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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by closeparen on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:52AM (#32066485)
Yes, the leverage employers can have over immigrants is a big problem. An illegal immigrant who goes to the authorities with a wage theft claim risks being arrested and deported herself. Even a highly educated tech worker at Facebook cannot switch to Google without jeopardizing his family's status in the United States.

The harsher the climate towards immigrants in laws and officialdom, the easier they are to exploit. The anti-immigration voters who demand this harshness are shooting themselves in the foot a bit, and should reconsider.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by brigandish on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:01AM (#32067297)
> The harsher the climate towards immigrants in laws and officialdom, the easier they are to exploit. The anti-immigration voters who demand this harshness are shooting themselves in the foot a bit, and should reconsider.

That ignores opportunity cost. There's a reason there are camps at Calais, and it's because those in the camps believe - rightly or wrongly - that they are better off applying for asylum in Britain than France.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by brigandish on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:50AM (#32210429)
It hasn't taken long for the policy to prove this true. From[1]:

> Numbers in this category have also grown significantly in recent months. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the increase is in response to a new UK policy being introduced which threatens to deport new arrivals into the UK to Rwanda in central Africa.

[1] https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/what-should-be-done-ire...

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