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It is all about Western hypocrisy when it comes to dictatorships
As long as the democratic West maintains open policial and economic relations with the brutal dictatorships of the world and allows them to vent surplus (i.e. possibly revolutionary) populations through immigration, no change will be forth coming.
There is effectively nothing the US or EU do to foster human rights or political freedom in Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt, Noth Korea, etc. This disgusting Realpolitik approach stretches back to early Cold War (e.g. Portugal, Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan) and is the most disturbing vestige of that conflict.
And neither Clinton nor Obama are going to do anything different.