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European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights, a UN expert on migrant rights has said.
Talking about "marauders" and "swarms" was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said Francois Crepeau.
European countries should open official channels and their labour markets to migrants because building fences would not stop them coming, he said.
On Monday, a record number of refugees crossed into Hungary from Serbia.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34049512
Let's see then, by making it easier for migrants to come to the EU from all aroun d the world, this wouldn't in any way encourage even more to come here?
I'm not sure these people understand that there are countless millions of people who'd love to come here for a better life and we can't let them all come just because they want to. So having let 1 million come, 2 million, 3 million, 4 million, 10 million... what do we say the remaining millions and how do we then stop them coming?
What's happening here is that migrants are increasingly resorting to and being allowed to effectively blackmail the EU into accepting them. Those in Calais are a classic example, they'd rather risk their lives and cause all sorts of problems trying to get into the UK when there is nothing preventing them claiming asylum in France if they feel they have a case for so doing.
Imagine the world cup final gates suddenly being made a free event and people encouraged to just turn up - the host city would be deluged wih fans. Imagine then the gates opened up to the countless thousands of desperately keen fans. Would they form an orderly queue and stop trying to enter when the stadium became full or would they just keep on flooding in regardless of the danger to themselves and everyone else?
Whatever anyone thinks about the need to help genuine refugees and how we deal economic migrants we cannot help them all and the more we dither and create the impression that we will, the more they will come and add to the problem. To imagine anything else is naïve and to imagine that host communities are going to happily accept the effects of millions of migrants adding to their woes is as ridiculous as it is dangerous.