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Finland shuts more Russia border points, says asylum inflow must stop (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah the number if immigrants is very little even by our standards, but our right wing government is doing all it can to stoke fears of a Russian hybrid operation, just so that they get an excuse to shut down the border. Ironically, that's exactly what Russia wants them to do because such disregard for human rights naturally inflames internal political tensions here.

There would be significantly less drama if we just took them in with due processing, but now that the racist nationalists party is in government with a spineless sack of shit as the PM, they're not going to do that.