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Originally Posted by Damien
I am not sure anyone, other than a few fringe activists, thinks Europe should take economic migrants at the moment. The problem is how do you separate those with genuine claims and the economic migrants and how do you stop people getting abroad ships to come across to Europe?
Maybe a military force securing the other side of the crossings or, possibility, active operations to take down the smugglers. It's not an easy question.
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Exactly. Which is what those who opened the floodgates ought to have thought through before they did so. Of course, way back then, anyone who dared to point this out was labelled a racist. Let's be honest, it was entirely predictable for quite understandable reasons.
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute
It shouldn't, the point is to offer sanctuary from war torn areas and provide safe haven until the situation has rectified, it's now in its 3rd year and still no solution has been found apart from abandoning search and rescue/shooting boats before they set sail which is really the last (if at all an) option and not a cure to the issue
Economic migrants should be judged separately each on its own merits, this may sound like I changed my tune on this but this is the current rules for non Eu migrants, I am still a supporter of freedom of movement inside EU
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There are millions who would quite like to come here from sub Saharan Africa alone and separating the genuine refugees from the economic migrants is difficult if not impossible. The longer even genuine refugees are given refuge the less likely it is that they ever go back. They build lives, have kids etc. and quite understandably don't really want to go back home to a pile of rubble and some tinpot government which might be overthrown next week. A good number of Kosovans did exactly that after we were told they'd all want to go back home and rebuild their country. We have Kosovan friends who confirmed this. They came here as kids, applied for asylum, brought the rest of their family, went back home regularly for holidays etc. but decided to stay here. Having lived here for a good few years, the father died in London and his body was sent back to be buried there but they never wanted to go back to what their country had become. Don't get me wrong, I fully understand why they made that choice (I'd do likewise) but in the real world we cannot give refuge to everyone who deserves it - the numbers are just too big and we're running a real risk of being swamped by desperate people who've had their hopes and expectations of a new life raised. Those who're eventually deemed illegal will fight in any way they can to resist being sent back to the poverty they thought they'd escaped from. This is quite obvious.