It’s sort of illegal to notice but in the story of “tens of thousands of British and American citizens trying to get out of Sudan!!!” you see how every story has an immigration angle in the 21st century Anglosphere.
Yes, there are some adventuresome gap year and TEFL types, but
Yes, there are some adventuresome gap year and TEFL types, but
they are not at all the majority of the 15-30,000 “Americans,” “Britons,” “Australians” etc etc. Majority are ‘paper citizens,’ whose British or American passport is mostly just a meal ticket and, on occasions like this, potentially a Get Out of Jail Free Card, and the news has
been filled with various representatives of this type moaning that the SAS or CAG haven’t yet fast-roped onto their balcony and spirited them away, and don’t you dare ask ‘Bro what the fuck were you doing living in Sudan anyway? Fuck off..’
So the pattern goes: Let in a
So the pattern goes: Let in a
bunch of people from X or Y shit hole. In our jet & SM age, many of them will sort of flit back and forth between London/Houston/Virginia etc and Khartoum/Kabul/Asmara etc, they could give two shits about being “British” or “American.” But when the donkey dung hits the fan in X
or Y shit hole, suddenly it’s ‘Civis Brittanicus Sum!’ and you have to send in the Paras to get these people “home” because, well, they’re Black/Brown *and* they’re immigrants or descended from immigrants (who integrated so well into Britain or America that they were living in
Sudan for years before April 2023, but anyway...) so they’re doubly-deserving of rescue.
Niche issue perhaps, but emblematic of the pyramid-scheme nature of the entire post-1965 US and post-1997 UK immigration systems. You wonder ‘What the fuck are *we* getting out of this?’
Niche issue perhaps, but emblematic of the pyramid-scheme nature of the entire post-1965 US and post-1997 UK immigration systems. You wonder ‘What the fuck are *we* getting out of this?’
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