Immigration Crisis, getting what we deserve? Options

[Andy Capp]

Anyone feel that the current much reported immigration issue is an example of doing something when we shouldn't (Iraq) and not doing something when we should (Syria)? Or is is this a more complex and multifaceted issue. People see what an open society we have compared to their own lot and want a taste of it too? An unintended consequence of an open boarder policy?

[spartacus]

They would turn on you because they would think - rightly - what idiot would put their family in danger when they didn't have to. Compared to somebody fleeing from a war-torn country. In fact I would go as far as seeing you put into jail.

Whatever hellish and war-torn place he left he's happy enough to be going back there to bury his children. It's difficult and there are a lot of people keeping their opinions to themselves for fear of being seen as heartless but once the media storm settles I wonder how differently 'these people' will be treated in the press if they start camping out in London parks and start begging in the streets and generally causing mayhem like the Romanians were guilty of as far as the papers were concerned. The same papers that wanted the Romanians booted out last year now have a different Crusade this year in that everyone should be welcomed.