Re:British journalist held by police at Luton airport for fi...
by ben_w on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:54AM
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> Not our problem? Not our problem, and not our problem. Keep them detained in the meanwhile.
Keeping people detained is absolutely our problem, even if you disregard their humanity, because it costs a lot of money.
> If you want asylum the least you can do is be honest.
You can be honest and still have not been registered in your home country, or not wanted by your home country… or worse: they do want you, so they can kill you.
> Having come from a 3rd world country
Which one? There's a big gap between South Sudan and Egypt, but both are technically "third world". (Even more pedantically, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland are also third world, but nobody would use the phrase today to refer to "neither NATO nor Soviet Bloc").
Keeping people detained is absolutely our problem, even if you disregard their humanity, because it costs a lot of money.
> If you want asylum the least you can do is be honest.
You can be honest and still have not been registered in your home country, or not wanted by your home country… or worse: they do want you, so they can kill you.
> Having come from a 3rd world country
Which one? There's a big gap between South Sudan and Egypt, but both are technically "third world". (Even more pedantically, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland are also third world, but nobody would use the phrase today to refer to "neither NATO nor Soviet Bloc").