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In this gripping talk, litigator and TED Fellow Itamar Mann details the perilous boat migrations of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean Sea. With a surplus of evidence gathered by researchers and activists, he explains how lawyers are making progress in prosecuting human rights abuses happening on militarized coasts. On a basic human level, Mann speaks to the obligation we have to defend each other's right to a dignified life — because the future of how we inhabit the planet together depends on it.
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Here is an idea deportation
Migrants or imagrants?
I’d go with “work shy chancers “
migrants are workers, immigrants are people that come here legally, illegals or people that cross into our country criminally. Not sure what you’re asking so
@Betty R. Here’s the answer:
A migrant moves to another country temporarily. An immigrant moves to another country intending to settle there permanently. Migrants can be people simply moving from one region to another within their country or people crossing international borders.
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How about the rights of the citizens/states NOT to be invaded by those who flood their borders and demand their money and support? Where’s their right to say NO??? How many homeless people is this guy allowing to live with/off of him?
do you believe you have the right to condemn thousands to drown to death because you dont want to pay your literal millionths of cents that go to helping those people? are you fucking deranged?
@ozoto If the potential for death is an issue, immigrate legally and there would be no issue.
@Reality Check Maybe take a second to think about why someone would risk their life rather than do it the legal way, and see where that way can be improved. People who are fleeing violence need help NOW and can’t wait months or years.
@Lane Atkinson That’s why we have embassies. Give the story there so their claim can be vetted and if found to be credible, then they can be flown out from there. It’s either that or trek 2000 miles through hostile territory. Its not rocket science.
European welfare isn’t a human right. Let’s think of the climate and keep these poor people in their own beautiful North African cultures, were they won’t experience western discrimination and decadence.
that’s hilarious Western discrimination you know that black people have so much more rights in America than anywhere else in the world,and they have a lot more privilege too then most white people in America!!! oh wait I’m sorry, all white people in America. because they don’t have white colleges they don’t have just white anything they do have black colleges and they do have black scholarships for just black people and same thing for women same thing for women over here,the only people treated bad in America to be honest are the men men are treated so badly in America because they hate men and our vets because they hate them too and here unless you live here, stop and don’t try commenting on the stuff that you’re f****** saying because you’re not telling the truth, you’re just spreading propaganda lies falsehoods…
“Dignified life”, what does that exactly mean? Our world really needs to revise its premises. Why is it so messed up? Why are so many millions simply wishing to get out of their original places and move to places where they hope to find a better life.
Why have we not been able, as a species, to create a world without such hardship for so many millions of humans?
We invented money because we believed and continue to do so, that an individual does not have a right to eat or to own clothes or a place to live unless such individual has EARNED the right.
According to the human vision of things, when an individual is born needs to be supported by those who engendered the being. If the parents can not live up to their duties towards the child, the child is doomed. Then the State picks up the child and now it is under the responsibility of the State until the child is sufficiently old that she can support herself.
And then the child, as a grown up, requires to find a job. The individual needs to prove that she is useful. But her usefulness will not be determined by herself, but by the employer or the lack of it.
Then we invented money as the certificate of usefulness. If you do not have money, that means you have not been useful to society. If you do not have money, you do not have right to the goods and services you will need to survive, let alone to have a “dignified existence”.
A lot of personas posses lots of money but in reality some of them have never provided any benefit to society. On the contrary, some of them, with lots of money, have only provided goods or services that have harmed the consumer and the environment.
We need a paradigm shift. We need a new paradigm with a different narrative.
It is possible but we have not given the problem enough intelligence to solve it.
We didn’t do invent money No, the cabal did that. in order to do everything you just described. And our world will be free!! we well walk together as the family we are,and we will share, and love like god intended.
I disregarded everything you said because you used the “she” pronoun in order to appeal to” feminists”
Its easy to talk about saving the world when you live in a gated community
@Matthew Morton well at the very least it got you to engage with the video and if you really want to make the case that words have never accomplished anything all throughout history I would love for you to make it.
@Poo Poo I don’t want to make that case though……….
why do you think I would? Do you always jump to such extremes when talking to people you don’t know?
Or only on the internet? lol
@Matthew Morton just following your thinking to its logical conclusion. Again if you want to make the case that words don’t accomplish anything go on ahead.
You don’t have a right to invade other people’s countries.
Are the Americas exempt? Just curious
@Lane Atkinson what American migrants are invading what countries?
Good place to start in in said country said persons immigrated from. Who moves to a free nation looking for opportunities and demands change? Backwards thinking….
Every time he says “human rights” it’s just code for “white people are not allowed to have their own countries”.
Notice how there is not one single word mentioning the desires or concerns of the hundreds of millions of Europeans who don’t want their countries repopulated with unending streams of people from the third world. To people like this, we don’t exist, we are simply here to provide homes for unlimited numbers of migrants.
“When war is over, they must go home. Europe is for Europeans.”
– The Dalai Lama
The world belongs to all living habitants. A H
@Juan Pineda Ado Hit? Or what does A H stand for?
Reminder that you’re not racist for opposing mass immigration
what are you talking about? If you’re white you’re racist by default according to ‘totally not racist CRT’.
You are a hypocrite though if you inhabit a country that killed off all of its original residents and repopulated via mass immigration.
@Lane Atkinson at some point, practically everyone inhabits a plot of land whose original residents were killed off and was repopulated by another population … not that it makes anything more justifiable in life or anything … just the facts.
@Lane Atkinson no one was killed off, there was no nation, country, nor law before the Europeans settled America, you need to learn some basic history.
May be you should save theirs rights befor the migrate ?
The human rights of migrants should begin with their own governments in their own countries, and not forcing another country to care for them on taxpayer dime and solve all their problems.
More soft soap puke and blather by this itamar Mann masquerading as Deep Thoughts who wants you to think he’s found the answer to all.
Stop scrolling the comments. Immigration is a keyword that sends the video to the recommended tabs of people with strong opinions one way or the other and an addiction to internet conflict. The people in the comments aren’t even here to watch the video, they just want to post their barely related “imagine world without money” or “blacks and latinos ruin America” opinions or find members of the “opposing side” to call idiots.