Looking around, the sight one sees
Is ready resort to the word "refugees"
But perhaps the word requires "degrees" ---
From how many lands...and paying what "fees"? 😏

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Thanks all for reading & commenting on my poem. Sometimes you just feel you need to say things & the words lead you wherever you need to go.

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Well worded RA.

The UK needs safe and legal routes…who got rid of them…and why?

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/safe-and-legal-routes-briefing
From the above link:

Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights generally provides for the right to seek and receive asylum from persecution “in other countries [than the person’s own country]”;
and Article 31 of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees prohibits the imposition of any penalty upon a refugee merely by reason of her, his or their having entered or being present without permission.

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One might plausibly say that nothing worth having ever comes easy! I spent many months enduring spartan accommodation
with communal washroom/toilet facilities, hard beds and limited space provided in my apprentice years for a working life in
service of this country. What I knew seems no worse (or better!)
that what is supplied for the migrants arriving on our shores
from the safe havens of the next door EU.

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A splendid polemical poem, RA. If it's not a prison, it sure does a good impression of one! And it houses people AWAITING the result of their applications!

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