The ease with which those who choose to take the road to the desert and the sea in search of a better tomorrow or a dream that present realities make inaccessible are judged leads us to wonder if those who criticize those who choose to pursue their dreams elsewhere by taking risky means are aware of what a deep feeling of unhappiness can lead an individual to do. How is it that despite the dangerousness of the route there are always candidates for adventure? The answer to this question lies in the question of why despite the potential and opportunities, the spaces from which they come are still poor?
Even if we feel bad about the dangerousness of the choice adopted by certain individuals to realize in other places a dream that they believe to have lost at the local level, it will not change anything. The risk is risky but it is worth taking for those who are convinced that it is better to seek success elsewhere even if many voices seek to dissuade them. It is precisely certain of these alarmist, convinced and convincing voices, some of whom have built their certainties on an experience that they themselves have experienced, who tell Africans in particular and others that Europe is not Eldorado commonly understood as a “chimerical space where we have everything in abundance and where life is easy”. But if it is not in Europe that Eldorado which we consider rather to be the place where the best opportunities for work and social success are found, where is it located? In Africa? In the United States? In China? In Canada? In Oceania? In Asia? The answer to these questions which can vary from one individual to another is complex because we always start from something palpable or not, depending on the contexts and individuals to make a good projection into the future which corresponds exactly to what we want. Can we tell a young African medical doctors who lives in precarious conditions that Canada is not Eldorado when it is there that they are really offered a decent job? Are we going to say the same thing to an illegal alien who has managed to get a job that meets his expectations in Europe or in a continent other than Africa? Or even to a group of individuals who have managed to flee countries at war or societies where women do not have the right to higher or even secondary education?
Through legal immigrations and especially those considered as illegals which are of particular interest to us, aware in the vast majority of the fact that there are no spaces where life is easy, those who embark on the adventure show that 'they are ready to do anything to succeed because each perception is the consequence of one or more realities that we experience and of the obstacles that we are ready to face and overcome not only during a tedious journey but also within a set of enviable environments which also have their difficulties. It is because of this unfailing determination that a patriarch said to young Cameroonians in particular and to a certain extent to all young Africans in general that: “Leave, yes, but not to any price. In addition, know that while you aspire to leave, many foreigners are trying to settle in Cameroon, confirming that it is a welcoming land, and a country of opportunities." But with this clarification that those who choose to leave or who aspire to leave no longer have any future perspective in this space, while those who come or who try to settle in the space in question, have reason to hope because they have the means to realize their development projects which primarily benefit their countries of origin which concretely encourage them to settle elsewhere by granting them the necessary financial support. If African leaders want their nationals to no longer take perilous paths to succeed abroad, they must find a way to further multiply and facilitate job opportunities. It is not a question of minimizing or even trivializing the important efforts undertaken, but rather of clarifying that they are not sufficient enough to dissuade those who choose to look elsewhere despite all the obstacles they encounter on their way.
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The search for a better tomorrow towards other horizons is always the consequence of a chronic unhappiness which denotes refusal to continue to endure an unsatisfactory daily life. Even if the vast majority of them come from different Territories, all illegal immigrants have this in common that they are no longer able to cope with poverty, famine, unemployment, war, conflicts, and all the other miserable situations, relating to multiple political instabilities and other mismanagement of available resources in their respective countries of origin.
The fact of no longer having hope in a given Territory is a sufficient reason to look elsewhere at all costs in the sense of a very difficult but morally acceptable human effort, while being aware of the fact that these choices may prove to be unacceptable or even inhumane for others who also have the freedom to express themselves on the subject.
The desire and urgency for a change long hoped for and so delayed or even non-existent because of cruelty, hypocrisy, selfishness, or better still the inability of leaders to respond satisfactorily to the concerns of the populations, has led to a rush towards illegal means to succeed, even when one is aware that the chosen path is extremely dangerous.
