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> What if those migrants just came by boat anyway? What are we going to do, let'em drown? What's wrong with rescuing them and then shipping them back to the co
by taway_1212 10y ago
> What if those migrants just came by boat anyway? What are we going to do, let'em drown?
What's wrong with rescuing them and then shipping them back to the coast they sailed off from? If they're on international waters, there are no legal obligations to treat them as asylum seekers.
- icebraining 10y agoIs it practical? As far as I know, unless they're citizens, the countries of such coasts aren't obligated to accept them. And it's often not clear where they're actually from. Plus, what if they're from a war zone?
- taway_1212 9y agoIn the case I have in mind (people trying to get from Lybia to Italy), there's no country to speak of in Lybia currently. Even if there were and it wouldn't agree to the EU ship entering their waters, you can always get very near to the water border, inflate another raft for the people and board them on it. They'd have to sail to Lybia by themselves. The bigger picture is that these situations would very quickly stop happening if the word spread that it's not longer viable as a way to get into the EU.
- icebraining 9y agoI wonder if returning them to Libya is actually better than letting them drown.
- cryptarch 9y agoHow will you tell where to ship them if they've discarded their passports?
- taway_1212 9y agoShip them to the shore they came from, not their home country. The whole operation could take a couple hours, not weeks/months/years of paper-pushing.
- cryptarch 9y agoHow do you find out where they came from? And is it at all plausible to survey enough of the sea to catch even half of refugees coming in by boat?