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Thread #164378   Message #3933177
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
25-Jun-18 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Refugee Clampdown
Subject: RE: BS: Refugee Clampdown
You raised an accusation (which incidentally originates from a report from a fundamentalist Iranian newspaper reporter). that 'refugees' were entering the country illegally by buying tickets for football matches'
If by 'the country' you mean UK, then no, as the next line you quote shows I said they were entering Finland.

The implication of the inverted commas around the word 'refugees' implies that they are fakes.
No, at this point no-one knows whether or not they are refugees. (except in the very broad sense of the term which only you use)

I say that there are refugees from wars we have helped to cause and there are refugees from poverty we have equally helped to cause
I fully accept that there are those trying to escape the results of our historic actions. But I do not accept (as you appear to) that everyone trying to emigrate from Africa to Europe comes under this description.
As Eliza says, there is no reason not to offer humanitarian aid, but that does not mean that all those arriving are refugees.

I have never mentioned either migrants nor immigrants
True, but that is probably only because you lump them all together under an inaccurate term of 'refugees'.