Originally Posted by Osem

The trouble is migrants can claim to be from anywhere and concoct any story they like about their reasons for leaving. There are millions of displaced Syrians and others from around the globe who want to go elsewhere and wouldn't want to return home if they could find a better life in Europe. Given that being deemed an economic migrant will tend to preclude someone from being granted asylum who on Earth is going to travel all that way and admit that's what they are? Economic migrants aside, if the numbers of genuine refugees continues to increase then we're going to have a similar problem with them, albeit for different and understandable reasons.