Those fleeing are first political refugees as the revolution in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, provide bitter testimony. War isn't just a kerfuffle it's based on deep differences among peoples where such is going on. Many seek refuge for social reasons such as rights for women and children and, yes, economic freedom and access to education.
I am not saying the West should not accept ANY migrants from those regions. I am saying that the West needs to be a LOT more selective.
In Europe right now, if you make it through the borders (including if you are adrift in a dinghy in the Mediterranean and a NGO boat picks you up) you are in and it is virtually impossible to deport you. That is a completely untenable situation. Needless to say, many Islamists came to Europe that way. Including imams that founded Islamist/Salafist mosques that are now a very big problem throughout the EU.
That Europe is in the position of having to augment it's work forces to sustain economic progress offers opportunity for those fleeing from a primarily drought based religious/racist contraction and out of control population explosion that has driven average age in those countries down into the mid-late twenties.
The population explosion is due to Islam. Due to mass migration and mass breeding, Muslims will become a majority in Europe - first in big cities, then overall. That is not fear-mongering. It is a common result of mass migrations. European culture is under threat from the Muslim invasion as much as the Brition culture was under threat by the Anglo-Saxon influx in the 5th through 7th centuries CE.
Your framing, Derec, is so racist as to be pamphlet like.
First of all, it is not about race but about culture. Second, I am not against all migration, but it needs to be
- limited in numbers
- migrants should be vetted for criminal history and extremist (e.g. Islamist) views.
There is no such thing as an Afghan mass migrant.
Of course there are. Many millions of Afghans have come to EU over the last 10 years. Mostly young men. A significant portion of
It is a lone migrant from Afghanistan that you've chosen tar an entire group.
He was an example for the lax attitude EU authorities have toward vetting so-called "asylum seekers". And he is hardly the only one who has engaged in rape and or murder once safely inside EU. There was also this case, as just another example.
Germany: Migrant jailed for murdering ex-girlfriend, 15
To take this fear and push it seems to be your ploy. Taking singular examples of egregious behavior to tar an entire group is a act suitable to a Nazi or Klansman. It s not anything like rational discourse.
Nonsense! I am not saying all Afghans are bad, but their culture is antithetical to European or US culture. 99% support Shariah. Many are also violent.
I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
And this author is pro-migration!
It will not do to accuse people of being like Nazis of Klansmen just because they raise politically incorrect issues.
I find it particularly odious that you take a natural grasping to traditional values when segregated in to more or less gulag conditions as reason to reject those coming to work and live better. Had your thinking prevailed during the eighteen hundreds and nineteen hundreds in the US we would now be in Catholic Protestant war in the States.
I find it particularly odious that you refuse to acknowledge differences between cultures. Traditional Afghan or Pakistani or Somali culture is incompatible with the West. If somebody wants to immigrate to EU or US they need to adapt to Western values, not the other way around. EU is far further gone that US but even in US mistakes were made with "refugee resettlement" of Islamists. People, like many in Clarkston, Georgia, who keep their womenfolk in burqas. Or have the tendency to join ISIS or Al Shabab.
Oh, and one more thing. Just because somebody may be fleeing their government does not mean they are freedom-loving folk. Many who seek asylum are Islamists from countries like Egyopt where the governments are against Islamism. Imagine being too Islamist for a Muslim country but being able to pursue such radicalism because of useful idiots in EU, US or Canada! That's basically how Ahmed Khadr, an Al Qaeda terrorist and father of Omar Khadr, was able to immigrate into Canada in the 80s and become citizen of convenience.
