The UK has been learning bad lessons from across the pond, limiting voting by introducing requirements for photo ID, planning to ship immigrants out to other countries or housing them in giant barges offshore, and trying to pass laws that prevent refugees reaching the UK in small boats from even claiming asylum.
These media-generated wrongs don't stand up under examination.
The best way to manipulate someone is to appeal to their sense of self-righteousness.
[b
]limiting voting by introducing requirements for photo ID,[/b]
The media tells us that's a bad thing. Based on the assumption that nobody would ever want to win an election by cheating. Try, 'attempting to ensure voting is kept honest and sensibly regulated.' And how exactly does that limit honest voting? When every person and his dog has a smart-phone with two cameras?
And what gives you the idea that that is imported from the US? No Democratic state does this, in fact they give the vote to anybody who applies - without ID required.
'planning to ship immigrants out to other countries' Isn't that exactly what the countries that are sending the immigrants to the 'West' are doing?
housing them in giant barges offshore,
Maybe because someone [ultimately the tax-payer] has to build and pay for accommodation? Not a new idea tho. That's what the British public service did with their convicts when there was an excess of them before they sent them to Australia. Those were called, 'Hulks.'
Haven't heard that one before. I have heard tho, that they are housing them in Hotels in places like Edinburgh and New York, to name two.Or sending them out to small villages where their numbers overwhelm the locals.
Trying to pass laws that prevent refugees reaching the UK in small boats from even claiming asylum.The government's first duty is
to look after your interests, not the interests of non-citizens who aren't tax-payers or residents.
The 'small boats'? the 'Asylum seekers' come through Europe - funneled through France. The boats are supplied when they reach the channel. I've seen photographs of the boats.
The media and middle-class musicians and actors - who would never take a refugee into their house ever - spend money to propagandize that all migrants are sufferers who need help.
Those TV ads costs money, a lot of it. So who finances them, and what is their motivation? And why don't they spend all that money directly on 'the asylum-seekers'? Most asylum seekers do in fact, have money and have used it to leave their own country and arrive here. People-smuggling is a business.
"asylum seekers' include criminals and terrorists.
One of the regular jobs at the borders is identifying these and sending them back home. It's a big job.
Also, the bulk of them are not women and children, but men of working age. Although - they deliberately send children unaccompanied - some [more than you imagine] are trafficked, others are claimed later, to enable the adults to claim that they have a family resident in the country.
But most important, do you have any idea just what an economic and financial burden the large numbers - and they are large numbers - of unvetted and uninvited migrants are to the countries that are forced to accept them.
I believe that your
NHS is in dire financial trouble - as is our equivalent - how is the daily adding to the numbers entitled to
NHS services help the situation?
Do I think there should be no migration? No, that would make me a hypocrite, as everybody in Australia is descended from migrants [Including the Aboriginal people as DNA shows their ancestors came from Africa via South India]
I myself am related, by blood and by marriage am related to people from 4 continents. And I hate feeling the need to say that, I would rather shut up about it than blow my own trumpet.
Actually, we live in a time of many huge population movements.
It's understandable that there are currently large numbers of Ukrainians fleeing war and large numbers of Russians fleeing national service coming into and being accepted by the UK and Europe. In the US there are movements, not just of populations but of major businesses and corporations to Texas and California. You will have to look hard to find it, but there is a movement of 'People of Colour' out of the Northern States - to escape gun violence and lack of opportunity - back to the Southern States.
Also, I was forgetting that these avenues into Western Countries are being used to import drugs in massive quantities.
Curiously, I couldn’t access much current information on this.
Apparently the BBC hasn’t posted anything on Fentanyl since 2020
Curiouser and Curiouser.
Fentanyl deaths on rise in UK, drug report warns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50989633US fentanyl-related deaths more than tripled over five years
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fentanyl-related-deaths-more-than-tripled-over-5-years-2023-05-03/ I have read reliable reports that illegal immigration and the import of fentanyl are related in the US, It’s most likely that it is also the case in the UK and Australia.
Here is the official UK government policy.
Reasonable and neutral.
Risks of illegal migration to the UK https://www.gov.uk/guidance/risks-of-illegal-migration-to-the-ukShould have just posted the link below – makes the same points I make.
Tackling myths factsheet: Illegal Migration Bill https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illegal-migration-bill-factsheets/tackling-myths-factsheet-illegal-migration-bill 
