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Oh shit. This is me and my wife, except we are millennials. Both children of refugees who went back overseas.
Vietnam war veterans drive an entire industry of retirement communities in Vietnam. They fought communism only to go live in it by choice. In Ecuador, healthcare is free over the age of 55, so many people on that flight are Americans with expensive health conditions flying down to get it taken care of for free. Probably the same people who complain about immigrants in the USA. So even the boomers are involved. I guess it's a trend. The article highlights immigrant children because it's easier for us to get out and get long term visas or just ride our second passports. I have passport access to my country in SE Asia and my wife has access to the Andean community, as well as my children, and every time I fly out of one of those countries they offer to extend Andean citizenship to me. Immigrant children probably face tougher situation than the rest of the population at large...it's already difficult for ALL young people to get established in an increasingly hostile USA, now combine it with unique immigrant issues like poverty and parents who don't have social status, no family ties and networking status, and now overt racism. It's frightening, why do all of that just to potentially deal with medical bankruptcy from a diagnosis when you have access to cheaper places with better care?