And the qualified term "bogus asylum seekers", very common during the Blair years, has pretty much vanished. Today the bogusness is taken as given - or the merits of an asylum claim are seen as irrelevant to the need to deport.
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Although notable that acceptance rates of claims are far higher now
aug 23, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
I suspect this may relate to the boats from France. A lot of people don't understand why the people on them didn't apply in France, so think they should be sent back to France regardless of merits. In that sense the merits are irrelevant.
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Because the term "illegal immigrants", focusing on the means of entry, has replaced it? Also, illegal sounds more serious. It's all the same, wanting to justify stripping folks of human rights because "they are bad people and deserve it" while true human rights apply even to the most evil person
aug 23, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I hear "illegal migrants" from supposedly respectable journalists a lot, when they seem to be referring to asylum seekers. I don't know what the criminalisation of small boats has done to the truthiness of that term, but it's counterproductive to having a useful debate about it
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