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There is an increasing lack of compassion in the world. People want to stop the alleged influx of unauthorized foreigners entering their countries but fail to offer any solutions for where these people should go instead.
The outright racism behind such a view is no longer even thinly veiled; politicians, media outlets, and extremist right-wing groups all openly state that these people are “not their problem” and “someone else should deal with them.”
But let us look at the actual numbers for a moment. According to the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, the number of unauthorized arrivals in the UK grew slightly from 16,281 to 17,100 in 2020, then began to spike in 2021, reaching 36,218.
But surely this was inevitable? The lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had started to be lifted, Afghanistan was handed back to the Taliban, and the war in Ethiopia was escalating, to name but three contributory factors.
