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Originally Posted by Osem
Given the huge numbers, the best thing we can do for genuine refugees is to provide safe haven as close to the home nations as reasonably possible. Secure camps well provided with food, water, services etc. When the fighting stops, we're then going to need to help these people move back to their homes and start to rebuild their lives. What we can't do sadly is allow everyone who's a refugee, desperate or vulnerable to start a new life in Europe. We're already seeing the inevitable consequences of that and it isn't pleasant.
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I am wondering how long before we confront the idea that we may need to go into Syria with a view that we'll be staying there a
long time. The numbers are so large at this point that the best place to accommodate them all is in their existing homes.
More immediately maybe it makes sense for an EU enforced border at it's edges. A cross-nation funded and manned border rather than expecting the fringe states to do it themselves. That might also mean troops on the ground at the common sailing points in Northern Africa too....