Sealing America’s borders isn’t enough for the Trump administration. They want to seal everyone’s borders - and destroy the post-WWII global consensus that at least gave lip service to people fleeing dictatorships and failed states and genocide - not to mention, more recently, climate change and natural disasters.
And do we take one more step to a world run on lifeboat ethics - where the developed West builds itself enclaves of “civilization” and leaves the rest of the world to fend for themselves in the climate collapse it caused.
can’t risk all of your new slaves fleeing to other countries once the military dictatorship goes into full force.
Literally true now for, eg, Eritrea and North Korea.
Which is one reason why I’m confident the 1951 Refugee Convention is going to be scrapped, probably with 60-80% of delegations to the UN voting in favor of scrapping it.
No country actually wants refugees crossing its borders. The 1951 Convention came from the world’s collective guilt and shame at the human cost of WWII; the wealthy and politically powerful, for once in human history, showing empathy for the victims of their geopolitical manipulations. But the last survivors of WWII are almost gone, and the lesson of that war is dying with them.
And the countries with the most refugees fleeing them are dictatorships that want their “human resources” back working for them - or their political enemies returned to face death or imprisonment.