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I support Doctors Without Borders choice and strongly disagree with how the EU is dealing the issue; and for that matter not dealing with the related issues. M

• k-mcgrady 10y ago
  >> "Most natural way of dealing with the issue is to allow those legally escaping a country to seek asylum wherever they're able to do so and/or to them feels like the best place to go." The problem with that is that the first countries they tend to arrive in are poorer European countries that don't have the necessary resources to process them. Allowing them to choose which country they want to go to will end up burdening the richer European countries as they will undoubtedly be the final destination for most migrants. I disagree with how it's being handled too but I don't think your solution would work. I think if we had some sort of EU organisation that works in border countries and deals with processing and then distributes migrants fairly throughout the continent it would be best. Processing takes so long though that it's still going to either burden border countries or refugees will be kept in detention centres throughout processing which is unethical in my view.
  • jacquesm 10y ago
    > Allowing them to choose which country they want to go to will end up burdening the richer European countries as they will undoubtedly be the final destination for most migrants. Fortunately those richer countries are better equipped to handle that burden (because they are rich). This is a complex problem and I really do not have any 5 minute solutions (I wish), but processing taking long seems to me a problem that is mostly caused by the receiving countries, not by the refugees.
    • k-mcgrady 10y ago
      >> "Fortunately those richer countries are better equipped to handle that burden (because they are rich)." I agree, but if you let people choose where they want to go and they mostly pick one of the rich countries it'll become unsustainable for them too which is why I think an even spread across the EU with countries taking in a share based on their wealth would work best. >> "processing taking long seems to me a problem that is mostly caused by the receiving countries, not by the refugees." True, I think the bureaucracy around it is a big issue. Refugees are probably lacking in a lot of documentation though (for obvious reasons) which can't help. That seems like something that should be common and obvious enough to authorities though that they can find other ways to verify identity etc.
      • nxzero 10y ago
        You're missing the point of how refugees naturally select the country that's best able to deal with the issue. Germany has an army, Greece does not. Turkey had an army, but the outcome of Turkey using it's army to end the war is not the one the refugees want. Point is to make refugees a natural point of pain as quickly as possible so that those impacted deal with the issue, not allow it to go on and on and on. Even worse, if allowing countries to send refugees for a fee to another country becomes a thing, it might quickly turn into sending any unwanted individuals to a secured location in another country; which clearly is a horrible solution.