Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hughdellar. I didn't ask how they *did* it. We all know how they do it . I asked how they could still be considered refugees, when they had already escaped from the thing they were fleeing from. As you know, they cannot be, because they have at that point become migrants. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @patanna Becuase they can. Neither the 1951 Refugee Convention, nor EU law requires a person to claim… https://t.co/R6Er5nORhC

Posted Dec. 6, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The Geneva Conventions deal with the laws of war, @jonnymain2011 . The issue is not international law, but timeless logic:how can you still be a refugee, once you have escaped whatever you were fleeing from and arrived in a safe country? If you then go further,you are a migrant. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @nickdixoncomic Where is the Geneva Convention does it say that refugees are bound to seek asylum in t… https://t.co/9XRxnpj7Wu

Posted Dec. 6, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@patanna. Ah, there you are. I was worried, as you did not respond to my request for evidence.I didn't choose to discuss migration yesterday(it's a subject I hate because people get over-wrought and irrational so quickly).The BBC did.But when it arises,I apply reason and facts. — PolitiTweet.org

@hughdellar @ClarkeMicah Of course he knows that, he just loves hateful controversy.

Posted Dec. 6, 2022