04-24-2017, 04:24 PM
(04-24-2017, 04:02 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I have trouble believing that. How many of them tried to get to the UK or Sweden before they stopped accepting anymore? We're talking like ~3,000 miles from Syria to Sweden.
If you were interested in getting back home, why not stop in Turkey, Italy, Greece, Spain? Places close to your home, where it would be easy to return.
Instead you head 3,000-ish miles, through half a dozen/a dozen perfectly safe countries, to the ones with the best benefits and accommodations. Once you pass by more than 1 safe country to your destination, you stop being a refugee and start being an attempted immigrant looking for good benefits, nice economy, well paying jobs, etc. A lot of the refugees aren't even from Syria. Many are coming from Africa.
Short, simple answer: those countries wouldn't accept them.
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