Comments by "Brand131" (@Brand131) on "Switzerland 'seizes assets from migrants' to cover costs" video.

  1. I think this is pretty shameless. I remember my native country did something similar with a neighboring country during WW1 and in all honesty I am embarrassed that we stooped that low. Personally, I don't care if they come to Europe or that it costs money, as long they will go back once their home countries are save. My issue with both the left and the right is that there doesn't seem any intent in doing this. Basically the left wants all of them to become citizens and the right wants to integrate them into the workforce. For example here, this policy assumes they will be here for a decade. However, the war in Syria, for example, shouldn't take nearly that long. Give the adults some good, short-term, practical courses for mechanical and, electrical engineering, nursing/health care etc, all the stuff their home country will need after the war is over. Separate schools for their children where they learn Arabic, English and math. Then when things cool down, wish them luck, and put them on a train/bus/plane/ship and send them on the way back to their home country.
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  2. Alin Popescu  "the unemployment you mentioned is because everyone is leaving" <- This makes no sense. Anyway, Greece's unemployment rate is still over 20%, Portugal, Spain and Italy all have rates well above 10% and the EU as a whole is also at 10%. The idea of the common market is that the freedom of movement would even out labor surpluses and shortages. If you allow  for a massive influx of workers from outside the EU you essentially sabotaging this mechanism. And a temporary single percentage point of GDP growth (or whatever it may be) is not worth the long term problems and the damage to our national and European identities.
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  3. Alin Popescu Sending people to a worn-torn country, even if they're criminals, would be unethical. I'm all for sending people from safe areas back. If they commit crimes, they can stay for the duration, but in jail. Where I live we currently have more prison personnel than prisoners, so there is enough room for that. I don't buy the "we need cheap workers" argument that the right uses. There is a huge unemployment in Southern Europe. If companies need more employees, they can go work to attract those people. I have nothing against people from Southern or Eastern EU countries coming here to work, to allow that is the whole point of the principle of freedom of movement. As for the "good apples" among them, I don't care if some of them have a desire to work. They will raise kids here, get a house and other possessions, and it will end up creating an anchor. This is how Europe ended up with millions of people from Turkey and Northern Africa. Don't allow them to work. Integrate them as less as possible and prepare them for their return, which should be inevitable.
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  4. infinitecanadian Though I agree with you that they try to turn this into an opportunity, keeping them all out is simply not feasible, because of international law and because there is no broad public support for it.
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