• kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “It is recognised in the 1951 Convention that people fleeing persecution may have to use irregular means in order to escape and claim asylum in another country – there is no legal way to travel to the UK for the specific purpose of seeking asylum.”

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      5 months ago

      Oh yeah, the UK is properly fucked up on that regard.

      Some of Continental Europe is better, but nowehere is the system properly designed for helping the ones who need it the most, much less to balance it with not negativelly impact those who make the system have the means to helps some of those who need help.