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Does anyone have a demographic breakdown of the migrants? I noticed in pictures that it seems to be primarily single 20-30 year old men, but of course thats a biased sample. Recently news coverage seems to be covering children, but how much of the refugee population is actually 3 year old kids?
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Showing that migrants who pay dangerous careless smugglers get a good first world life in Europe will cause a lot more people to attempt the journey, leading to more deaths.OwlFancier posted:It kind of is that simple, The UK alone had a net migration of about 330 thousand last year. People immigrate all the time, we could find space for a million people in Europe easily if we were so inclined. According to wikipedia you are high by a factor of two. And this is talking about an addition to that figure. An addition in mainly unskilled, war ravaged people with zero support structure and probably some deep traumatic issues. icantfindaname posted:The EU countries are wealthy and large enough that they could literally take in the entire populations of Iraq and Syria combined and feed them all relatively easily. Remember literally 25% of the people living in the borders of Lebanon as of 2015 are refugees. The EU, even excluding all former eastern bloc countries plus Greece and Portugal, still have 380 million people and could take all 50 million Iraqis and Syrians without reaching half that figure I would like to see some numbers to back this up. Europe already has a significant homeless population, why are these refugees so easy to house and integrate into society? Also turning Europe into Lebanon doesn't seem very realistic considering their government is extremely overtaxed and is in danger of collapsing itself.
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Sep 4, 2015 05:34
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PerpetualSelf posted:We need to bring some of these refugees to the United States. All the countries of the word have a part to play in this. Furthermore Refugees should not be seeking to go to specific countries. If they truly are refugees they need to be spread out evenly amongst all the countries of europe and the americas who are willing to help them. You should look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate The United States, despite what it seems like in the news, does not have a closed border, and lets in more than double the migrants per capita than Germany or France.
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Sep 4, 2015 05:38
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Syria has an ongoing civil war, so people fleeing that war are war refugees. If you're dying of starvation in your home country, and try to flee to europe, are you a migrant or a refugee? What if you are dying because you don't have proper medical care? What if you're living in poverty? This, I think, is where the distinction becomes less clear.
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Sep 4, 2015 08:21
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