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To: Theresa May - Home Secretary
Keep Support for Search and Rescue
Please do not remove support for Search-and-Rescue for migrants at danger of drowning in the Mediterranean. Abandoning people to drown is abandoning our common humanity and not something that I want the British Government to do in my name.
Why is this important?
It is morally reprehensible to allow fellow humans to die when we are able to save them. Turning our backs on desperate people to let them die is not something that we would do as individuals and we shouldn't do this as a country. No research or evidence has been offered to back up the argument that current search and rescue causes a pull-factor. The issue needs to be addressed by resolving the issues at the root that put our fellow humans in the situation where they are willing to risk life and limb, simply letting them drown will do nothing other than killing people.
