In 2015, by virtue of having a recently abandoned army barracks, my declining hometown of ~10,000 received more than 2,000 refugees. Almost ten years later, it has more doctors, restaurants, and lively playgrounds than anyone can remember. The shrinking school stayed open.
If you think "dumping" a "flood" of immigrants on small towns is awful, please tell me your plan to save those places. Because I've been looking for alternatives for a decade, and immigrants are really the only thing that saves these towns from decline.
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