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At the end of the day, we'll vote where we think it's best to do so. Further discussion gets us nowhere.
A record-number of asylum-seekers have been making their way across the Mediterranean Sea--most taking the route from Libya to Italy in unseaworthy boats. Some of these "asylum-seekers", as reported by the Italian press, are actually Islamic extremists who seek to do wrong to our continent; many of them want the taste of easy welfare as offered by many northern European countries.
And the European Union now expects us to accommodate these migrants! And do you know what? As members of the EU and, therefore, bound by the 1951 Convention on Refugees, the ECHR and the Lisbon Treaty, with its Charter of Fundamental Rights, we are totally and utterly impotent to do anything about it.
We have voluntarily surrendered our ability to make our own decisions.
This is an issue of accepting illegal immigrants into the European Union which then have the right to come to the United Kingdom..
Shoe on the other foot: If you were running from a country filled with people who wanted to kill you, only to end up on the shores of another country and get turned around, how would you feel?
since they're not illegal immigrants, they're refugees..
Pretty awful.
How do you know this?
I believe that it's more of a case of putting a sticking plaster over a gaping wound: by pretty much welcoming these migrants into the EU, through operations like Mare Nostrum, we are further encouraging more migrants to come on over. And thanks to the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, there is nothing that we can do about it as a country. We have to stop offering cherry-on-top asylum promises to these people, lest we inundate the continent with the economic problem of mass immigration.
So why do you wish it on others?
but they're escaping poverty in the hopes of a new life Europe.
They're still human beings.
But these people have a more legitimate reason for coming here than simply wanting to conquer the place like our ancestors did.
The last time I checked, the planet was round and everyone on it was a human being.
Don't appeal to emotion--this is an economic issue.
And if we grant them this, it will encourage many thousands more to come--many thousands that we cannot afford to have.
An appeal to emotion, again.
No, it's a human issue.
Your problem is that you just don't like foreigners.
What's wrong, human decency too difficult for you?
You are missing the point: that as we hand out this message of "come on over", this will incentivise unprecedented economic immigration--which we are already seeing.
I have no problem with foreigners coming into this countries--just as long as they are skilled workers who are financially stable.
And you're willing to put the societies of the Union at risk when ISIL have claimed they want to flood Europe with thousands of extremists? Wake up!
You are also missing the point that the stark message of 'Don't bother coming here'
can easily mean that other countries may choose not to help us at a time when we may need it.
This isn't our country, nor is it our planet. We're simply here by kind permission of mother nature.
There are many britons who aren't financially stabled or skilled. So...must be that you don't like foreigners.