• Kobek@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How can you check someone’s criminal background if the country they are leaving doesn’t have reliable criminal records? Anyone can say anything at a border crossing.

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      Why do we assume that all people immigrating are criminals?

      Also it’s asylum seekers, which are people that are being prosecuted or even escaping their home country for fear of death. These are people that more then likely left their country with only the clothes on their back in a time of hardship or even war.

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        It’s not about assuming. It’s about verifying. How do you know they are asylum seekers and not just saying they are?

        If the average white Canadian from Ontario went to any other country in the world and said they were American no one would question it. Would that make it true?

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          It is about you assuming that everyone lies first. Do you lie all the time? Because that’s what you’re intimating is factual … and it’s not.

          • Kobek@sh.itjust.works
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            Yes many people lie and have bad intentions. It’s why the entire security industry exists and has existed for thousands of years. From parking lot attendants to top secret special agents. They exist because people lie.

            Let’s not pretend we live in a world where people don’t because that’s a fantasy and a waste of time when it comes to national policy.