Talking about completely absurd humour:
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| It's a pretty cool song, actually |
And now, as for the post:
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| You said it, you get it |
The news in 50 words:
The writer tells us about her shocking experiences interviewing immigrant mothers, emphasising on the case of a Sri Lankan refugee whose children were brought to the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center once they were discovered in their tiny apartment in Thailand's capital city, remarking the bitter irony of today's Mother's Day.
In order to answer the other questions, I'd like to refer to another piece of news I've found (click here)
As Africans Surge to Europe’s Door, Spain Locks Down
MELILLA, Spain — It is easy to pick out the new arrivals at the shelter for immigrants here on this tiny patch of Spain in North Africa. One man limps by on crutches with a plaster cast on his ankle. Another has a bandaged arm in a sling. Abbdol Cisse, 19, had stitches on his face.“The police in Morocco were throwing stones at us, at our heads,” Mr. Cisse said recently, explaining his injuries. “They had metal bars, and they hit our legs while we were climbing.”Ten years ago Spain spent more than 30 million euros building up the barriers around Melilla and Ceuta, its two enclaves surrounded by Morocco on the northern coast of Africa, which offer the only land borders between the promise of Europe and the despair of Africa. And for a while the investment seemed to work.But in the past year, large groups of sub-Saharan immigrants have been charging the rows of seven-yard-high chain-link fences here with increasing frequency, or trying to swim around them, believing with good reason that if they can just get past they will ultimately end up in Europe. They often end up injured, not just from falls and the newly laid concertina wire, but at the hands of the Moroccan and Spanish authorities trying to stop them.
It's not specifically about immigrant children, but no one should be treated like this, neither children nor adults. As you can see, our own country's police does terrible things to immigrants on the very African continent. Especially in the United States, Latino immigrants that arrive on boats are dealt with quite strictly.
Since this a problem that "only" affects certain areas of a country (basically the borders) and it's about the actions of the police of our own country (who act by law, as it seems), the only possibility I see to provoke a change is through campaigning from the inside of our own country, from the very citizens that were born here. This way, the government should realise that it's actually an issue that concerns everyone, not only the ones who receive the violence.
Of course immigration has to be regulated in some way, but instead of preventing illegal movements using brute force, there should be institutions to negotiate (in a human way, not like the Bangkok Detention Center by separating children and mother) between the different countries who are stable enough to welcome immigrants and give them the a chance of a new life in better conditions than they had earlier. In my opinion, it's the responsibility of the richer countries to enable immigration, especially for refugees and alike, since it's a way to weaken the influence of the political forces that pressured them to escape. At least I think that's a better solution than sending the own military troops and blow up even more innocent civilists.
