yes there's of course no active opposition to US immigration policy lol. also it's 'international law', not 'norms'. also so what?
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Don’t you think your efforts should focus on US and China? And not on Poland where Russian forces instruct tourists brought to the border with Poland to commit violence against Polish border guards?
jul 13, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
my efforts are my business. I'm also quite happy for activism and advocacy to focus, as they do, on upholding international law and the right to asylum across the piece, regardless of location or state at fault.
jul 13, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
'brought to the border with Poland to commit violence against Polish border guards' Poland should militarise its border to deter trouble markers. Violence at borders and asylum are 2 different things.
jul 13, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
violence at borders and asylum are completely intertwined, and militarising borders a) has been shown to be ineffective in achieving any border-related policy objectives and b) is what got everybody into this mess in the first place.
jul 13, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 1 • view
if you set out to restrict asylum and entry at borders, and pay and give concessions to other countries to achieve those things, its really no wonder they'll have you over a fucking barrel when the fancy takes them.
jul 13, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re 100% wrong. You can’t allow people to attack your border guards.
jul 13, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
the border guards are being attacked at a militarised border. colour me shocked that a decision to militarise a specific situation engenders violence and conflict.
jul 13, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
It is a militarised border because Russia has declared war on Europe. If Putin makes his dream come true, we will all go to Siberia in his gulags and that’s if we’re lucky.
jul 13, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
The militarisation of EU borders has been ongoing for years - it's not specific to Russia, even if that's the current context for Poland, Finland et al. As before, the EU is very much in the find out phase of enabling neighbouring and/or hostile states to instrumentalise asylum-seeking in this way.
jul 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 1 • view
And as per usual, it's the people seeking and in need of protection who suffer.
jul 13, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The EU countries are the only ones who take these matters seriously. But hey.
jul 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
and how wildly successful their approach has been to date, really.
jul 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Good. That is that the EU is supposed to represent. Freedom, democracy and solidarity. The dictatorships will do things differently, we knew this already.
jul 13, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
the freedom to pay dictatorships a ton of cash and visa liberalisation measures to kill, torture and arbitrarily detain would be migrants, absent any democratic oversight, then cry about it when it all goes tits up. you're welcome for the correction.
jul 13, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
But this is what Poland has done. Apparently this is against this international law…
jul 13, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The original post was about Poland and Greece banning asylum. bsky.app/profile/soph...
jul 13, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Asylum and trouble makers at borders arent the same thing
jul 13, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s false. Poland has not banned asylum seekers. In fact, Poland is home to 3 million asylum seekers. But it has banned people to ask asylum at the border with Russia and Belarus because of this 👇 youtu.be/Ai20V_NVTG8?...
jul 13, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
because they want targets for water cannons?
jul 13, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Those terrorists are pushed by Russian forces to attack Polish border guards.
jul 13, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
'terrorists' now, is it? see previously posts for why exactly this jingoistic approach to policymaking re: borders by the EU and Member States has served that opportunity up to Russia on a platter.
jul 13, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
in any case, none of this was created by any of the people who froze to death in the forest on the border with Belarus. They're not pawns in your 6th form geopolitics.
jul 13, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
We cant control US and China, we can control what we do, and EU can control what it does.
jul 13, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
You can’t control the EU from Britain.
jul 13, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Not saying we can, but the EU can control the EU and hold countries to account who break laws around asylum.
jul 13, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
not on past evidence, it can't. or won't, more specifically - Member States also constitute part of 'the EU'.
jul 13, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view