• ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Many of these immigrants are crossing other countries where they would be safe if they stopped there. Instead they choose to continue on to the US. At that point they are economic migrants, who are trying to skip the queue.

      It’s the same here in Australia. Instead of stopping in a safe country in SEA, they make dangerous boat voyages because they believe they’ll be better off financially. We turn those boats around or keep them offshore, where at anytime they could go somewhere other than Australia but they don’t want to because they want to try and seek welfare here.

      I have no sympathy for them. Let in the people who apply properly to come here. Not those who try to sneak in.

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        1 year ago

        Some have other options. So your solution is to condemn all of them? No sympathy, even for those who are fleeing death? You’ll let them all die because you think some people might take advantage?

        Why not have a system where you let people in, give them temporary safety, and evaluate their situation before deciding whether to admit them or return them to their country of origin?

        Maybe you like that some of them die? Is that a benefit of the current system?

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        1 year ago

        See, this is how I know you don’t know what you’re talking about because they’re not safe if they “just stop there”.