Then send them back to their home country and charge that country for the expenses incurred at every step by every party.
It’s past time for the IMO to adopt directives and coordinate with nations to deal with migrants rescued at sea in the same manner as with stowaways. Returning them to their port of embarkation will send a clear message to the smugglers and migrants setting off in unseaworthy boats with the expectation that they’ll be “rescued”, that their plans will not succeed.
P&I insurance can cover the cost of repatriation and file claims against the ports of embarkation or fools like Banksy until the practice stops.
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Many South Koreans are opposed to an immediate reunification with North Korea because they’re incredibly poorer, the movement of people from North to South would overwhelm public services and have other social problems.
That opposition to immigration is not racist, North and South Koreans are the exact same race. Opposition to immigration is not always racially motivated.
Korea and Japan are highly developed, have a low birth rate and aging population but seem to be doing fine without mass immigration. Scientific advances in AI and automation are projected to reduce the demand for human labor, having a shrinking population might not be that much of a problem.
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Refugees are not Migrants, or v.v.
Asylum seekers are maybe some of both. It is up to UNHCR, or the Courts in the country where they seek asylum to decide who is what.
That is in accordance with the Convention that most countries have signed up to.
So are the people who paid $1000 for a passage as in the case of the Tampa incident asylum seekers, refugees or migrants? Whatever they are, do they have the right to demand entry and rights in a country of their choice?
So some here would have us believe.
That is true, but it sure is in some cases.
A falling population is a problem in Japan and in most of the developed world. To keep the economy going requires more people of working age. This is especially noticeable in small rural communities that need people to work in jobs that doesn’t lend themselves easily to replacement by robots and AI.
Japan is accepting more foreign workers on so called “training visa” and S.Korea are “importing” foreign brides for the many access males. That is the result of falling birth rate, especially of female babies.
In the year 1700 Japan had a population of around 30 million and today has around 130 million, something tells me they will do just fine if their population shrinks back to 30 million again with AI and automation to assist them, without the need for mass immigration.
Natural human population reduction is among one of the best things for the environment in terms of pollution etc, yet so many environmentally minded people seem to be silent on it.
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Thank the bible thumpers for that.
you forget the part where they flew business class to Indonesia where under the law they should claim asylum then paid people traffickers to get to a country with free national health so they are all criminals not asylum seekers.
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agreed its only capitalism and bankrupt governments that think filling up your country with cheap labour will solve any problems
Yes they do according to international conventions that has been signed and ratified by most developed countries. It does not separate who is Asylum seekers by race, religion or whether they are rich or poor, socialists or capitalists.
The big difference is that rich people can buy the right to enter and reside in rich countries, incl. USA.
But none of that change the fact that seafarers are obliged to rescue people in peril at sea and coastal countries are obliged to accept the survivors for repatriation. That is mandated in other international conventions.
If some of the survivors may then apply for asylum is a different matter and do not involve the seafarers that rescued them.
That Europe and many other countries are in need of migrants is not exactly a new revelation, or something I have figured out by myself:
As to automation and AI being the answer, that is not right.
None of that helps looking after people with dementia, or carry out all the other services that people in rich countries expects and demands.
PS> The Economist had a Special Section about the subject of dementia and the rapid increase of cases in the world two weeks ago.
There may be a lot of highly educated young people out of work in Europe, by do you see any of them picking fruit, tending vegetable patches, or applying for work cleaning and looking after old people?
In the UK you often hear people say that immigration is fiscal benefit to the country, but that is only true for immigrants from the older 15 EU countries, non-European immigration has a net negative fiscal impact.
Don’t forget to preach to your fellow compatriots.
From Amnesty International:
Taibeh Abbasi, 19, lives in constant fear of being deported to Afghanistan, a country she has never lived in. Born in Iran after her family fled the war in Afghanistan, Taibeh faced discrimination and couldn’t go to school. In 2012, she and her family fled to Norway, where Taibeh was able to continue learning, make friends and settle down. Her dream is to become a doctor. But despite protests by her local community, supported by more than 275,000 Amnesty supporters worldwide, the Norwegian government remains determined to force the Abbasi family to go to Afghanistan – a country that Amnesty’s research shows is too dangerous to deport people to right now .
you missed the part that they are obligated to request asylum in the first safe country they can get to.
That doesnt mean fly across the world, then get a people trafficker to boat you to a nice place
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they will when the wages are designed for locals instead of imported slaves.
Needing immigration is a BS story from bankrupt countries that promised welfare and retirement money from current income and hence can no longer pay it as they never saved up or invested.
Trapped in the capitalistic model of constant growth by which they mean population growth not economic growth.
tough, Australia has deported lots of kiwi criminals that have never lived in kiwiland…choose your parents carefully…
More than 5000 people have crossed the English channel (from France to the UK) this year in small boats, people say they’re asylum seekers but many of them have passed through several safe countries to get to the UK, wouldn’t a true assylum seeker claim refuge in the first safe country they got to?
A few weeks ago one of them actually drowned which is linked below. BLM protesters claim that the UK is such a racist and oppressive place for black people, if that was the case why would so many black people be so desperate to live in the UK, they’re risking their lives to get to the UK. Why would they be so desperate to move somewhere allegedly so oppressive for them?
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And you are willing to pay the higher prices at the Supermarket?
Maybe somebody will invent a smart machine that can pick the ripe strawberries and leave the others to ripen?
Ah yes, AI will be able to solve that.
BTW; I’m the one that argue for automation in shipping and elsewhere, but I’m realistic enough to know the limitations, both of technology and people’s willingness to sacrifice some of their hard earned money so others can also live in safety and comfort.
Maybe you and your Buddies can go pick some durians in stead of sitting around the table in the Marine, complaining about the stupid locals that could not possibly manage anything without the smart Expats being there to guide them…