Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Is migration creating ‘fortress’ Europe?" video.

Define "illegal immigration". Under international law, refugees have the right to get enter any country to claim asylum. It doesn't have to be the first safe country they get to. That is the law. No one is illegal.
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@fbabarbe430 when you call helping desperate people in need "political correctness" you only demonstrate the vacuity of your moral system.
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Why are you so obsessed by 50k refugees fleeing persecution when the government actually granted 600k other foreigners the the right to live in the UK last year? The government doesn't care about immigration on principle. They care about it because they can use the plight of desperate miserable people to rile up xenophobes and racists who think that welcoming a group of people who represent about 0.07% of the UK population are going to "dilute our culture" or some bs. If the British culture is so threadbare and frail that adding 0.07% of foreign people will kill it then its not worth saving! Stop being played by the elites. They don't cate about you or "british culture". They care about getting you to vote for them so they can continue to rob you blind, wreck the country and hand their mates billions in tax breaks and profitable contracts.
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@Corey_Otis when countries are signed up to the refugee convention, that necessarily puts the obligation to abide by that convention into their own national laws. That is how international law works. In the case of the US, this principle is actually in the constitution. Note the reference to "all Treaties" as the supreme law of the land. "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." So I am correct. It's an interesting clause actually because it means that the UN charter (which is a treaty signed by the US) had the same force in US law as the contents of the constitution itself. No law passed in the US can have the effect of violating the terms of the UN Charter. Not that you would know of course, given how many US actions, and even laws, flagrantly violate the UN charter.
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You can see western governments gearing up to watch tens of millions starve and die on their borders as the people try to flee the consequences of the climate emergency that those same western governments have caused. If you thought the holocaust was as low as mankind could stoop, I fear that much worse is coming. The question is whether ordinary people will stand by and watch the greatest project of mass death in history or if they will stand up and fight for a stable climate and solidarity with the people whose lives we have ruined.
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