75% of asylum seekers are young men, so it's probably safe to say that in addition to fleeing danger, many want to set themselves up as best they can, before then sending for any dependents they have.
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Migrant Crisis
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75% of asylum seekers are young men, so it's probably safe to say that in addition to fleeing danger, many want to set themselves up as best they can, before then sending for any dependents they have.
longers
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lol, someone posted this same comment on the daily fail.
Do you spend a lot of time with Syrians to come to this conclusion ? Perhaps you've conducted a poll ? Or maybe you're just making outrageous assumptions based on nothing ?
bizzaro
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Some debate on the issues is always welcome.
It's not that hard
The Migration Observatory at Oxford do a pretty good jobhttp://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/migration-uk-asylum
dandydan
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Well, what are you doing about it?
neil999
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the migrants will probably try and chop the tree down
Fresh Prince of Belle Val
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They wouldn't be dying if they stayed in Turkey. They aren't coming to avoid warfare, they want to come to the UK, Germany and Sweden for the money. Should we just roll out the red carpet for them?
Our government can not be blamed for these deaths, blame the parents of these poor children who tried to smuggle them into Europe illegally.
Fresh Prince of Belle Val
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I know every single Syrian. And they can't stand us, especially you.
Also language is a big factor - English is very widespread and most people know it more than they know other foreign languages.
Also, side note: why are me and you agreeing that housing migrants is a good and acceptable thing, we're right wing, we're supposed to hate them right? lol
neil999
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oh fair enough, the miserable gits...im quite nice once you get to know me
I suppose you can look at this in two ways. Migrants could come to Britain because we have a strong economy, good education, the global language and various other things that help someone get on in life (ie it's a compliment that people wish to come here). Or, alternatively, migrants could come all this way because we're a soft touch and they can sit watching Sky tv smoking their welfare cheque.
I dare say you might get people that do both, but I would hazard a guess that the majority do so for the former reason than for the latter.
Exactly. I suspect many migrants come to Britain for the same reason that you yourself came here. Good education opportunities, decent economy, great football team and lots of loose women
some very humane comments at the start of this, then of course it gets swamped with people who are actually scared by this human response. I just wish some people would be more honest and say 'I just don't care'. All the stats you try don't add up, any organised society copes easily with an influx of people, always has. If you would seriously turn people away who are in desperate situations. Fine. Stand by that. But don't start moaning when someone snatches your i-phone and no-one cares.
peteblue
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I think this is part of the issue for the UK. We have always allowed refugees and indeed economic migrants to enter the country. Since the gates were opened in 1997 we have allowed millions to enter. As a country we have always allowed far more in than the likes of Germany who are now doing the shouting. The issue is that Germany and co did not feel the brunt of mass immigration until very recently and are now shouting that something must be done. Of course real refugees should be accommodated if they are facing persecution, but they are not facing persecution in Europe. Our population now has 8 million extra people who were not born here, the population of Scotland and Wales combined. This cannot continue as there just isn't the housing and infrastructure that can materialise out of thin air. Real refugees, measured in the hundreds or low thousands would be more than welcome, and should be top of the list, but not while we are also importing hundreds of thousands of economic migrants each year.....this will continue until Europe puts back her borders and then allows refugees priority......
Fresh Prince of Belle Val
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I tried to conduct a poll in Damascus but they kept pelting me with stones and hitting me with their sandles.
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