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Originally Posted by Tim Cullis
... When Germany agreed to take hundreds of thousands of Syrians, these were actually economic migrants as they had already previously reached a place of safe refuge (whether that's Turkey or any of the EU countries they travelled through on the way to Germany).
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I don't think that's a fair assessment. Turkey was subjected to more than a million (3 million if I remember correctly) refugees. It is a little heartless to suggest that from that point they become economic migrants.
Let's not forget that despite Fastship's rhetoric and jibes, many of the Syrians who have been displaced are professionals, teachers, shopkeepers, business people, tradesmen ...., not just the usual poor and weak, although I'm sure there are many of those too.
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Paul "Every county of England, every country of Europe and every (part of every inhabited) continent of the Earth" 94% done! What's left? Central America, East, Central and West Africa, Australia & New Zealand
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