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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
If I were living in a place where there is "widespread occurrences of disappearances, mass murders and extortion", then I would be willing to sacrifice every last bit of my personal savings to get my family the hell out of there, even if it was paying the devil to do it. I don't think that makes me a horrible human being. And I don't see how it means I wouldn't be a law abiding citizen once I got to a peaceful nation.
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If they are LTTE members they are bad people if they are not LTTE members I dont think anyone said they were bad people.
Canada has laws and they need to be followed otherwise what is the point? If I tell you it is against the law to speed but once I catch you there are no consequences, everyone would speed. That is exactly what is happening now.
If they were true refugees why didnt they make an application to the UN in Thailand and wait to be accepted by a country somewhere in the world? Canada has international commitments to bring in recognized refugees from around the world. Why didn't they stand in line with the rest of them? Instead they jumped the line and have now made the legitimate refugees that have been waiting to be accepted now wait even longer.
How do you thing those refugees feel? The ones that can't afford $20000+ dollars to come to Canada? There are only so many people in this world that we can help. Yes, we are lucky to have everything in Canada that we have and a lot of Canadians do not have a clue how lucky we are. Compared to others in this world it may seem like extreme excess, but that is just how the world is. And the world runs on rules and laws and they need to be followed.
If we just put these people on a plane and sent them back to where they came from they wouldn't even bother coming illegally in boat loads. They would know that once they got here they would be making a quick trip back and there would be no profit for these human traffickers.
As it stands now, Canada is just sending a message to the world that if you make it here you will be allowed to stay.
What is worse is if there are LTTE members on that boat, they will most likely be in Canada for ever. Why? Because Canada does not return people to another country if they are at risk for death and torture even if they are a terrorist. If we sent a LTTE member back to Sri Lanka they would likely suffer death or torture. So the best place for a terrorist to go if they face such risk is to Canada. Canadians are a bunch of suckers and it needs to be changed.