American Refugees

“Imagine if you will, the unimaginable”, in my Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone voice.
The USA is struck with a horrific catastrophe where the entire continental US must be evacuated immediately. Alaska and Hawaii and Puerto Rico as well as all of the other US Territories immediately shut their borders to avoid a strain on their resources.
What horrific situation you may ask. Didn’t I just ask you to use “YOUR” imagination in my very first line? C’mon y’all pay attention!
Anyway, a vast majority of Americans head in droves for the Canadian Border. Simply because even in such a dire emergency, a large number of Americans would still consider themselves “too good” for our neighbor to the south, Mexico. The lines for American Refugees to enter Canada are, at the very least, 10 times longer than the lines to enter Mexico. However, there is a huge problem at both borders. Both the Canadian & Mexican governments are afraid that Americans are weak & sickly as well as criminals that are prone to violence. They reason with themselves, why else would the US lead the world in health care costs and mass incarceration, if they weren’t weak, sickly and criminally violent. These statistics along with the fact that Americans own the most guns per capita and averages more than 1 mass shooting per day. Yes, unfortunately, the “cold hard facts” give credence to these American stereotypes cast a stigma upon all Americans. Many Mexicans/Canadians want to keep all Americans out because they interpret these stats to say that Americans are weak, sickly, gun toting, violent criminals. Some of the Mexican/Canadian citizenry are OK with American Refugees crossing their border but only if the Americans are vigorously vetted, labeled or branded and kept in internment camps totally separate for the safety of the Mexican/Canadian general population. Others say it’s too dangerous to let Americans in and want to build an impenetrable wall on both the Canadian and Mexican borders and force the Americans to foot the bill for both walls.