Ake - the arduous & expensive part of the illegal immigration process is breaking the Schengen borders. You read but, seemingly, you don't read quite enough. Or you don't comprehend what you read.

"As Raedwulf has sais they seem to have enough money to travel, the real persecuted people are those still sitting in Syria and other countries that we have helped to de-stabilise." Not what I said at all. I said many of them are economic migrants. That doesn't mean they've got any money! It means they'll go to desperate lengths to come to Europe to do ANYTHING they can because they will (or, more to the point, the BELIEVE they will) be able to make a far better living than in their own countries. Including borrowing & mortgaging everything that their (extended) family has.

As far as I can tell, from strictly anecdotal evidence, they will (usually) work endless hours for little money & send home every penny they don't have to spend keeping together body & soul. Rather more laudable than all our alleged social security scroungers, no?

The key thing is to get inside the EU borders. After that, you can pick & choose, because there's barely a check on your documents. The target isn't "immigrate to Britain / Sweden / Wherever. It's "get inside Schengen; now I can travel more freely." In one sense, the traditional asylum law ("apply to the first safe country you come to") is being made a mockery. In another, it's simply a bad law in the modern world; one that badly needs updating...

And how do you tell an economic migrant from a genuine persecuted refugee? Fucked if I know...