Hawkwind
FH is my second home
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Crazy situation and EU is baring the brunt of the exodus whilst the rich Gulf and Arab nations do nothing to assist. The UAE has pretty much stopped all VISA from Syria and the Lebanon. Even Syrian's that have been living here for years are finding it difficult. Guy at work (French Algerian decent, with Fr passport) is married to a Syrian, he got phoned by HSBC to tell him that they have to close his accounts due to security concerns! He argued for week with them then finally moved the accounts to a local bank (NDB). Workers at the airports are not getting their work visa's renewed if they are from certain countries. Crazy situation! But does that get noticed by the news networks?
Most of the people at the borders are not asylum worthy but still it is a massive task to start sorting them out. I'd hope that they would start processing families and women with children as a priority. All the young men you see can wait.
See lots of African and Indian/Pakistani men there. Was watching Sky News on Friday when the reporter was detailing the horror of the situation and pointed out a group of around 60 young men sitting together, asking where they came from one answered, "Lahore!". The reporter seemed dumb stuck for a second or two and rather than talk further to them he moved on to a young Syrian women with a 4-5 year old girl.
Seems to me that the figures of 80/20 economic vs asylum worth is about right. EU needs to act humanly but firmly rejecting those clearly there for reasons other than escaping the atrocities in Syria etc.
Most of the people at the borders are not asylum worthy but still it is a massive task to start sorting them out. I'd hope that they would start processing families and women with children as a priority. All the young men you see can wait.
See lots of African and Indian/Pakistani men there. Was watching Sky News on Friday when the reporter was detailing the horror of the situation and pointed out a group of around 60 young men sitting together, asking where they came from one answered, "Lahore!". The reporter seemed dumb stuck for a second or two and rather than talk further to them he moved on to a young Syrian women with a 4-5 year old girl.
Seems to me that the figures of 80/20 economic vs asylum worth is about right. EU needs to act humanly but firmly rejecting those clearly there for reasons other than escaping the atrocities in Syria etc.