They need migrants so that they can continue to have a platform on xenophobia. Their voters can’t connect the dots, they will just vote for whoever signals a “hard course against migrants”, regardless if their actual policies will result in more immigration.
Really consistent with her own election campaign against immigration, cheers! This will also have a terrible impact on the domestic work market, lowering working class conditions to the levels of last century, in a country where there were already fewer labor rights than in the rest of western Europe. Very interesting.
I really don't like how the article (like so many others) uses the term "illegal migrants" for "asylum seekers". Entering an EU country seeking asylum is a priori legal. That's the entire point of asylum law.
This is particularly bad when the descriptor "illegal" is applied to the person ("migrant") rather than the act of entering a country ("migration"). Humans can not be illegal.
"Undocumented" or "irregular" are the words to use in this case.
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birki@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
I am really suprised that this government does this after building success on xenophobia.
agarorn@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Opportunism and Hypocritism
HaiZhung@feddit.de · -1 pts · 3y
They need migrants so that they can continue to have a platform on xenophobia. Their voters can’t connect the dots, they will just vote for whoever signals a “hard course against migrants”, regardless if their actual policies will result in more immigration.
MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Really consistent with her own election campaign against immigration, cheers! This will also have a terrible impact on the domestic work market, lowering working class conditions to the levels of last century, in a country where there were already fewer labor rights than in the rest of western Europe. Very interesting.
bob_lemon@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
I really don't like how the article (like so many others) uses the term "illegal migrants" for "asylum seekers". Entering an EU country seeking asylum is a priori legal. That's the entire point of asylum law.
This is particularly bad when the descriptor "illegal" is applied to the person ("migrant") rather than the act of entering a country ("migration"). Humans can not be illegal.
"Undocumented" or "irregular" are the words to use in this case.