migrant crackdown

they're at it again. another crackdown on migrants announced. soon, probably, all the detention centres will be chock a block full of living, sweating, hungry, stressed and even bloody and bruised bodies.

but that's not the end of it. a crackdown has other effects as well. the psychological effects of knowing that you are hunted, and that open season has just been announced on your species. the gnawing fear that you, or your children, or your loved ones will be snared and caught.

the effect of this fear is not only psychological. you are physically caged in your hideout. afraid to venture out. afraid to go out and work and earn a living. your employers, having been raided, will be afraid to employ you. they would be afraid of their own future and their own livelihood.

when money is tight, this is perhaps the most vulnerable period for migrants. this is when free healthcare would count most. when the children and the aged and the pregnant get sick but their families don't have money for food, let alone medicine.

the only thing is, even if the mobile clinics are free, life in a detention centre is not. and so, fear prevents them from getting even goods and services that are free of charge.

try and feel what it is like to be living in fear.

feel for the hunted...