…. we have problems that we appear unable to solve. Once you hear someone make the statement: “to think he did that to his own, his kind”….
What? Humankind?
What other kind can there be?
If we can ever let go of divisions, we may be able to resolve some of the world’s greatest problems…
There is absolutely no question that the laws of a land should be followed by everyone. There are requirements for migration. People cannot all just get up (regardless of what they are fleeing or what’s causing they to flee) and get on boats and wade into a country. Where do you draw the line? At the first 10,000? 40,000? 100,000? Because it ain’t gonna stop. But because we are a civilised society, we try to address it in a humane manner. Unfortunately, that’s being exploited and those who profit from sowing division and hatred, are licking their fingers and fanning the flames.
Technology is the solution. The government recently wanted to end uncontrolled access to pornographic websites, they did it. If there government wants to address the misuse of social media, just make it mandatory for all users to register their details and must display their employment & employer’s details to be able to use the ‘comments or posting’ section of any social media that is seen by others.
Anyone coming into the UK via the English Channel or any other non-legal route should have to wear a discreet tag that monitor their movement and activities at all times until their application has been concluded. Everyone in the country is already tagged! (We have to carry a passport to travel abroad, we have to carry a drivers license to drive a car or we have to have a card to use our money (bank card), get the train etc.). So, it’s not too much of an imposition to ask anyone wishing to come to the UK via the Channel or other unofficial routes, to get tagged
Someone must surely be able to design a force-field or something of that type, to secure the English Channel and other borders? Technology must provide the answer. We cannot continue this physical rounding up of people on the streets to deport them. It puts a stain on our civilisation. We have to be civilised.
Integration is very possible. And it can work. It works. But not if the influx is uncontrollable and the numbers begin to overwhelm the ability to cater for the people coming in.
Every country should be able to decide who they want to take in. Until we get to a time where the whole world thinks alike and cultures are all the same and we all speak the same language and all abide by the same rules etc., until we get to such a time, borders will remain and the need to ask that people follow the rules of entry and accept that everyone can’t just up and head to another country and ask to be helped, will remain.