Smugglers in Calais and Dunkirk told me the government’s hostile environment approach to asylum has helped their mafias to grow richer and more powerful - a slightly different narrative to the mainstream

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@iohn_smith @lucymarionbrown Genuinely fascinated whether your brain computes the world in these binaries - or are you just propagandising?

@mic0m99 @lucymarionbrown Many do go to Kenya and far more stay in Kenya than continue onwards. Kenya hosts a shit tonne more refugees than the UK with far less money. Refugees in Kenya do need visas to actually work or even leave camps. Camps are well over capacity. Just some actual facts for you.

@iohn_smith @lucymarionbrown If the person compares migrants to dogs owned by other humans, you should tell them to get fucked.

@itstoasted9 @lucymarionbrown If the ‘they’ in ‘if they didn’t rape so many kids’ refers to any shared characteristic other than actually raping kids - then it’s a problematic ‘they’ and you know it

@iohn_smith @lucymarionbrown Hard agree community sponsorship is one of best ways forwards. Atm it’s largely discouraged and blocked by gov because they blindly prioritise optics of net migration numbers. Legal responsibility for crimes tricky - but maybe there’s options with responsibility for enforcement

@lucymarionbrown @iohn_smith Thanks I respect that. I feel emotional too - for people in my life and too many others immigration is a life and death question. I don’t agree with your solution, but I don’t think that makes you my enemy. Most of us just want good things for as many people as poss, right?

@lucymarionbrown The warriors of free speech

@mic0m99 @lucymarionbrown Now ask chat gpt for the number of people displaced globally each year. You then tell me if that’s sustainable.

@lucymarionbrown @iohn_smith * I’m NOT your enemy!

@lucymarionbrown @iohn_smith If your fight is an against male violence against women, we should work together. If your fight is against brown male violence against women - why just that?

@lucymarionbrown There are problems, and there’s blanket hate. And the blanket hate makes it really hard to focus on and tackle the actual problems.

@itstoasted9 @lucymarionbrown ‘They’ being who..? The rapists you have in mind, or anyone with the same skin colour? Does that mean I can call you a rapist because of what white men have done to me? Stop parading as a protector of woman to justify your own hate.