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Who's suggesting JUST refusing to take them? I'm suggesting we should take some refugees but focus our efforts far more on treating their problems in situ.

So far as economic migrants are concerned there's no way we can prevent people from all around the globe forming expectations, even wildly unrealistic ones, about what life will be like in the UK, the US or anywhere else for that matter and wanting to better themselves. That's why they do things like climb inside airliner undercarriage and take their chances on intercontinental flights. No we can't stop such people trying it on (and in so doing risking their lives, and those of others) so the only way to prevent them becoming a serious and ever increasing problem is to make detection, enforcement and removal far more robust. That's another subject however, right now we just need to stem the flow before things get seriously nasty.