The main waves of refugees I recall are Syrians, with Russia involved, Ukraine obviously caused by Russia and apparently their Wagner type proxies are merrily overthrowing governments in Africa and contributing to the Africans crossing in dinghies. I don't recall many waves of people from Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan.
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Re: America's Regime Change Wars Created Europe's Refugee Crisis
#42This is myopic and a waste of analysis. You can also argue that Europe's colonialism and arbitrary political partitioning of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East created the corrupt regimes that the US has had to deal with since WW2. Greed is unfortunately not unique to any one group at any one point in time.
"Europe's Past colonialism and arbitrary political partitioning of Africa & America's Recent Regime Change Wars Created Europe's Refugee Crisis" Is it better ?
Re: America's Regime Change Wars Created Europe's Refugee Crisis
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> and refuse to disclose their home country, in which case imprisoning them until they agree to play ball doesn't seem unreasonable. How would this work in practice? Person comes from country A, claims he is from country B. You send him to country B, they can't find records of him and simply don't take him back. Now what?
This form of detention may seem costly, but the deterrent effect makes it less expensive overall when people realise the UK isn't a soft touch.
I think though that the debate isn't really about "does this work". It's more about the question of whether the UK (or any country) is responsible for looking after anyone that turns up on our shores.
I don't think we are, the default position should be the equivalent of an iptables deny rule.