UK Offers Migrants 20-Year Wait for Rights, 20-Minute Flight for Bombs
CBS News dutifully relays that the UK intends to make asylum seekers wait 20 years for permanent residence. This 'drastic reduction' in protections comes as the UK actively participates in military exercises and sells billions in weaponry to regimes contributing to regional instability. (Perhaps a 20-year wait for refuge just balances the 20-minute flight time for a UK-supplied bomb to create new
refugees?) One might wonder if the 'overhaul' includes reviewing arms sales to countries whose conflicts necessitate asylum. Or are we to believe these humanitarian crises erupt spontaneously, unrelated to Western foreign policy? It appears some refugees are more 'managed' than others.