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Avatar · 04-15-2004, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by StellaSlight:
<STRONG>I think illegal immigration is a problem for numerous reasons.</STRONG>

Illegal immigration is definately a problem, which is why more countries probably could practise externalised processing of asylum claims. This is when I might lose you, but I'll try to explain as well as I can - externalised processing of asylum claims basically gives the applicant the chance to seek asylum from his country of origin - eg. if I wanted to seek asylum in, say, France (since they're one of the countries that practise it), I would enter the French embassy and seek asylum from there. That way, I don't have to get to French soil to apply, which means that I don't have to a) pay smugglers a lot of money to get to France and b) don't have to stay in France indefinately while the application is being handled. The big drawback to this is of course that people who do have a well-founded fear would be put in jeopardy while waiting for an answer in their country of origin, so this have no easy solution.

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Originally posted by Fieryangel:
<STRONG>Stella I understand what you are saying. I just meant that it wasn't fair to the country-born citizens that they can't get help a lot of times when they need it but others can. Do you know what I mean?</STRONG>

I know you didn't direct this to me, but I think one shouldn't forget that immigrants haven't had the chance to build any sort of private health fund, and as long as health-care isn't free for all, which it should be, then I suppose that's the price you pay. It's probably not fair, but it's the fairest it can be under the circumstances.

[Edited because UBB-code doesn't like me [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]]

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