>By "nonexistent border protection" I meant something more like "once you step on EU land, you are free to go anywhere". The whole point of the EU and the Sche

>By "nonexistent border protection" I meant something more like "once you step on EU land, you are free to go anywhere". The whole point of the EU and the Schengen treaty was to have less border protection between member states. Is your opinion that the European Union is detrimental? >Maybe fish them out of the water and transport back as soon as possible? We can't deport the refugees back to war zones because of the european court of human rights (and possibly human decency) and we can't deport migrants until they have been identified because sending them to a random country would be human trafficking (and of course it is in migrants best interest to render themselves hard to identify).