Comment on Home Office denies British baby living in Thailand chance to meet great-grandfather in UK

• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, no need to villainize French people

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What I said was largely pro immigration. I’m critical of the home office policies.

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  • idealism_nearby@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The third paragraph sounds like you’re opposing immigration

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Most immigration isn’t done by paying criminal gangs to help you skirt past immigration controls by throwing you on a dodgy inflatable dinghy and sailing across the English channel so you can enter the country unvetted.

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      • idealism_nearby@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Aaaaand there it is.

        According to the UN convention on the treatment of refugees:

        1. There is no “legally acceptable” way to travel to a safe country. Ergo dinghys are acceptable
        2. There is no limitations on how many safe countries you can travel THROUGH before applying for asylum status. As long as you apply for asylum status.

        In addition:

        • Asylum spending is 0.25% of the budget. Oil subsidies are 2%. Priorities?
        • Asylum seekers are not entitled to regular UK benefits. They get treated as asylum seekers, i.e. they can’t work, have to stay in a hotel (certainly not nice ones), and basically are treated like 2nd class citizens until they have been here long enough to be considered “allowed to work”, which used to be 2 years, they were considering upping it to 5 years. Which is dumb.

        So please for the love of the gods, educate yourself, and be less hateful.

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