This is the post I really wanted to make about immigration

[nanila]

I'm a migrant. I came to the UK in search of new opportunities, a new job and a better life. I came on an aeroplane. I had a visa. And I was lucky enough to find all of those things.

A refugee is not a migrant. A refugee is someone who is so desperate they'll pay their life savings to put their toddler on a leaky boat in the sea on the slim chance they'll find safety somewhere else. Even the thought of having to do that to my children makes me physically ill. No one does that who is not at the absolute end of hope. No one.

It makes me ill that the British government's position is that it has been doing enough to help these people. Yes. By doing such helpful things as cancelling funding for the boat rescue service that could have prevented them from drowning. Very helpful. Because you don't have to offer asylum to corpses.

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[ayebydan]

I'm really proud of the SNP for snapping at Cameron to make a move and let people in, Scotland will take its share. Nicole is hosting a conference tomorrow with Scottish charities, council reps and so on to plan our strategy for when DCam says the word. Leader of the Tories in Scotland called him out on twitter and basically said 'if we don't help them wtf does that make us?' Now Ruth Davidson is DCam's lapdog. I hope seeing people like her call him out will help shift his mentality.

I really wish more people would talk about the millions being taken in by middle eastern nations. Iraq has taken millions, as has Egypt. When Iraq looks like an idea you know things are seriously messed up.

My facebook lit up with messages about how a migrant chooses to go somewhere for work ect and a refugee flees war and persecution.