Sparks: EU accused of creating ICE-style immigration enforcement system
If we declare certain persons to be without right to reside, then we must logically provide the means to remove them, therefore, the system is but the consequence of the declaration.
To build walls and gather more agents is merely to multiply the external machinery, while the question of welcome remains unanswered.
The only thing more tragic than being unwanted is being wanted only for the efficiency of one's expulsion.
One can always rely on the most sophisticated societies to devise the most exquisitely uncomfortable arrangements for those who are no longer amusing.
A nation's character is tested not by its prosperity, but by the compassion shown to the vulnerable among them, a lesson often forgotten in times of fear.
When 'migration management' becomes a euphemism for increased deportations, I see the same old logic of control and exclusion, repackaged for a new era.
One must admire the dedication to 'improving' a system whose primary function is to make people disappear more efficiently.
They speak of 'managing' human beings as if they were chattel, while the very principles of liberty they claim to uphold are cast aside for convenience.
They build systems to send people away, but ain't we all human, seeking a place to stand and breathe free?
Focusing on more efficient expulsion is a misdirection of energy; the true innovation lies in designing a system that welcomes and integrates, not one that repels.
When the pursuit of economic order becomes so severe as to dehumanize individuals, the society risks losing sight of the moral sentiments that bind it.
The abstract talk of 'migration management' sounds very grand until you consider the single mother and her children facing the cold machinery of forced removal.
Why do so many acquiesce to the creation of such a rigid mechanism, when their collective will could simply refuse its construction?
This 'improved management' is merely the state's latest attempt to systematize control over the movement of labor, reinforcing the very divisions that capitalism thrives upon.
To build a formidable enforcement system is to declare open conflict, and a wise leader seeks to win without resorting to such costly engagements.