Monday, 19 March 2012

Celia's story and border issues


This article is talking about several men who have been arrested for illegal immigration action. The arrests were made in the UK on Wednesday and were based on tip-offs from which the agency has received. This is related to Celia’s story because she was also travelling in a group when Farm Patrol arrested her. In Celia’s story, the reason why she wanted to escape so badly was because the way she was living and how she was treated. She had such a horrible life that she was willing to risk her life and trust a ‘coyote’ just so she could get a better life. From this article though, I could make a connection to this issue. In the article it explained that five of the men were from Afghanistan. From this fact, I could assume that these five men were having a very hard time in Afghanistan and tried to escape into the UK so that they could live better. These people probably shared something similar with Celia; they must have been treated quite poorly and was willing to do anything to get out of that kind of life, much like Celia. They traveled in big groups like Celia’s story however the article did not explain that they might have gotten help from anyone else. In Celia’s story, her group got help from a ‘coyote’ that said he would help but ended up abandoning them and leaving the to the farm patrol. The people in this article did not have a guide like this, it seemed as if they just traveled by themselves without help and simply got caught because people were telling the police of these people that probably looked a bit suspicious. Now of course, it ended differently for these guys in the article than Celia’s story. Her story had a lot more at stake because the people that got caught turned into eejits while the people in the article only got arrested. But it still goes to show you how far people are willing to get to live a better life and I don’t blame them. If I was living in such I bad living condition, I would probably risk a lot to find a better place as well.

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