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Hello and welcome back to the 
Tiny Pod. 

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This week is all about 
immigrant, illegal alien, and 

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inalienable rights. 
The word immigrant comes from 

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the Latin immigrare, meaning to 
move into from the verb migrare,

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to move to wonder. 
It is the natural, neutral, 

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fluid, cyclical movement of 
life. 

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Humans have been migrating since
the dawn of time, from field to 

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field, region to region. 
Agriculture depended on seasonal

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movement and ancient 
civilizations existed because 

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they moved. 
Humanity evolved as ideas, 

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culture, and genes spread. 
There was lots of immigration in

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the Bible. 
Abraham migrates, Moses 

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migrates. 
The entire Old Testament is 

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movement, exile, return, and 
wandering. 

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Jesus was a refugee as a child. 
So anyone using Christianity to 

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justify hostility to migrants 
hasn't read the Bible. 

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Immigrant is a new word for 
ancient, utterly normal human 

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behaviour. 
Just life doing what life does, 

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People. 
Were travellers, settlers, 

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pilgrims, traders, refugees, 
nomads or just people? 

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The neutrality of immigrant 
became lost in the 19th century 

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when anxiety over borders and 
ownership fuelled bureaucratic 

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categorising. 
When Europeans were moving 

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around the world, it was 
described as settlement, 

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civilization, exploration and 
empire. 

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When the poor started moving 
towards Europe and America, 

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migration became about poverty, 
race and labour. 

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It's linguistic gymnastics, like
when white wealthy Brits abroad 

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are expats and expat communities
are aspirational and chic and 

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everyone else is an immigrant or
illegal alien. 

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The word alien comes from the 
Latin alias meaning other, and 

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the verb alien RA meaning to 
transfer, to remove, to make 

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other. 
When something is moved, sold, 

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handed over, exiled, or 
separated, it becomes alien. 

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Not because it's strange or bad,
it is just no longer mine. 

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Alien became charged in the 
1920s when it started being 

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applied to human beings. 
Calling someone an illegal alien

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both criminalised their 
existence and stripped them of 

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their humanity. 
It is cold, administrative, 

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dehumanising political language 
designed to shut down empathy. 

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The person on the boat walking 
across a border or arriving in a

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new city is often acting from 
love, protection and survival, 

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all of which are pure sovereign 
human qualities, a universal 

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truth. 
Humans move becomes a crime, 

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weaponized by fragile power 
structures projecting their 

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internal chaos. 
Externally, systems dependent on

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fear need dehumanising words to 
function. 

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Regulated power doesn't Illegal 
alien creates fear and 

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separation, Mine versus not 
mine, inside versus outside, 

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safe versus dangerous. 
When leaders dehumanise with 

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language, it's not about policy.
It's about soothing their own 

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terror of losing control. 
It makes cruelty and violence 

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legal instead of violent. 
Law emerged as a collective 

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agreement to civilise society, 
to make society safe, to give it

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boundaries and to protect life. 
It was about containment of harm

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so people could live together 
without killing each other. 

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Labelling a human being illegal 
is using language to bypass 

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morality because once someone is
illegal, anything can be done to

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them. 
Detention, disappearance, family

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separation, violence. 
Language did the same thing in 

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the 17th century Caribbean and 
slave codes make people and 

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property mean the same thing. 
The law redefined reality and 

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legalised brutality by changing 
the category of the human being.

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Law without morality changes 
from a civilising force into a 

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weapon and breaks the moral 
laws. 

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It was created to serve leaders 
justifying violence and 

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exclusion as law while violating
international law. 

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Human rights law and 
constitutional laws are not 

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lawful. 
When politicians call human 

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beings illegal aliens, that is 
not constitutional language. 

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The American Constitution was 
founded by people who were 

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themselves aliens, declaring 
independence from a crown and 

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claiming inalienable rights, 
rights that cannot be made other

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they belong to you by virtue of 
being human. 

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The people most obsessed with 
calling others foreign, alien, 

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or illegal are surrounded by 
immigration, benefit from it, 

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marry it, exploit it, and 
weaponize it. 

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Trump, his wives, his kids, his 
ancestry are all layers of 

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immigration, and yet he 
weaponizes the word illegal 

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alien as if it has nothing to do
with him. 

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That is the absurdity, the 
ultimate hypocrisy. 

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The people holding the power to 
define illegal are themselves 

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breaking every principle of law,
fairness, and truth. 

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The term illegal alien is a 
smokescreen to make people feel 

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that the threat comes from 
outsiders, while the real 

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lawbreakers sit comfortably in 
power rewriting the rules for 

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themselves. 
The rules aren't about law, 

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fairness, or safety. 
They're about power, image, and 

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control. 
It's a system built on 

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hierarchy, not justice. 
Countries aren't suffering from 

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immigrants, they're suffering 
from men terrified of losing 

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dominance. 
Nothing is ever enough when 

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you're empty internally. 
Elon Musk, with over 700 billion

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able to cure world poverty 
twice, wants trillions more. 

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And to fly to another planet 
escaping Earth instead of 

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repairing it, where the nervous 
system never learns safety. 

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Nothing is ever enough. 
There's only more. 

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More control, more territory, 
more extraction, more noise to 

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drown out the emptiness of 
disconnection from humanity, 

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dignity, divinity, and God. 
It is relentless, senseless, 

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mindless, and endless. 
Stopping would require contact 

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with consequence, with grief, 
with responsibility, with 

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limits. 
So it keeps going. 

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Enforcement instead of 
reflection, Escalation instead 

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of repair. 
Empathy requires regulation and 

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feeling grief, shame, fear, 
guilt, all the things 

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disregulated people have spent a
lifetime trying to outrun. 

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It is a toddler's nervous system
with adult weapons. 

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Regulated people don't need to 
conquer or erase others. 

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Real strength is built 
internally, framing immigrants 

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as predators using media, 
political constructions like 

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Pakistani rape gangs, collapses,
migration, grooming, crime and 

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race. 
Grooming and sexual violence 

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exist across all ethnicities, 
classes and nationalities. 

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Politicians invent monsters 
elsewhere, but sexual abuse 

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statistics are consistent across
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Most abuse happens in private, 
by someone known within 

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families, institutions, 
churches, schools and 

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overwhelmingly by powerful men 
with social cover. 

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Documented associations, 
allegations, settlements, flight

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logs, sealed files and decades 
of testimony are far more 

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threatening than a man freezing 
in the channel. 

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Power plus impunity is where 
harm actually hides. 

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In homes, in elite circles, in 
positions of trust. 

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The immigrant criminal keeps the
spotlight off the familiar man 

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in the room. 
Donald Trump, Epstein, Nigel 

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Farage. 
Sexual offenders and paedophiles

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cannot tolerate shame, 
limitation or moral 

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contradiction, so they project 
their deceit, aggression and 

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cruelty onto immigrants. 
Aliens politicians position 

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themselves as protector, 
defender, and voice of the 

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people against a corrupt or 
dangerous other, when the real 

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danger is a world that mistakes 
domination for regulation, 

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projection for truth, and 
control for safety. 

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People who have built their 
entire identity on control, 

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dominance, productivity, 
conquest or being right cannot 

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retire because retirement would 
mean silence and silence wood 

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forest them to meet themselves. 
Stillness would allow grief, 

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regret, fear and the truth of 
impermanence to surface. 

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Old age is the evening of life, 
a season of reconciliation, 

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humility, handing things back. 
Men like Donald Trump, 

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Netanyahu, Nigel Farage are 
doing the opposite. 

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Instead of wisdom, there is 
escalation, Instead of legacy 

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there is hoarding. 
And instead of blessing the next

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generation, there is sabotage. 
They never became whole. 

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So ageing doesn't bring peace, 
it brings existential threat. 

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Every reminder of time, 
relevance, Mortality feels like 

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annihilation, the terror of 
death meeting an unexamined 

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life. 
It is running from death instead

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of preparing for it. 
Boys who never became men 

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trapped in ageing bodies with no
idea how to soften, terrified of

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rest because rest would mean 
feeling, trying to outpace 

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mortality with noise, avoiding 
humility, surrender and love. 

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The only things that being peace
at the end. 

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Fear of death isn't about death,
it's about an unlived life. 

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A regulated integrated elder 
doesn't need enemies or more. 

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They're present, generous and 
able to feel without becoming 

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cruel, see weakness without 
needing to dominate it, and 

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aligned in body, heart, mind and
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Separation. 
Cutting a human off from 

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belonging, from land, from 
community, from dignity and 

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telling them they belong 
elsewhere. 

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It is psychological before it's 
political. 

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White supremacy is people trying
to belong to a group that does 

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not exist. 
There is no original pure static

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white. 
It's a mix of migrations, 

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invasions, famines, plagues, 
border changes, stolen land, and

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rebranded ancestry. 
Immigration is biblical, 

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biological and ecological. 
Birds do it. 

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Seeds do it. 
Humans have always done it. 

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Movement is life. 
Alienation is the sickness, not 

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migration, people alienated from
their own humanity. 

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It is how power sits 
unchallenged by pitting 

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neighbours against neighbours, 
immigrants against immigrants. 

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Migration is courage, 
adaptability and survival. 

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It is not alien or other. 
We are all immigrants from town 

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to town, from emotional state to
emotional state, from life to 

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life. 
Immigration is ancient. 

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The planet has been moving 
forever. 

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To criminalise movement is to 
deny truth. 

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Humans belong to 1 human race, 
one humanity. 

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Everything else is theatre. 
I'll see you next week.