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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023

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I'm pretty sure the European law states refugees have to stay in the country they are originally processed. The fact that they want to move to richer countries, doesn't turn into a non-issue.

Anyway, looks like you don't dispute they actually have a valid point, so carry on.

Yes, the Dublin Regulation:

On 3 December 2008, the European Commission proposed amendments to the Dublin Regulation, creating an opportunity for reform of the Dublin System.[9] The Dublin III Regulation (No. 604/2013) was approved in June 2013, replacing the Dublin II Regulation, and applies to all member states except Denmark.[10] It came into force on 19 July 2013. It is based on the same principle as the previous two, i. e., that the first Member State where finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged is responsible for a person's asylum claim.[11]

Generally that means that Southern/Eastern European countries just usher potential applicants onwards to the richer countries to lodge the asylum claims there.

You don't seem to be arguing that these countries would benefit from more immigration, or disputing their claim that immigration would cause issues, so you're not contradicting their main point.

Maybe it's not a problem now, but these countries hope to eventually be rich and stable like Western European countries, and if they are, they'll have to deal with third world immigration then. And E-Europeans heading west to make money don't want to have to compete with Africans.

Imagine having leaders capable of thinking more than a decade ahead!

Their main point isn't getting less immigrants it's farming domestic votes.

Huh? Yes, people voted for anti-immigration parties, because they didn't want increased immigration.

where apparently Ukraine is about to be some hotbed of MENA immigration because.. Um, NATO! EU!

That is silly, but it's because the core EU soured on the whole immigration idea itself, not because they are above putting pressure on other countries, which they were doing during the Syrian refugee crisis.

For your vote to be anti-immigration, you must first have a pro-immigration party. Lots of Eastern European nations have those! Those would be their efforts to drag the people who migrated decades ago back in.

While the mods frown upon it, I happened to enjoy a bit of snark. I would only ask the snark contains something you genuinely want me to comment on. Somehow I doubt "you claim to be anti-immigration, and yet you want your own citizens to come back, curious!", is something that you actually want addressed.

People voting for MENA immigration are a rounding error off in Eastern Europe

This was not the case during the Syrian refugee crisis, and even now the parties seem to be divided into those against it, and those totally-not-for-it but who will call you racist for being against it. Also, we were talking about the EU putting pressure on other countries, so western Europe should be taken into account as well.

it's tougher to make a caricature of the place you live in every day

Your portrayal of the anti-immigration side seems to contradict this.

And I wish someone would tell that to the people running the news media.

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