This is literally just "we hate these damn refugees so much, let's point blank start robbing them because then they might think twice about the idea that we're a decent country! Yes, better to be reviled as a hellhole for refugees than any refugees actually coming here!!"
Do they not understand even with being robbed, that might still be the preferable option to someone in a life-or-death situation who doesn't have a lot of a choice about where to go? So all this does is legalize human rights abuses specifically on people who have already suffered ridiculous amounts of those to start with. The way all these "developed" countries, in 2015, respond to people in a desperate situation is just revolting. What in the hell are these priorities.
...also it's tied to that whole classist idea that poor people shouldn't be allowed to have any nice things.
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Do they not understand even with being robbed, that might still be the preferable option to someone in a life-or-death situation who doesn't have a lot of a choice about where to go? So all this does is legalize human rights abuses specifically on people who have already suffered ridiculous amounts of those to start with. The way all these "developed" countries, in 2015, respond to people in a desperate situation is just revolting. What in the hell are these priorities.
...also it's tied to that whole classist idea that poor people shouldn't be allowed to have any nice things.
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