• Superfool@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t know what the solution to the migration crisis is, but I think history will look back on the Rwanda plan very unfavourably.

    While not wishing to conflate genuine refugees with people who are entering the UK illegally, I feel that the hazardous journey people are willing to endure to get here suggests a far worse reality they are leaving. Is it not inhumane to refuse them entry?

    On the other hand, the UK does not have finite resources. Our public services have been whittled away for decades. The NHS is on life support, the Police and social services are hopelessly overwhelmed. Schooling is at breaking point.

    Eorope has no incentive to do anything but just drum migrants though the Calais border, but they pretty much did that anyway before Brexit.

    What is the viable and humane solution?

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      6 months ago

      You’re right or wrong depending on the country in Eorope. Some countries offered migrants asylum, but the migrants left for UK anyway. UK’s fame is larger than life.

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        6 months ago

        It makes a fair bit of sense for someome that already speaks English to want to claim asylum in an English-speaking country, and a lot of people already speak at least some English. They’ve got a far better chance of being able to make a life for themselves if they can already converse with everyone.