[ericmay]

Thanks for the link. A tragic situation, of course.

But I'm confused as to how this situation is remotely comparable to a concentration camp? Do the Chinese let Uighur Muslims apply for asylum in other countries? Are kids at these camps being forced into slave labor? Are they being murdered?

These are refugees who, frankly, are getting a shit deal in life. That has nothing to do with actual concentration camps. The Australians are not rounding up people and gassing them, harvesting their organs, or forcing them to be re-educated.

These aren't comparable situations!

[pinkfoot]

Indeed, the Australian experiment showed most of these folk weren’t even refugees fleeing for their lives.

They were normal folk from poor countries who wanted the Western lifestyle and knew their best chance was to fake it in Australia and exhaust the courts.

Proof: when the boat route to Australia closed, very, very few are asking for asylum in Indonesia.

It just hurts some snowflakes SRC sensibilities to admit this.

PS. I really think Western democracies should hold a binding referendum on whether billions of poor people have a right to migrate to their countries, or not. You are tearing yourselves apart over it.