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The people coming in aren't playing fair: many are not refugees and are transiting safe countries (including EU countries) to apply for asylum in their favorite
by blub 6y ago
The people coming in aren't playing fair: many are not refugees and are transiting safe countries (including EU countries) to apply for asylum in their favorite country. It's understandable that they're desperate, but the EU doesn't have to accept that.
Of course there's a lot of people trying to stop them, because what those migrants are doing is not according to the spirit of the asylum laws and it's threatening to seriously harm the social harmony of the countries receiving them. A significant number of EU citizens do not want migration from outside of the EU, unless the EU benefits (highly-educated specialists, etc) and those people integrate into their host countries. This conflict has been smouldering within Western Europe in particular for many years and I have the feeling that tensions have been rising strongly in the past years.