• Australian Government Video, “No Way”
  • Video was made by the Australian Government to endure transparency of translated anti-people smuggling communication material being delivered to audiences offshore
  • Policy of the Australian government to safely remove any foreign objects in the water
  • No exceptions of age, gender, or race of the people smugglers
  • If you come to Australia illegally by boat it will not be your home
• Stricter Asylum Regulations in Norway
  • Leaving your country whether for a better future, job, etc. is not accepted and must go back
  • Since 2014 almost 10,000 people almost died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea
  • ” Why risk your life and use your savings to pay smugglers when you will not get permission to stay “
• Gil Kerlikowski discussing the “Know the Facts” campaign
  • Interview near the border
    • U.S Customers and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske
  • Talking about bring clothes and health care services to the kids
  • Transportations and food was also given
  • Preparing for more people because of the laws in place

Sarah Bishop, “An International Analysis of Governmental Media Campaigns to Deter Asylum Seekers”

• Analyzes the way that government funded deterrence campaigns offer material directives that
  1. Discursively divide the nature of the threats posed when individuals seek asylum
  2. Omitting knowledge and information from migrants about asylum creating blindness in the audience
• Australia’s “Operation Sovereign Borders” campaign talks upon the struggles of controlling illegal migration and smuggling through the waters of Australia
  • ” However, the government has struggled to anticipate and control migrants arriving by boat. When asylum seekers reach Australia, they are placed in mandatory detention while their cases are processed.”
    • The country is having issues keeping control of people and not know where to put them. This makes officials put them in detention centers and cells making them seem as they committed a crime while they are just trying to escape danger and create a better life
    • This brings upon the issues of human rights vs law
      • Where is the line drawn between human rights and  law
      • Should law accommodate to human rights or what we have now is what we should keep.

The campaign material we see shows the separation between law and human rights. Talking about the history of other countries and how they faced off the issue of human right vs law and what is right and wrong can help us see what solutions can be made to the immigration and border problems we have to this date. With the numbers rising and laws getting more stricter and people still dying in centers while they wait for paperwork to be sent back or in jail time is not on our side. So with examples of past events it can show the solutions to the problems that these countries are trying to fix. Instead of using scare tactics and threats there has to be another way to fix this,

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