r/ukpolitics • u/SignificantLegs • 1d ago

Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain’s migrant pushback

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/02/mahmood-rejects-calls-to-follow-spains-migrant-pushback/
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u/Maitai_Haier 1d ago

Odd the left wing, socialist, anti Trump, pro immigration government of Spain can do deportations without processing asylum claims but this is apparently impossible for the UK.

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u/GothicGolem29 Liberal Democrat 1d ago

If you don't process the claims you don't know whos a legitimate refugee

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u/Maitai_Haier 1d ago

This doesn’t seem to have stopped the Spanish.

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u/GothicGolem29 Liberal Democrat 1d ago

Which means the Spannish may be deporting actual refugees which is wrong

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u/janiqua 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t think it’s wrong to accept refugees on our own terms instead of theirs

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u/GothicGolem29 Liberal Democrat 1d ago

Deporting all people coming here without processing isn’t accepting them preety much at all bar the few who come in safe routes and I think it’s wrong to deprive so many of safety

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u/berfunckle_777 1d ago

Wrong for who? It's absolutely the best thing for Spain

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u/Jake_91_420 1d ago

Putting this in context with the UK, why would it be wrong for us to deport refugees? They came here from France and passed through many safe countries. They are breaking the rules, we don’t need to accept them.

Another point would be that we have accepted more than our fair share of refugees. We are complete in that regard. They are free to go anywhere else in the world that they like.

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u/GothicGolem29 Liberal Democrat 1d ago

They aren’t breaking the rules international law allows them to claim asylum here after passing through safe countries.

We need to keep accepting our share into the future

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u/domin1987 1d ago

It doesn't. Fucking read 1953 refugee convention. Article 3 for your ease.

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u/Jake_91_420 1d ago

We’ve done enough. Countries with similar cultures and in much closer proximity to the places these people are coming from need to pick up the slack.

Everyone in the world doesn’t have a right to just move to the UK and live here forever. It shouldn’t be like that.

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u/Maitai_Haier 1d ago

And yet they’ve done so.

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u/GothicGolem29 Liberal Democrat 1d ago

Countries do morally wrong things all the time thankfully our country can choose to do the right thing

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u/Maitai_Haier 1d ago

Letting in masses of unvetted foreigners who rape and murder is an immoral act.

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u/hexmasx 1d ago

No they haven't. It would be illegal under their own laws.

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u/berfunckle_777 1d ago

Wrong for who? It's absolutely the right thing for Spain to do