• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve been saying it since 2016: the EU should start granting political asylum to people from the US.

    edit: I did say political

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      I think we don’t want open entrance policies in place that would make it easier for MAGAs to come over. Best to have some kind of requirement which filters out the MAGAs as much as possible, say minimum education level to get a work or digital nomad visa or only people from “at risk groups” such as Transexuals qualifying for asylum.

      Were I am now, Portugal, there’s pretty open immigration policy for Brazil with no actual minimum requirements and the result is that we imported a ton of far right muppets from there, to the point that in the last Brazilian Presidential election the proportion of voters for Bolsonaro in Portugal (as Brasilians can vote from abroad) was a lot larger than in Brasil - since Brasilians resident in Portugal can get Portuguese nationality after 5 years, this also help fuel the rise of the Far Right locally.

      Having some kind of reasonably easy and fair system to filter out the Fascist assholes would be much better.

    • AllPintsNorth@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      I moved from the U.S. to Germany in 2020.

      My running joke since was wondering whether I’d be eligible for citizenship or asylum first….

      Almost over the finish line for being eligible for citizenship, but I feel like asylum isn’t that far off.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        You don’t need asylum if you are a legal resident. Asylum is the most insecure form of permit, especially in Germany, where the society is currently getting more and more hostile to migration, including labeling countries like Afghanistan as “safe countries of origin” and organizing deportations with the Taliban.

    • LUC@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      omg then the EU as we know it wont exist for long if such policies were to be implemented.