• LazyGit@feddit.org
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    Even if you would think that were a good thing - which I don’t - there is no business case justifying spending all this money on border controls, impacting travel, increasing congestion and pollution just to ’catch’ 19(!) “illegal” immigrants. Even the numbers don’t add up.

    Also: Nobody is illegal!

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      Nobody is illegal

      I hate this so much…

      The thing is: YOU might not be “illegal”, but entering your neighbors house without his consent indeed is illegal.

      What would you do if a random number of strangers would tomorrow at noon decide that it would be a great idea to just enter your house?

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          And also between the thing you are doing being illegal and you being illegal

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              Where is this immoral? Are the EU countries bordering Germany that bad of a place? I don’t think so…

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                  Well, the point is that due to the Dublin III regulation the state in which the refuge seeking person first enters the EU is primarily responsible for the asylum procedure. So, there IS a proper asylum procedure the refuge seeking persons can apply to.

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                How is it morally right to put the perceived (by people like you I assume) burden of immigration only on the countries with EU outer borders?

                It’s also immoral to perceive these people as a burden in the first place.

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                  How is it morally right to put the perceived (by people like you I assume) burden of immigration only on the countries with EU outer borders?

                  This has to be addressed, with funding, staffing and other forms of aid.

                  It’s also immoral to perceive these people as a burden in the first place.

                  No, its not.

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                Not sure if you’re serious… If you’re seeking refuge, many of the countries bordering Germany are terrible places, Poland and Czechia especially.

                Edit: Someone reported this comment for being “straight out of NS propaganda”…? Meanwhile Visegrad has long-standing efforts to end relocation and Poland blocks all asylum-seekers.

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                  Well yeah, those places may be not that nice, but they are a far cry from an actual ongoing conflict zone or something like that. At this place you can apply for asylum and if it is granted you can look for further options…

                  If someone wants to chose a nice place to live and work at… well, there is the normal immigration procedure for that.

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            Then at least they should start saying “people who illegally immigrate” or something like that, because “illegal immigrants” does make it sound like its the people themselves who are illegal and that rhetoric only serves the far right

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        The right to asylum was put into the constitution because many victims of the holocaust where denied entry to other counties before getting rounded up and killed.

        If a stranger is running down the street, chased by a guy with a blood soaked knife, would you let them in?

        Edit: spelling

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        It’s absolutely not illegal to look for a better life in another country. What IS illegal is crossing the border without using the proper immigration procedure.

        Seeking refuge is different from immigration… the right for asylum is there to give you the opportunity to escape a dangerous place and stay TEMPORARILY in another country

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    Hinweis: Uns fehlen noch immer 200.000-300.000 Migranten um unsere Pflege und Sozialsysteme weiter zu unterhalten. Wäre halt geil gewesen, die Menschen die hier ankommen, schnell in Arbeit zu bringen. Nichts integriert besser als den Menschen die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich etwas aufzubauen, damit sie etwas zum verlieren haben. Wer auch noch einem Jahr sich noch nichts aufbauen konnte, hat nichts zu verlieren und wird sich nicht integrieren.

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    a fricking tragedy, and sadly one we all already saw coming when Merz was buddy-buddy with AfD on this very topic.

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      The issue is that colonialism has depleted the resources of many countries and destabilized them, thus making them unsafe for many today Of course people will try to stay alive by fleeing those conditions. And it’s outrageous to turn them away. Us westerners have it good BECAUSE they have it bad. Doesn’t matter that nobody alive today is responsible for colonialism.

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      Immigration is an issue too.

      Immigration drives up rents in cities while at the same time giving the economy cheap labour and keeping wages down.

      As long as immigrants are not guaranteed the same wages as citizens and are not distributed across the country, including the country-side, immigration is a net negative. The only ones profiting are employers and retirees.

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    I will not accept this injustice as long as bavarians and swabians are still free to roam germany as they please.

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    This legitimizes the argument to those “promoting” and benefiting from making immigration a central political issue. Not smart.

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      I fear we already crossed that line some time ago when the established parties used immigration as the scapegoat for pretty much everything that supposedly goes wrong in the country. Now it’s really hard to go back.