Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "UK Rwanda deportation plan: ‘Not a refugee crisis, but a racism crisis’" video.

  1. I was going to fact check Akkad, but there got to be too many things he said that were incorrect. One of the first was that no other country sent illegal immigrants to another country. Wrong. Australia did, and it had the desired effect to stop people making the dangerous boat journey. As such, it saved lives.
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  2. "all illegality will be solved when the illegal will be accepted as legal." So I guess on that principle, we should legalise burglary, rape, murder, fraud, etc. also. That would reduce the number of criminals drastically!
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  3.  @lon3271  "are you by any chance implying that assylum seeking is the same all those crime you have listed?" I was replying to BrownLeaf's comment about "illegality". Neither of us mentioned asylum seekers. "So following your logic then it make sense to say britain is dumping criminals in Rwanda then?" You have that completely distorted. First, it is illegal to enter a country without permission, with about one exception. These people are entering the country illegally. So (ignoring that exception), yes, they are breaking the law, and are therefore criminals. However, that exception is when a person meets the requirements of being a genuine asylum seeker. So until that is determined, it would be unfair to call them criminals. As I understand it, they are being sent to Rwanda until their claim is assessed. But one of the requirements of being a genuine asylum seeker is that you seek asylum in the first safe country you can get to. So if you're coming from some war-torn place in Africa or the Middle East or wherever, and you get to, say, Italy, that is where you must seek asylum. If you then continue on through France to England, you do not meet the requirements. If you do that, you have entered England illegally, and therefore could accurately be called a criminal. "So why not just then arrest them?" I believe that's what they would be doing. Arresting them then taking them to Rwanda for processing.
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  4.  @MrBoazhorribilis  "I hope that you mean that sarcastically. Like I did." This appears to be a case of parody being indistinguishable from reality. I thought you were serious, so was making a serious response.
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