Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Immigrants suffer degrading treatment in UK detention says inquiry" video.

  1. Yet again, another tone deaf activist report from CH4 that fails entirely to come to terms with reality. 8:48 "Is there any other country in Europe, or indeed in the US who does this kind of thing?" Completely and utterly avoids the question. Because the answer to the question is, yes, every single OECD country facing irregular border crossings at scale does this. Every single one In yankville they turn up the heat on hot days and make it colder on cold days. Migrants in the US can go days without food. They can be actually, genuinely tortured. They can be beaten, denied clothing, separated from everyone they know and broken physically and mentally. Cate knows that, she just doesn't want to say because it would invalidate all the things she's claiming. 5:45 "These are not prisoners, they haven't been charged with a crime". It is a crime to cross a border without permission, with the sole exception those whom meet the critera under the refugees convention. Crossing a border because you're poor and don't want to be anymore is a crime. Period. The reason this is called administrative detention, and they are not formally charged with a crime, is that in charging them with a crime they gain access to rights, trials, appeals and all manner of nonsense they otherwise would not have access to. By calling it administrative detention all of that is avoided. The goal is to deter further attempts through trauma and then deport. 6:28 "People's mental health deteriorates" I'm not sure cate understands that causing their mental health to deteriorate is entirely the point. It's the exact purpose of detention. To cause those suspected of being illegal economic immigrants trauma then send them back to wherever they started, and have them tell all their friends. The entire point is to stop illegal economic immigration. Being poor isn't a protected trait under the refugees convention.Period. 4:42 "They are second class citizens" Someone needs to explain to Viktor that they are not citizens at all. They don't even have leave to stay. They are immigrants who have crossed a border irregularly and are not expected to meet the asylums criteria. They have very few rights. Listen, I understand people like cate think they're doing a good, humane, moral thing. But in reality this is just an extension of colonalism. It isn't the weak that are crossing irregularly from undeveloped and developing countries. It isn't their dumbest. It isn't their worst off. It's the opposite, all of their best, strongest, smartest. The EXACT people those undeveloped and developing countries need in order ro develop their economies and life everyone out of poverty. Actually the humane thing to do is to keep illegal economic migrants out, so they're forced to develop their own countries and reach their full potential. Not become a slave to the colonial powers.
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