The west’s dumping of migrants on poor countries is a grisly echo of penal transportation

The EU, the US and Australia are all exploiting nations that can’t afford to say no.

• Kenan Malik
• The Guardian

Imagine that Britain signs a treaty with France agreeing to take its unwanted migrants for cash payment; that France suggests sending lawyers to this country to ensure the British courts treat deportees properly; and that the French national assembly passes a law declaring Britain to be a safe country for its cast-off migrants.

• The west’s dumping of…