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Open up safe legal routes then, the lack of which is the main reason why the boat smugglers even have a business. But doing so would get asylum seekers out of
by philjohn 4y ago
Open up safe legal routes then, the lack of which is the main reason why the boat smugglers even have a business.
But doing so would get asylum seekers out of the collective conciousness, which has been politically advantageous to the incumbent party.
- Veen 4y agoI don't see how it has been advantageous to the incumbent party since they have conspicuously failed to prevent the problem.
- themitigating 4y agoIf they fix the problem that removes a reason to vote for them.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoIn several places in the world, the local Conservative party incites / leverages "fear of the other" to the mainstream. If the problem were to either be fixed or go away, they would lose major, major recruiting impetus. I'm not necessarily interested in following through the more tenuous links. But illegal immigrants are an absolute boom to Conservative parties. It's a recruitment, it's a distraction, it's an effective and frequent emotional lever.