Gericht blockiert Zürcher Plan zur Bereitstellung von Bargeld für illegale Migranten

I always wonder in what sort of parallel world these people live.

Who the fuck voted for this?

For the people who don’t understand why this is in place, it is to combat the drug dealing and petty theft which is rife with migrants.

Can’t get a job or money – what do you do? Yes they shouldn’t be here, but that doesn’t solve the immediate issue.

The main problem is how they get here in the first place, but nobody wants to work on this.

Good. No more undocumented freeloaders. 

So many questions. Was it a good or bad idea. Wouldn’t this help regularize some undocumented migrants? Was it unconditionnal or targeted at people in a regularization process? Was it a test pilot to assess if it gives positive outcome or not? Can it reduce human trafficking? Are there any sociology studies about it? Did other countries/cities already tried it? What were the arguments of the court?

Some jumps to the conclusion it was bad and provide „solutions“ that are probably more costly methods in terms of finance and human suffering like stuffing prisons or deportations. Maybe it was bad, but the article poorly describes the context.

It’s just depressing how people just dunk on this without doing a minimum of research or thinking. You might disagree with this but the framing here is kind of stupid.

Yes, undocumented can be deported (whether they should is a moral point which is not even that relevant here), however deporting someone take time and is outside of the city’s authority.

This is Zurich the city trying to address the pragmatic issue within their own scope (or at least what they thought/wanted it to be).

Even if the deportation process was easy and immediate, if your policy is to deport them on sight they will just avoid all authorities out of fear and keep being an issue for the criminality and health of the city.

You could draw a parallel here with other successful policies like giving clean siringes to drug addicts. The naive „just arrest them, doing drugs is illegal“ approach does nothing to reduce the spread of sicknesses.

We could have a more interesting discussion on whether this is a good solution but I guess just playing team sports and missing the nuance is what this website is about

Why does illegal immigration happen? Because it pays off. These are economic migrants. If you want to reduce illegal immigration, you have to reduce the attraction. Let it be known that illegally entering Switzerland (or Europe) is a bad idea.

If you could find them to give them money, then you can find them to deport them.

And this is why the left are their own worse enemies. I’m a leftist voter but this type of stupid policies instead of restricting immigration and quickly deporting the illegal migrants is what’s going to fuel the rise of the hard-core right 

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