I mentioned last week the three rocks that British schemes for immigration restriction invariably hit, causing the schemes to founder and sink. The three rocks are:
The first of those rocks is not just a problem for the Brits. Daily Mail Online reported November 21st that South Africa is planning to withdraw from the U.N. Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol on the Status of Refugees.
South Africa plans to withdraw from UN conventions so it can restrict economic immigration and send refugees back to countries not deemed dangerous.
— EmmaBorosKidd (@EmmaBorosKidd) November 21, 2023
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Why?
So the government can restrict immigration and send refugees back to countries that are not deemed dangerous.
You wouldn’t think South Africa would be much bothered by illegal aliens. The place is an economic basket case, electricity and other services breaking down, health care and education starved of funding, youth unemployment rate—that’s ages 15 to 24—of 61 percent. That’s just youth unemployment; the overall rate is somewhere in the range 33 to 42 percent.
Why would anyone want to immigrate, legally or otherwise, into that dump? Just as your Mom told you: There’s always someone worse off than yourself.
Dire as things are in South Africa, in neighboring countries they’re direr. There are high rates of illegal immigration from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Somalia, and elsewhere.
Some South Africans believe the government is whipping up anti-immigrant feeling to deflect attention from its own failings. See, it’s not because of our incompetence and corruption that you’re unemployed and hungry, it’s those foreigners taking your jobs.
Whether they can successfully sell that to the electorate, we’ll find out next year: South Africa is yet another country holding a national election in 2024. The exact date is not yet determined; it’ll be between May and August.
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