Comments by "Cyberfunk" (@cyberfunk3793) on "Finland to vote on returning back Russian asylum seekers | DW News" video.

The law is not according to international law and it's not going to be used now or in any remotely normal situation. It's going to be used only in extreme situations where breaking international law is the less bad option and obviously everybody hopes such a situation will never happen.
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It's not about Russians but who Russians might send. The law isn't going to be used in current situation, but in a hypothetical where Russia sends huge number (as in thousands per day) to the border to seek asylum.
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Well practically every country on the planet seems to disagree with you or otherwise they would not have signed the UN treaty on the matter.
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@2n01cal How are Russians flying to Italy or Spain without a tourist visa to EU?
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@MiSt3300 Default where? No country that follows international law can immediately deport those that seek asylum. And as I said, if you allow online applications, there would be so many millions more immediately that nobody would have any way of processing them and it would not reduce number appearing on the border at all. Also, you can't verify many things online but instead need to verify them at an actual interview with the person. You can't for example tell if they are faking certain nationality without hearing them speak etc.
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@meaningfuldebate I'm no expert but I would be very surprised if you could perfectly track people over long distances. Sure they can track your phone and perhaps in many countries might be able to track you in public places like train stations where there are cameras, but that stuff doesn't exist in places like Afghanistan, Syria etc. I suspect often they will need to rely on the interview to determine where a person is from if they don't have valid documents. See if they can speak the language with correct dialect and accent, know local things etc.
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It's not illegal to seek asylum, it's a fundamental right according to UN treaty. To prevent that is obvoiusly illegal as long as that treaty is as it is, but Finland isn't going to use this new, probably internationally illegal law except in extreme situations that have not happened yet.
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@MiSt3300 UN charter doesn't say anything about having to stay in the first country and having applications online would simply means millions of applications nobody can process and wouldn't change anything at the border itself. If you want to change something legally, try to get the right to seek asylum overturned as international law because at the moment it's binding and doesn't change even if everyone was seeking asylum online.
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@meaningfuldebate You think spy satellites track some individuals journey from some place like Syria to the border of Italy and can keep track well enough through the whole trip to identify the source country of the person? How are those satellites going to identify the source country of those people applying online if we would update the system as you suggested we should? How are you going to for example prevent the same person applying in multiple countries? If it's online why wouldn't everyone send 50 applications to different countries to see where they get lucky?
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@icu17siberia I don't think Russia is tracking where asylum seekers are coming from with satellites.
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