaving their present location and situation, and they just want to live in a less unpleasant place. Whether they are fleeing economic problems, bad government, dangerous street gangs, civil war, or whatever, they want to escape a bad place. Refugees from Syria are fleeing from a civil war in which several other country are supporting rebels against the legitimate government, so that they, the rebels, can make the country an orthodox Islam paradise. Eritrean refugees are fleeing an economically disadvantaged country that has been paying off they dictator of twenty-five years. Immigrants from Africa are mostly fleeing failed economies and economies that have been plundered by dictators; although some are trying to get away from insurgents. Central Americans are immigrating to get away from criminal gangs, bad economic conditions, and bad government. Those are just a few examples.

We should also think about where they are going: Sweden, Germany, France, the UK, The U.S.A., Italy, Denmark, Canada, etc. All of those are places with decent living standards, fair economic policies, decent government, and no active civil wars. I can understand why people would want to go from the poor and nasty to the wealthy and safe places. Obviously those people are trying to improve humanity by saving the intelligent.
I think it is a mistake to discourage the people who are fleeing the bad, but I don't think that moving them to countries that already good living conditions is the best course. If we were to assist the would-be emigrants in improving their own countries, then everyone would gain. The U.S.A. has in the past invaded countries to assist in improving local conditions, and doing that more would be a better idea than leaving military personnel in bases in Germany and in the U.S. The people are being paid and equipped already. Let's send them into places that need help, so they could change the regime, set up schools, factories, and markets and to build more and better housing, so those people would have at home what they are going great distances to get now. After a few years of education they could elect their own leaders, and the U.S. troops and other personnel could leave.

Consider Guatemala for one, the military is no match for the U.S. army, so we could go in there and take complete control with minimal damage to them or us. A State Department government building brigade could take control of the government and start rebuilding it, so that it would be less likely to have corruption. The contingent from the Department of Agriculture could expand farmland and reclaim some of what was productive land when the Maya were in control, and the Department of Commerce could modernize trade and manufacturing. Within a couple of years the U.S. improvement team could leave, and Guatemala would be in shape to support all of its people as well as Germany can support its people.

Honduras has a problem with criminal gangs, so those would have to be wiped out or provided with other things to keep themselves busy, and after recreational drugs were legalized everywhere there wouldn't be as much criminal activity available to keep the gang members busy.
The Middle East would provide other problems, religious and ethnic tensions that have been there for a long time. Syria is the great emitter of migrants recently, and that country was held together quite well for decades by a coalition of the small groups, small religions and small ethnic groups. Those small groups knew they were be hash, if the majority took control, so they were willing to put up with a regime that wasn't the pleasantest. Propping up such a regime would be easy, because the small groups in Syria are nearly fifty percent of the population. No one would be happy with the result, but they would be willing to live in a place where it was legal to be whatever they are.

After cleaning up the emitters of migrants, it might even be possible to get some of the migrants to go back where they came from, and Kosovo would become a part of Serbia again.

For the African problems it would be a good idea to use Africans, but mercenaries were the only successful military units there for decades, and they might work again. We could send in a real training operation and create a seed of a large, modern military unit, one that would heed international standards and refrain from rape any murder of the civilians. Beefing up the Nigerian Army and using part of that as the core of the new unit might help. For Congo it would be nice if we could get Bob Denard back but having a zombie heading the army wouldn't sit well with many of the local cultures.

But seriously, eliminating the reasons for people to migrate in great numbers would help everyone, and it would make their home countries strong and wealthy.