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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: crostkev
I am not going to debate this, I am just going to explain how things are, and leave it at that. The points I am about to make are not supposition, they are not theory, they are facts, and if anyone desires to educate themselves on them, then there are resources upon them so plentiful that to include links would be superfluous.
The reason most migrants end up leaving their home nations in the first place, is that their nations are either bombed out ruins, because we left them that way, or bombed out ruins because the end result of our training thousands of Afghan rebels over the years, has been that those rebels passed on that training to psychopaths and started a whole series of big terror groups, which have mauled, and are continuing to savage their homelands.
Some migrate to escape war, and others to escape poverty, and many to escape both. Just as the only reason that some people here in Britain work hard and have nothing, is that some people want to call executive life hard work (even though it is not work at all, and is only considered work by the weak) and have everything, the reason many countries cannot afford to look after their own, is because western developed nations like to have all the money, all the power, and pay little for goods and services from outside themselves. Essentially, we in the west only have the lives we have, because some poor bastard the other side of the world works for less than a whole dollar a day, making our clothes, our gadgets, our food, and so on. If everyone on planet Earth got paid the same for the effort they put in, things would be differently balanced than they are now, that's for damned sure.
Now, because we in the west benefit from not having to walk miles to find clean water, because we in the west enjoy things like various freedoms, electrical grid access, healthcare, education, and other luxuries like that, we MUST be prepared to take in folk from other lands, because the odds are that the person coming here to live and find some kind of gainful employment, only had to leave his or her nation because one way or another, whether it was last week, or one hundred years ago, our nation screwed their nation some way, meaning that their nation is broken all to crap. When something of mine is broken all to crap, I go out and try to get a new something to replace it, and sometimes that is a matter of urgency.
To be frank, anyone who does not understand that living in a western nation places a person in a position of responsibility toward those from nations less well off than ours, has not read their history, has a massive compassion deficit, and either needs to go and get educated, or get the hell out of this country, and dare I say it, any nation rich enough to be considered developed, because they obviously do not appreciate the boon of their being born here, or any of the responsibility that comes with it.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: yuppa
Statistical source for that "majority"... Thanks.
f they want to come they should do it legally. By law they are to declare asylum in th efirst country they arrive at thats safe.
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
a reply to: yuppa
f they want to come they should do it legally. By law they are to declare asylum in th efirst country they arrive at thats safe.
They can't afford to do that. You think that if they could take a plane or a train or whatever, that they would not?
That they'd rather risk their lives on these boat crossings? Come on now.
I agree that the EU's immigration policies are terrible and need revision, but you actually see no reason why Western nations and European ones should feel even the slightest bit culpable in the situation here?
~Tenth