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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by ardy42 on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:57AM (#23346998)
> If not done officially, but everyone knows that by being a political activist you can get foreign citizenship, you have just motivated people to fight!

No, I think you'd end up motivating more to flee: a lot of people won't fight unless their backs' are against the wall.

You'd also probably end up stabilizing a bunch of nasty regimes by giving them someplace to dump their dissidents without inviting much backlash.

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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by toxik on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:16AM (#23347114)
Political asylum is a very common cause for immigration though, so isn’t this already the case?
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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by kelnos on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:43AM (#23347721)
I think people view political asylum as a last resort, though, and it's generally not all that easy to get, at least in the "more desirable" countries.
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Re:U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row wit... by luckylion on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:46AM (#23348078)
It's certainly not trivially easy, but it's also not that hard, and even if you get denied, you will generally be allowed to stay unless you're from a small set of countries. Deportation is rare in Europe.
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