• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I love how asylum seeker became an euphemism for illegal immigrant, and leftists act like its a good thing.

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          2 years ago

          That’s why there are two different words, which are neither synonyms nor euphemisms, this story is about asylum, features stories about individuals seeking asylum and your attempt to confound the two didn’t work.

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            2 years ago

            Except here, they explicitly closed the border and illegally immigrated anyway.

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              2 years ago

              Nope, that’s not it, they’ve explicitly changed their behaviour to stay inside the law. It’s what the article is about, how asylum seekers are adapting their behaviour to fit inside the new changes to the safe third country agreent.

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      2 years ago

      A) Asylum is legal. B) 39,000 people in a year represents a population gain of…0.001%. Horrifying.

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        Actually… It’s a gain of 0.1%. it’s also 9% of all new immigrants to Canada in a given year. It’s also 4x the limit of the recent H1B holders visa program for skilled immigrants who could not stay in the US.

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      2 years ago

      These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.