Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Really, French Government?

"France Bulldozes Migrant 'Jungle'"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/22/calais.france.illegal.migrants.removal/index.html

Really, French government? Really?

The French government claims to be hunting human trafficking. So, in order to do so, they tear down a refugee camp filled with illegal immigrants who are desperately hoping to make a better life for themselves in the wealth of western Europe. Personally, I don't see how bulldozing the entire place solves human trafficking. I also don't see how it solves the growing problem and number of refugees in the Western European area. I understand that each country can only hold and support so many citizens, and yes, France and Britain signed a pact pledging to aid in the fight against human trafficking and migration, but really, what a disrespect for human life. These poor people have trekked miles across many nations from places like Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq, where they experience troubles far darker and more desperate than any of us will experience in our lifetime, and here's just another government unsympathetic to their basic rights as human beings. They have no refuge in their own nation, and now they seem to have no refuge any place on this planet. At this rate, people are going to have to start migrating to the moon.

And you know what's really sad? Some unfeeling government will probably kick them out of there too.

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