Just been listening to a Hungarian MEP interviewed on Radio 5 and quite predictably the authorities there are seeing a dramatic increase in fake Syrian ID papers, passports etc. Now why would that be I wonder? Possibly because the authorities have sent out a clear message that Syrians will be accepted as genuine refuges? Of course there'll be entirely genuine Syrians who can't prove that's what they are so how is anyone supposed to determine the truth? Apparently the authorities in Vienna have requested the Hungarians to stop allowing migrants through. Not much sign of 'sharing the problem' there then...
He also confirmed the presence of a great many people from places like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Serbia and Albania who are nothing more than economic migrants and rightly pointed out that there needs to be a programme for ensuring their return to their places of origin in order that the genuine refugees can be properly dealt with.
Yvette Cooper seems to believe that the UK could easily take and support a few thousand refugees and she could be right. However, if she feels so strongly about that what did she do about dealing with the UK's very own homeless and destitute when her party were in power? It's not as though Labour eradicated that sort of appalling deprivation in their own back yard is it...
Meantime:
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Hundreds of migrants have protested for a second day at Hungary's decision to prevent them from travelling on towards Germany and other EU countries.
They are among 2,000 people camped at Budapest's Keleti train station, having bought tickets for onward journeys.
Meanwhile, more than 4,000 migrants arrived in mainland Greece from the island of Lesbos overnight.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34128263
The thing is, once you've allowed a whole lot of desperate people so far they don't take kindly to being told they can go no further and I can understand that. They've already made their minds up about where they want to go and are unlikely to accept anything else. Therein lies another problem, we seem to be allowing the migrants to determine the action the EU takes rather than the other way around. Don't be too surprised therefore that many of them will choose to resume their journeys to Germany, Sweden, the UK or wherever in spite of where they may be offered 'sanctuary'. Short of putting them in secure compounds there's currently no way to stop these people going where they want and if that's Germany, no amount of words from Merkel about burden sharing, is going to stop them. That's what's been happening in Calais for years and maybe she needs to focus on that.