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Refugee Quota Poll

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  • #52
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Samaris wrote: »
    Because basic humanity for a start.

    Yes, there's limits and there's things that need to be done. But the whole "Ban them all, they add nothing to the state and I'm alright jack so I don't give a flying if thousands die" is selfish nonsense. The argument seems to be "if you support immigration you support unfettered immigration and you're a liberal idiots" versus "if you don't support immigration you want to ban everyone and you're a right-wing racist". Most people who want to argue "yes, we have a duty to take in refugees, as other countries have always done, including for us, but there is a massive crisis at the moment and countries need to work together to deal with it" get shouted down.

    It'll be interesting to see how the argument changes when Ireland is being badly impacted by climate change and could start producing ...oh dear, economic migrants to deal with it. I suspect it will change quite sharply around that point. We'll probably manage to keep it up when it's only the Spanish, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians etcetera being affected, because why should we have to take in our neighbours? But eventually it'll hit us too. Not sure where we'll go. North, I assume.

    I agree its basic Humanity.

    We should take in refugees, but Climate Change will take place over this whole Earth not just this little Island near the Atlantic.


  • #53
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    More than 4,000
    The vast majority of those attempting to enter Europe are economic migrants, not refugees.

    Australia has very clearly stated that anyone attempting to enter the country by boat will never be allowed resettle in that country. Meanwhile in Europe, we have NGO's tripping over each other to pull those funding the traffickers onto their ships & EU naval personnel acting as a glorified ferry service for those who deliberately put their lives (and those of their children) at risk.

    It's an absolute disconnect from common sense on quite a staggering scale & shows a real contempt for ordinary Europeans, who have voiced an increasing unease at the volume and rate at which their communities are being asked to absorb the socio-economic cost of this stupidity.


  • #54
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod-This thread will end up the same as every other refugee thread. Op. if you wish to start another go to politics cafe but ask the mods first if its ok.

    Locked

    Edit from Samaris (with permission :P): My bad, I was distracted by the poll! This really should have been deleted/closed straight off as it's one of a stream of the same threads repeatedly.


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