This is just some thoughts I have had, and I expect its shot through with flaws but I just wanted to get them down. I do not have a daily paper so the news I get from today Radio4 and news @7 on 4.
What I would do about the current situation at Calais, France.
!/ organize coaches to collect the refugees/migrants.
2/provide accommodation using old MOD properties.
3/Give each person the facilities to have a private bath and have clean clothes.
4/Provide hot meals and a clean bed to sleep in.
5/Provide full medical attention.
6/take full names and their previous address.
7/Details of families.
8/details of what they are running away from.
8/ Ask for criminal histories
9/ Teach them English.
10 Give each one a National Insurance Number with the Prefix RI for Refugee/Immigrant
10/Intergrate them with our own unemployed and teach them all a trade and or further education incl Universaty.
11/ Get all them to sign an individual agreement that they must get a Job and stay for 5 years before being allowed to leave for a holiday or emigration.
12/ After 6-8 years they will be entitled to having the RI letters removed from their NI No.
It would be wonderful if the other EU members sponsored similar programmes throughout their individual countries. This action of itself would nullify some of ISIS propaganda and the radicalisation
that takes place painting the west as the epitome of evil.
How desperate would you have to be to risk losing your life stowing away on a lorry? What would make you prepared to travel thousands of miles, risking drowning and sleeping rough in freezing weather. Do you think these stowaways have a lower value on their lives than you do? These people are not terrorists, or members of an army unit who are prepared to die for the unit or a cause. Would you risk all that for the benefits available here. I have no idea what they are in actual fact entitled to, and if they are that desperate then they need our help anyway.
The driving force must be similar to escaping pow’s in WW2. The desire to get to England to continue the war was their driving force. These lorry hoppers must believe that their future is here, so, why are they not entitled to get here for a better life. They are so young, but much older and they would not survive the rigours of the journey. What they are running from must be 100’s of times worse to make them chance the journey.
They are Human beings and because of that alone they deserve our help.
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July 30, 2015 at 8:05 pm