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Being close is no excuse in this globalized world. Also to take refugees there is no need to be a first world country. I should have included China in my previo

• em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
  There is also the economic realism that labor will naturally move to where it thinks it can be best off. China is relatively over-populated. Closeness is an important factor when you realize that there are lots of refugees and that their wealth has been wiped out by war. So while the refugees might have enough money to hike or get a boat or plane ticket, they surely can't afford to fly across the world. And no one should be forced to pay to fly them, either. All they want is the opportunity to build a better life for themselves.