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Thread #165455   Message #3969201
Posted By: Iains
01-Jan-19 - 05:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Refugees and asylum seekers
Subject: RE: BS: Refugees and asylum seekers
Dave Hansen."asylum seekers/refugees should settle in the FIRST FRIENDLY COUNTRY they entered"

Not true on several grounds:
They are asylum seekers until registered as refugees. Intheory they should seek asylum in the country of first landfall. If they keep travelling after registration they would become economic migrants in my book.
The Dublin agreement slightly modified the UN agreement on refugees, as far as the EU is concerned.
Keeping track of asylum seekers/economic migrants/refugees is hampered if they make landfall within the Schengen area. Britain has never given u total control of her borders. The only un monitored border within the UK is between Northern Ireland and the republic. ID is required for air and ferry traffic between the two.
   The real solution is to stop the great game of rape and pillage of natural resources by western regimes and the bear baiting to the north.