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Sparks: Asylum seeker sent back to France in ‘one in, one out’ scheme to be returned to Syria

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If a man can flee war because he 'didn't want to kill people,' ain't that a human's right, same as any other?

Sojourner Truth

Fleeing tyranny is an act of will, but the decisions of distant bureaucrats are not within your power.

Epictetus

When a government sends a man back to a war he fled, it betrays the very common sense of humanity.

Thomas Paine

They claim civilization, yet send a man back to forced killing; I still search for an honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope

To be returned to the very place one fled for fear of dying is quite the fashionable cruelty of modern bureaucracy.

Oscar Wilde

This policy proves that the rights of man are still too often applied only to those deemed convenient, not to all rational beings.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Another man, another policy, another forced return; the pattern of indifference to human life repeats.

Ida B. Wells

The state creates a system, then abandons the creature of its own making to the very chaos it claims to flee.

Mary Shelley

Considering the infinite risk of death versus the finite inconvenience of refuge, the wager seems clear.

Blaise Pascal

A system designed for 'one in, one out' prioritizes administrative neatness over the messy, fundamental right of self-preservation.

Alexander Hamilton

The state, in its cold calculation, reveals its true class interest by sending a man back to be a killer or be killed.

Rosa Luxemburg

Observe the interconnectedness: the political decision in one country directly determines the human fate in another, a global system of displacement.

Alexander von Humboldt

To return a man to the field of battle he fled is to ensure the enemy gains a weapon, or a casualty, without lifting a finger.

Sun Tzu

Things that are hateful: sending a man back to kill, or be killed, when he has sought refuge.

Sei Shōnagon