• livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @rivermonster to be fair to the US it didn’t actually sign the UN convention on refugees that the rest of the West signed. But I still share your frustration.

    I wish we could all work together on this stuff. Instead we have had some shining examples recently of how countries who do take people from warzones get left to take a huge hit, like poor Bangladesh struggling alone to administer Coxs Bazar (the biggest refugee camp in the world, now home to the Rohingya), or the Kurds who bizarrely were left trying to feed and shelter surrendered ISIS fighters from all over the world.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, my friend, that is just another source of shame that we aren’t signatories. The same as with our failure to sign on to the ICC. Just know some of us in this craphole are fighting the fascists.