Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "a response to comments - especially about my call for a global approach to migration" video.

Start coming up with solutions for where we find farm workers, doctors and nurses and so many other critical roles If that's too much work, I guess you have to accept things as best you can. Balls in your court now
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Because a significant number of our international treaties explicitly reference international human rights law as a foundation If we break that, we void so many trade deals and other mutual support pacts
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@qetoun an example would be the Good Friday agreement, Human Rights section 2 It explicitly declares the ECHR as a foundation for the agreement. In turn, the ECHR asylum policy explicitly builds on the 1951 Geneva convention You can't undermine the foundation of an agreement without voiding that agreement
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@qetoun treaties are funny things, as there isn't a grand international court. Pragmatically, there's nothing stopping a country breaking a treaty, except that other countries are going to know what we did. Maybe there will be immediate consequences. More likely, other countries just won't believe any promise we make Can we afford to be seen as an unreliable partner?
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@qetoun could you go find your own country if you want to try a North Korea?
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@charlieoscar09 "I don't want to become the North Korea of Europe" is my answer
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@qetoun I covered what consequences come from treaty clauses that can't come from purely domestic acts I can't tell you if you consider that "superior" or not
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@qetoun now you are misquoting me New laws take precedence over old laws. Superceding a treaty dependency has consequences that a purely domestic law doesn't, which is why a higher standard of care and scrutiny is required
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@qetoun for the definition of 'good' that aligns with 'legally valid', but not necessarily the one that aligns with 'wise'
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