{"id":6100,"date":"2021-11-28T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2021-11-28T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T10:43:32","slug":"refugees-arent-fucking-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Refugees Aren&#8217;t Fucking Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the middle of this week&#8217;s tragedy regarding refugees drowning in the channel, various really <em>nasty<\/em> specimens of humanity were all over the word &#8220;illegal&#8221;. Which really gets up my fucking nose, because it&#8217;s bollocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the terms of the 1951 Refugee Convention (to which the UK is a signatory) those seeking asylum have a right to enter <em>any<\/em> country (not the first safe country) and apply for refugee status. Of those asylum seekers who enter the UK nearly 70% are eventually granted refugee status and whilst they are waiting are held in appalling conditions which any decent country should feel ashamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Af34YNSnMe0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of this week&#8217;s tragedy regarding refugees drowning in the channel, various really nasty specimens of humanity were all over the word &#8220;illegal&#8221;. Which really gets up my fucking nose, because it&#8217;s bollocks. Under the terms of the 1951 Refugee Convention (to which the UK is a signatory) those seeking asylum have a <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6100' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2070,2069],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-refugees","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1Ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}