Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Inside the Bibby Stockholm - the UK government’s ‘asylum seeker barge’" video.

  1. It’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. The vast majority of people in my orbit have no issue with controlled legal immigration. Where the issue arises is the suspicion many (the majority?) of these individuals are simply economic migrants. If these people are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem accepting them as refugees into Europe, and I personally would have no problem with a barge full of genuine refugees in my backyard. However, more widely, Europe in toto needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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