@CharSkel wrote:
Some refugees are fleeing from natural disasters such as prolonged droughts, the result - probably - of global warming. In sub-Sahel countries these conditions have led to political instability and even civil wars. The resulting violence, inter-ethnic tensions and massacres, then lead to millions of people fleeing, in search of safety.
The selfishness and sheer prejudice shown here in Britain today contrasts with the attitudes common after 1945. Then the DPs - displaced persons - from various European states were supported by public opinion.
And governments and political parties in the 1940s and 1950s supported UNESCO's campaigning pamphlets, opposing the rhetoric of racism.
Today, by contrast, many refugee families with their children, are abandoned, with a modicum of UNHCR support, but not enough support for the children to get educated, for the sick to get medication, or for anyone in this situation to feel settled and confident about their future.
Stuck in a no-man's land of misery, adults and children alike are treated by the world as just so much human rubbish!
Shame on our world!