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by jmyeet
863 days ago
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I'm a little surprised to hear "Stop the Boats" come from Britain. As the BBC points out, this policy and messaging was previously created and honed by Australia [1]. What you realize when you look into any of this is that it's not about stopping migration. It's about stopping the wrong kind of migration, specifcally undesirable migrants. The US had their own version of this with then-president Trump referring to Africa and Haiti as "sh*thole countries" [2], both the Trump and Biden administrations hid behind health concerns to stop immigration (ie Title 42 [3]) and now we're being forcefed a manufactured narrative around a "border crisis", which simply isn't true. Fun fact: the majority of undocumented migrants in the US are visa overstayers not border crossers [4]. Many, many years ago I remember hearing a phrase that underpinned UK immigration policy, which is "Britain is for the Britons". It seemed like this has only gotten worse. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898507 [2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-... [3]: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-border-title-42... [4]: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecu... |
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