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Additionally, they are not refugees at all. By international law's definition they stop being refugees when they reach the first safe country, which for most of them is Turkey, or Saudi Arabia, or other Middle East/African country.By the time they decide to go to Europe they are just plain old immigrants, seeking for better life standard, and we should treat them as such.

So far the most reasonable approach to the refugee issue was proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister, who wants EU to help them right there, in the Middle East, instead of letting them in.




You'll be happy to know that, by and large, your wish is actually truth: Of the ten million or so refugees from Syria, 8+ million are in Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W...




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