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File Name | S21-Policy-NCFCA-18-NEG-LibyaCamps.docx |
File Size | 312.89 KB |
Date added | November 30, 2020 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, NCFCA, Policy, Season 21 |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
The AFF case stops the EU from funding Libya’s Coast Guard from arresting would-be migrants headed for the EU and dropping them in deplorable migrant internment camps in Libya. Actually very few migrants are even in those camps (less than 1% of all migrants in Libya are in the camps) and the EU and the UN are both already actively working programs to evacuate the camps and relocate the migrants to safer locations. Just telling Libya to release the detainees would be foolhardy: they would be no safer out on the streets than they are in the camps. And Libya is in the middle of a civil war anyway, so there’s no way of controlling what happens there, since we can’t tell from one day to the next who’s really running things. Most of the migrants are economic migrants – people looking for better jobs, not legitimate refugees or asylum seekers, so they do not have a valid claim under the international Refugee Convention. The EU has no moral duty to make the world a safe place for people to pass through other countries, illegally enter Libya and then illegally immigrate into Europe to find better jobs. If they wanted better jobs in Europe, they should have gone to the nearest European nation’s embassy or consulate in their home country and applied for a work visa.