Trump says he'll build a wall on the Syrian border and the refugees are gonna pay for it.

I'll say what I posted in the general venting thread again:

For stuff like this if you feel like it's too much to take in, then the best thing you can do is find something else to occupy your mind and try not to dwell on it too long. There is far too much shit in the world for any one person to be able to deal with, especially any of us who don't have billions of dollars worth of resources at their disposal.

You gotta choose your battles based on what is important to you as well as what you can actually make a difference with.

Solution is mass expulsions, sinking of smuggler ships(after detaining and prepping it's passengers for deportation) and erection of security fences like Israel has on it's Egyptian border(Hungary and Bulgaria have made inquiries into this).

And FYI, not all of these "refugees" are from war torn countries, these smugglers aren't getting money out of thin air and that most of these "refugees" are men is pretty telling too...

A big beautiful door.

Okay. So Europe is clearly off the table in this thread.

Where do the immigrants go?

I cared more about Cecil the Lion....

Can't speak for my pal Puddi or my even bigger pal Donald Trump.

But I am actually for the most part fine with them coming into Europe.

That said Europe has to handle it well and spread the flow of them equally.

Easier said than done obviously.

For example Germany

The issue for Germany is that they are a major power in Europe, so they all flock to places like that.

Austria can't get anyone to stay in their country, the refugees just keep going to Germany, because it has money.

But with this huge inflation of population, their economy won't be able to handle it. Because they aren't coming to make homes and work, they are mostly coming to be refugees.

And they are destroying farmland in the process. As they walk by fields, they just pull up the crop, as they walk by orchards, they take the fruit off the tree.

The behavior I'm seeing isn't refugees, it's, disgustingly, more like locusts.

You make a fair point.
It is not easy taking in immigrants.

I guess I've always been pro immigration since Britain doesn't really have a native population.
Back in the day, half of Europe invaded Britain bringing in lots of immigrants with them.

Since 1066 (the last time we were invaded) we continued to take in immigrants.
Heck my parents were both immigrants.

Immigrants have saved our NHS by doing a lot of jobs that most people in the UK are unqualified to do.
Many jobs that locals aren't interested in are taken up by people abroad including jobs on farmland.

There was a program about the immigration issue and they covered a strawberry farm where the workers were entirely Eastern European.


I am worried about how many people we can take. Our country is becoming overpopulated.
We are going to be destroying our precious countryside to accommodate more people.
Every time someone talks about immigration, they get accused of being racist.