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The Morality of Borders

Moral Maze

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The Government's Choice to Target Asylum Seekers

Timothy Stanley: I think this is a gross act of misdirection by the government. It needs to be seen to be getting some numbers down, so it's choosing to target refugees rather than economic migrants. He says he fears that social cohesion will be undermined in the sense of a rise of a racist far right because people feel they're not being represented in the political system. "This is not going to do the government any good"

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