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Originally Posted by ianch99
<in a Yoda voice>Denial is strong in this one</in a Yoda voice>
Pearl clutching does not become you. The Brexit was all about "controlling our borders" and actively encouraged xenophobia. Andrew's article is right on point and the irony is off the scale.
There is no agenda here, only reality.
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The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.
Fretting over the mechanisms we use (or can no longer use) to deport illegal migrants back to other European countries is the very essence of xenophobia. The questions we ought to be asking are what factors drive them out of their home countries in the first place and how can we safely, with international cooperation, resettle them in the most appropriate places. Not how we’re going to get access to fingerprint records so that we can wash our hands of them and leave southern and Eastern European countries to deal with the problem.
Attempting to hitch that to an old debate about strains on UK public services caused by uncontrollable, legal movement of EU citizens is contemptible.