What are the U.S.-Mexico border camps and why are children held there?
A judge ruled on Wednesday that children at the border should be ‘expeditiously’ provided safe housing – here’s what to know
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Totally unacceptable. Almost as bad as the treatment asylum seekers and refugees who make it to Australia receive where they are put into detention camps on off shore islands indefinitely. Apart from barely adequate food and shelter they have no other facilities to pass away the years. Imaging being a teenager being born there, growing up in a virtual prison without any schooling, toys etc. Their mental health became so bad that if they had to be sent to a health facility on the mainland, doctors would refuse to allow them back into the camps. Eventually laws were passed that took the decision out of the doctors’ hands. Successive Australian governments have stated that there is no way these people will be allowed into Australia. They have even refused repeated offers by New Zealand to take some of the refugees because “if they become NZ citizens they will be able to enter Australia”. I kid you not.
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Oh wow, Barry. I had no idea the bigotry was that bad in your country also. All over the world there seems to be this idea that our people are pure and anyone trying to come here are somehow diseased, wrong, disordered.
Do you think it is bigotry or self-interest by groups in the country that don’t want to share resources?
In the US it is driven by bigotry and hate. That explains it all, because every matrix shows we need the immigrants to do the work our people won’t do at a price our businesses are willing to pay. Simply put as horrible as it is, we need them to do the slave labor our own people feel they are above.
Yet like you say, our Republican Party are trying to dehumanize the very people coming here simply to work.
Barry do you have a solution or way that we can disrupt this hate and move to processing these immigrants? Every attempt Biden makes at increasing funding for more processing judges gets shot down by the republicans. They do not want a solution, they want the problem. Thanks, best wishes. Scottie
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Hi Scottie, I was referring to the Australian position, not New Zealand’s. Successive New Zealand governments have offered to take some of the detainees but Australia has always declined. Their argument goes something like this:
If New Zealand takes some of the detainees, eventually those detainees will become New Zealand citizens. An agreement between NZ and Australia allows citizens of either country the freedom to travel and work in either nation. Australia claims (without a shred of evidence) that those former detainees, once they gain NZ citizenship, will flock to Australia, thereby using NZ as a backdoor entry to Australia.
Australia conveniently ignores the fact they the refugees and asylum seekers are not targeting Australia specifically, they are simply trying to escape intolerable conditions in their place of origin.
As to your question about disrupting the hate so evident in the USA, I confess I haven’t a clue. It seems to me that America has developed a very unique idea about personal freedoms that ignore completely the importance of community, and that personal freedom trumps the rights of others (sorry for the pun, but I think the former president is simply and exaggerated metaphor for what is wrong with America).
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