• livus@kbin.social
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          1 年前

          @rivermonster yeah that’s getting really bad lately.

          I’m in New Zealand and I want more refugees from everywhere, including Palestine. It’s frustrating.
          Turns out Children of Men is the most prophetic sci fi.

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              @rivermonster to be fair to the US it didn’t actually sign the UN convention on refugees that the rest of the West signed. But I still share your frustration.

              I wish we could all work together on this stuff. Instead we have had some shining examples recently of how countries who do take people from warzones get left to take a huge hit, like poor Bangladesh struggling alone to administer Coxs Bazar (the biggest refugee camp in the world, now home to the Rohingya), or the Kurds who bizarrely were left trying to feed and shelter surrendered ISIS fighters from all over the world.

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          Realistically a governments first responsibility before anything else is the physical safety of it’s citizenship.

          If you know a percentage of a population are religious extremists which will never integrate into your society and will probably pose a risk, then how can you, as a government, take them in?

          It’s a hard sell any way you slice it.