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© Thomson Reuters 2023.Britain to announce plan to house migrants on military bases within weeks: report
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GBR48
The return of the hulks, as featured in 'Great Expectations'. Are they doing a tie-in with the BBC's new woke adaptation?
This will annoy Scottish islanders, who have been having a difficult and expensive time with their ferry services lately.
Rodney
British people can’t afford food or heating. Migrants can stay in hotels. ?
Frank Sterle
In Canada, also, there’s notable contempt for migrants, and even [“fake”] refugees, many of whom are rightfully despondent, perhaps enough so to work very hard in cashless exchange for basic food and shelter.
But then all that no longer matters when the migrants die in their attempt at arriving. ... Last winter a young family of four from India froze to death trying to access the U.S. via sub-zero southern Manitoba. And I wonder how many have died or will while trying to access Canada.
If they feel they must, critics of such refugees/migrants should get angry at the politicians who supposedly allow in ‘too many’ migrants; but please don't criticize the desperate people for doing what we'd likely all do if in their dreadful position.
Also, conveniently ignored is the fact many are fleeing global-warming-related extreme weather events and chronic crop failures in the southern hemisphere widely believed to be related to the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, beginning with the Industrial Revolution.
Migrant laborers should be treated humanely, including timely access to proper work-related bodily protections, but too often are not.
These human beings don't willfully/contently become permanent financial/resource burdens on their host nation. And they do want to pull their own weight through employment, even if only to prove their detractors wrong. ... And, by the way, what happened to our 'Christian charity and compassion'?