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Thread #164378   Message #3932584
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
22-Jun-18 - 06:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Refugee Clampdown
Subject: RE: BS: Refugee Clampdown
Sorry, Jim.
If you want to get this discussion back on track your link totally fails.
It is a link about would-be 'economic migrants', and you started this thread about 'refugees'.

Once a refugee reaches a safe country they should apply for asylum. By failing to do so, and attempting to get to a country which they think will give them better prospects they cease to be refugees, and become, by their own choice, economic migrants.

Lumping all these persons in as 'refugees' seriously distorts any discussion. Even those reaching the shores of the EU for the first time could be either refugees, or economic migrants, but it is not such a clear cut case as for the Calais camps of those trying to reach the UK.