man-bear-pig said: What they should have done is created guarded safe zones within Syria and/or made neighbouring Muslim countries accept more refugees where they could've assimilated into society better. Anyone can just throw their passport into the Mediterranean and claim they're a refugee and be accepted into Europe. It's fucked up |
Most migration is internal migration and to neighbouring countries though (exept for countries like Saudi-Arabia, which does absolutely nothing).
Creating hotspots in these countries to do checks would have been easier, since transport by air to Europe is actually safer and cheaper and it would be much more efficiënt to weed out terrorists.
Also, don't mistake Merkels policy as an act of kindness to these people. While Europe should definitly clean up the mess which is the refugee crisis (and which Europe had a large part in making), the main reason why so many refugees are let in is because the German economy, for all it's diversiveness and high manufacturing standards, really keeps growing as much as it is because of cheap mass labour in export industries. Since labour laws got a bit more difficult, companies wanted a fresh influx of cheap labour. The refugee crisis was for Merkel an excellent way of absorbing a lot of these people in German wage slave labour.