Connie Shaw on Immigration Policy
yazan Pavellim: Home Office
Why is it that a woman traveling alone to Afghanistan or Pakistan gets told it is too dangerous, yet men from those exact places are permitted to enter without hesitation? Connie Shaw asks this question while pointing out the stark contradiction in how safety warnings work for locals versus how they don't apply to new arrivals. She notes that the Home Office is fully aware of what everyone knows about the situation and knows that we know they know. The evidence isn't hidden; the Home Office literally distributes leaflets to asylum seekers with the specific instruction: 'Please do not rape our women and children.' This practice became impossible to ignore over the last two years, effectively after the events in Southport occurred, when public perceptions of multiculturalism began to crumble and the state started actively suppressing dissent. The logic seems to be that authorities believe the more information the public receives, the harder it becomes to manage a nation that is already fragile and deeply divided. Consequently, the government has found itself in a position where it prefers withholding information from society rather than allowing people to learn what they have every right to know. This concealment primarily concerns the families of crime victims who deserve transparency. In her view, even without statistical data, common sense is sufficient to reach a conclusion on this matter. She would not like to see immigration from countries like Afghanistan or Pakistan continuing at its current scale, especially given that women are considered second-class citizens and minorities face horrific treatment in these nations. We do not need complex statistics to arrive at a reasonable conclusion: our borders should remain closed to individuals from such countries. This stance is particularly urgent since the arriving migrants are almost exclusively men of conscription age. It is a perfectly justified position to hold even without any numerical data backing it up. As a woman, she would be strongly advised against traveling alone to Afghanistan or Pakistan, so the permission granted to men from these regions makes no logical sense. The argument rests on the reality that if travel is unsafe for women there, it is unreasonable to allow large numbers of men from those same places to come here.
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As a woman, I would be advised against travelling to Afghanistan or Pakistan on my own. So why on earth would we let swathes of men from those countries come here? We all know the truth. The Home Office knows we know the truth and they know that we know that they know the truth. For example, the Home Office creating pamphlets to give to asylum seekers to ask them, please don't rape our women and children. It's very clear, especially over the last two years, pretty much ever since Southport, was the explosion of all of these examples of basically multiculturalism just crumbling and the state becoming more and more authoritarian to suppress dissent. They know the more that the public know, the more information that they are armed with, the much harder it is to govern a country that is so fragile and fractured. The government is once again in a very difficult position of having to admit that they would rather hide information from the public than allow them to know something that they are obviously within their own rights to know, not least the families of victims of these people. In my opinion, even if these statistics were not released, even if there was a complete impossibility that we could ever collate these statistics, just through common sense, I would not want any immigration from countries like Afghanistan or Pakistan at this rate, or countries where women are treated as second-class citizens, where we know horrific practices against minorities, against women, where atrocities do occur. I don't think we need strong statistics to come up with the reasoned choice to not allow our borders to be open to people from those countries, especially when the people who are coming here are nearly all exclusively men of fighting age. I think that's a perfectly reasonable position to take, even without any of this data. Because as a woman, I would be advised against travelling to Afghanistan or Pakistan on my own. So why on earth would we let swathes of men from those countries come here?
