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Old 05-16-2015, 04:57 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Now we have Thailand saying any who make it onshore (not quite sure how this works? Maybe brought there by other vessels than the ones they set out in? Rescue ships? Coastguard?) can stay, but any who drift in will be turned around and sent back out to sea. How can they do this, knowing they're condemning their fellow human beings to a slow and agonising death from starvation and thirst and exposure? Is there no humanity in these people? If Thailand has say an earthquake like Nepal (god forbid) they'd be whining for aid but they won't offer it to those in desperate need?
We have the same policy going for Cuban refugees. We can't just let them in all willy nilly, but we feel too bad to send them back when we actually have to do all the paperwork and put them on our own boats with our own immigration/Coast Guard personnel.
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