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File Name | S21-Policy-NCFCA-17-AFF-LibyaCamps.docx |
File Size | 445.80 KB |
Date added | November 23, 2020 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, NCFCA, Policy, Season 21 |
Author | Vance Trefethen & Emmanuel Huang |
Case Summary: The EU (and Italy’s national government individually) fund the Libyan coast guard to intercept boats of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe. They do this in order to avoid triggering EU laws and international treaties like the 1951 Refugee Convention that would require the EU to take in, feed, clothe, and shelter the migrants until an individual determination could be made about their claims for asylum status. If the migrants never touch European soil or a European boat, then the rules never apply and the EU’s hands are clean, so they believe. When the Libyans pick up the boats, they bring the migrants back to detainment camps, also funded by the EU, in which they are treated horribly. The EU pretends all of this is not their problem, but this case argues that it is the EU’s problem because they’re the ones paying for all this abuse. The Plan requires the EU (and has the EU order its member states) to stop funding Libyan migration coast guard and detainment policies until Libya starts respecting human rights. Key argument for the Affirmative: Even if not one person’s life improves in Libya from this plan, AFF still wins Advantages 1 and 3, because those pertain to making Europe better by not paying someone else to do bad things.