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Wouldn't this encourage others to take the same risk? Not all will succeed. It'd become some sadistic Hunger Games-esque style of immigration control.
by secondcoming 3y ago
Wouldn't this encourage others to take the same risk? Not all will succeed. It'd become some sadistic Hunger Games-esque style of immigration control.
- constantcrying 3y agoSee what is happening on the Mediterranean. Again and again people are dying because they are baited to make extremely risky crossings.
- arrowsmith 3y agoAlso see what happened in Australia: the government took a hard-line approach to the boats and sent a clear message that those who arrived illegally would be deported. So the boats stopped coming, saving countless lives.
- secondcoming 3y agoI'm well aware of what's happening in the Med, and in the English Channel. The latter is even more perplexing. People are risking their lives to leave a safe country, France, to get into the UK. Until recently, most of those making the asylum boat journey from France to the UK, were actually from Albania. They were being sent over to work in gangs involved in drug and human trafficking. It's all coordinated.
- qwytw 3y agoI wonder how could any semi rational person downvote this comment? Why would you think outsourcing your immigration policy to people's smugglers could ever be a good idea? Forcing people to risk their lives by giving them the impression that they will be allowed to stay if they give up all of their (and possibly their extended family's saving to people smugglers who are just likely to literally sell them so slavery) just seems extremely cruel..