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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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