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Dan Sohege 🧡 Profile picture
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Dec 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Thread: As yes the "liberal" defence of illegal and inhumane actions against people seeking safety. First off those "inconstestable" facts are indeed contested, by, uhm, the Home Office. Awkward. 1/
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Rejecting human rights is unlikely to make a significant difference, unless that is you support removing people to countries where they face torture or inhumane treatment, in which case I would personally argue you cannot call yourself "liberal". 2/
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Ah yes, the "liberal" argument of detaining people indefinitely. Keeping in mind you still cannot send them off to countries which you don't have a returns agreement with, at a cost of about £100 per day, so yeah, that works to save money Matt. 3/
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Okay, so first off there are more reasons that people need to seek asylum from persecution other than fleeing conflicts. Secondly, resettlement routes only work when they operate, and as the Afghan scheme has taken no-one this year, they don't. 4/
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But I guess you can always fall back on shouting "RWANDA IS THE SOLUTION", despite Rwanda not having close to capacity for everyone anyway, or the government's own analysis showing it is unsafe for refugees. 5/
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That's not to mention how the report which Parris is so happily pushing from a "liberal" position is based in large part on a falsehood with the way it defines refugees, as explained by @StevePeers here. 6/
As well as on data which, as @jdportes explains here, should be used with caution, to put it mildly at best, considering the source. 7/
Oh yes, and the Home Affairs Committee report which found that the threat of removals to Rwanda is not a "deterrent". Other than that though Matthew, fine crack on with your "liberal" argument for denying safety to people seeking it. 8/
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On a separate, and more personal note, that Matthew Parris decided to publish a column ostensibly supporting a report which has been condemned by no less than UNHCR for pushing illegal policies on #HumanRightsDay2022 is just sickening. 9/
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Nov 2
I am actually begging @BBCNews to at least attempt a little thing called "journalism" when reporting on people seeking asylum, rather than just being a Home Office stenographer. At least try and include context, rather than just quoting stats. #r4today. 1/
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Here's the thing, small boat crossings tend to follow the same pattern, even if numbers change, due to something called "the weather", shocking I know. Numbers change for small boats though as other policies kick in preventing people using alternative, safer, routes. #r4today 2/
For example, restrictions on visas have forced more people into using irregular routes, and as there is no such thing as a visa to seek asylum they have absolutely no alternative but to use the irregular routes. #r4today 3/
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Oct 6
Yesterday four people, including a child, died crossing channel. On Monday at least 48 people died reaching Djiboutian. At least 68,123 people died trying to reach safety in the last decade. We need cooperation to make it safer to seek asylum, not harder.
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People know the risks they are taking by using irregular routes. Most aren't looking at social media thinking, "I was going to stay here and face almost certain death, persecution or abuse, but now I have seen this TikTok video I'll risk my life on dangerous routes."
We've seen similar policies play out before, e.g. when the previous government tried it with Albania. They just don't work. With asylum, people tend to choose the country they seek it in for highly personal reasons, primarily existing ties. They aren't risking their lives for fun
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Sep 7
Setting aside the illegality of the Rwanda Policy, which Germany can't get around by just passing a law to say that an active dictatorship is "safe", and the inhumanity of it, the plan is even more unworkable for the continent than the UK. 1/ #r4today
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Okay, first off, the numbers issue. Rwanda, a country of the size of Wales and the most densely populated country in continental Africa, has the capacity to take and process claims of about 200 people per year. Simple maths shows it is pointless. 2/
It has also been tried before. Israel attempted a similar scheme, which led to about 4,000 people being trafficked from Rwanda into Europe within a matter of weeks of them being dumped there, and that scheme was voluntary not forced. 3/
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Aug 10
THREAD: Much as I personally believe Nigel Farage is a racist and revels in spreading hate, I have some issues with the way people are saying the far-right riots we are seeing right now are the #FarageRiot. It's too simplistic and ignores decades of hostile rhetoric. 1/
Last time I brought this topic up I was accused of "both siding" things, so let's quickly clarify this. Both siding would be if I was trying to say there are "good people' on the far-right. I am not. Sorry, "legitimate concerns" went out the window when violent attacks started 2/
I am not defending, or deflecting, from what Farage has done, The point here is that when you make him the focus you risk ignoring the decades of hostile, and racist, anti-migrant, rhetoric which have embedded this scapegoating of migrants in public consciousness. 3/
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Aug 4
Long thread; A lot of the violence we have seen over the last few days has been stoked by years of misinformation about migration, often from many of the politicians condemning it now. So, let's address some of that misinformation. 1/
Crime: In Britain, there is no correlation between higher levels of immigration and increased violent crime. Migrants are statistically, and proportionally, less likely to report crime though, and more likely to face hate crimes. 2/

Now, I know that people have bought into the whole "grooming gangs" line, but, again, this is a myth. It's the "frequency illusion" in action. The reality is that grooming gangs are far more likely to be white, British, men. 3/
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Jul 21
Since I wrote this thread on @UKLabour's Asylum and Immigration policies several things have been depressingly clear. First off, things are going to get worse. Cooper's announcement of increased immigration raids, and the blinkered defence of them by some, shows this. 1/
The second is how much harder it is going to be for organisations and individuals fighting for migrants' rights. A lot of support over the last 14 years wasn't "pro-migrants rights". It was "anti-conservative". Obviously this isn't new though. 2/
We saw shades of it after the Brexit referendum. People who claimed to be progressive pushing a "good/bad migrants" narrative dividing EU and non-EU migrants. I saw first hand a lot of the hypocrisy of those individuals then, and see it repeating on an even larger scale now. 3/
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