Oddbean new post about login | logout @d7f9851e "... the Illegal Migration Bill earlier this year catalysed a series of policies that have stripped down the support available for victims of modern slavery..." https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/01/quitting-the-echr-would-create-a-fertile-environment-for-modern-slavery/ Woah. This just me realise that anti-immigration is a prohibition. Like anti-drug laws, they shift power over how things happen, from communities to gangsters. Of course, this doesn't reduce the amount of drug-trading/ migration that happens, but it does increases the harm that comes with it.
"Should the UK now also leave the ECHR [European Court of Human Rights], as Braverman desires, it would ... be the latest in a series of measures which have, as Phillipa Roberts, Head of Policy and Research for Hope for Justice told Byline Times “taken ten years worth of steps backwards” for the rights of modern slavery victims." https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/01/quitting-the-echr-would-create-a-fertile-environment-for-modern-slavery/ @d7f9851e
@58db300d And bans on abortion haven't stopped abortions but made women at risk from dangerous back street abortions. Some things banning it just drives it underground and more dangerous but the Tories don't care.
@d7f9851e > Some things banning it just drives it underground and more dangerous but the Tories don't care It's not that they don't care. That implies they don't know what they're doing. They do. They very intentionally use prohibition laws to remove the protection of the Rule of Law from groups of people they want to control and exploit. Immigrants, drug users/ suppliers, abortion patients/ clinics, sex workers etc. (1/2)
@d7f9851e Eg US anti-immigrant laws aren't there to keep immigrants out. If they did that, the economies of the southern states would lose a steady supply of workers willing to do exploitative service jobs. The real purpose of anti-immigrant laws is to stop them becoming legal workers, protected by US law, and free to organise for better pay and conditions. (2/3)
@d7f9851e Putting aside basic compassion for fellow humans, this is why even the most conservative white, working-class people should oppose anti-immigrant laws. Such laws help bosses keep *their* pay and conditions down too. Because they can always threaten to give the job to an immigrant and pay them less than the legal minimum. (3/3)
@58db300d Don't care I thought meant they know what they do & its consequences they just don't care about those consequences. That's how I meant it.