obviously everything happening in the us is horrific but (like everything in trump's traveling carnival of government) it's mostly exceptional in now slapdash and clownish the cruelty is. let us please not forget that the EU has been paying foreign governments to torture and murder asylum seekers for years -- and australia's been doing the 'sending refugees to unaccountable offshore camps' thing for more than two decades. & like i say this not to detract from the justified fury and outrage for the situation in the usa but to urge everyone to analyse it not as some bizarre abberation but as something that fits alongside a long list of policies long pursued by the usa and other imperial core nations
On Australia, more refugees in these torture camps have set themselves on fire than been granted asylum in Australia. The government has, in the past, accused refugee advocates of coaching detainees into suicide.
This is just a part ofwhat people in the US and Europe mean by “Australian-style” immigration and refugee policy by the way.
