immigration in society theme

We are asked how much immigration, if any, it is appropriate for a society to permit. One extreme is to disband all borders and the other is to build walls.

12 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 7 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ds92x10 choice Bajoran government did not permit Skrreea refugees to settled on Bajor
ent4x20 major Josiah expressed outrage that there were perhaps millions of "illegal aliens" living on Earth. Human xenophobes opposed aliens living on Earth.
movie: Alien Nation (1988) major People expressed hostility and resentment toward 300,000 space alien immigrants who had settled in Los Angeles.
movie: Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994) major The Newcomer space alien immigrants experienced were despised by a certain element of society.
movie: Dead End DriveIn (1986) major The youths in the concentration camp, save for Crabs, convinced themselves that Asians were to blame for their problems. This was probably intended to be a commentary on prejudice against immigration in Australia.
futurama7x03 minor Nixon promised to build a Dyson fence around the solar system to stop immigrants from coming to Earth and taking peoples jobs.
movie: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) minor It was mentioned in the opening narration about how the United States had locked up their recent immigrants in quarantine camps.
movie: Heavy Metal (1981) minor Harry complained about illegal aliens being in New York.
movie: Muppets from Space (1999) minor Speaking to a small crowd, Sam Eagle boasted of there being "no aliens here, only good, old-fashioned, hard-working Americans". While Sam was referring to space aliens, his remark is clearly a thinly veiled reference to illegal immigrants.
movie: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) minor Sarah quipped that Grace better had good luck trying to get an undocumented immigrant, Dani, through the Mexico/United States border. In the end, they tried to sneak across the border, and all ended up in a detention facility.