Imo the governments they're coming from are smart. They send in the bad ones so that they don't have to pay for their nonsense I'm in favour of the walls and calling them 'refugees' is just political correctness gone mad. Keep your country pure and keep those bastards out!

That's some nice JWBing.

Hey man, give credit where credit is due. I was Trumping.

Oh, right.
Apart from enjoying the MB 'discussions' I don't really care enough about Trump either way to read up on what he does and says.

Yeah Frown but remember there may be Beefheart fans among them, and surely you could get at least some cheap labour for your studio? Banging tins, opening and closing windows, rattling bins, you know, the kind of stuff that makes your music so unique.

Actually, in fairness I'd rather keep the jokes out of this. It's a serious situation I see on the news every night and my fellow humans' lack of regard for these unfortunates, and the overall selfishness and case of NIMBY here really disgusts me. I mean, what have these people done that they should be so reviled?

And now we have up to fifty people found dead in a lorry, just trying to escape a war zone and paying for it with their lives. Will this tragedy change European attitudes? Let's hope so, but I'm not putting any big money down. :(

Edit: Damn it! 71... :(

There were 71 bodies inside the truck found abandoned on an Austrian highway and officials found a Syrian travel document inside.

"We must assume now that these are refugees," Hans Peter Doskozil, police director of Austria's Burgenland region, said during a news conference Friday. "In concrete terms it is possible, this is a Syrian refugee group."

Four people have been arrested, including a Bulgarian national of Lebanese origin. The victims included 60 men, eight women and three children -- ages 2, 3, and 8.

As this topic has not been added to imagine while, I thought that I would bump it. I was just curious how they are handling the refugee crisis in your country . Over 2000 people have been applying for asylum per day here in Sweden and they have been creating
Refugee camps everywhere. This has caused a lot of conflict here with talk of closing borders for the refugees ( even the pm has admitted that the amount Sweden is taking in has gotten out of hand) . Places where the refugees might be placed have been burned down and this has caused insurance companies to refuse to insure them ( future residences for refugees). In turn, our national immigration agency has announced that they are now setting up cots in their offices as there is no place to put the refugees.

So my question is, are other countries increasing their intake of refugees? I realizability that Germany is also taking in a large amount but they are the only other country I have really heard about. Taking in an extra hundred or so just doesn't seem that much if you have thousands knocking at the door...

USA: No idea. This country is so big that if China invaded California, and the news decided not to report it, we on the East Coast wouldn't even know. So I couldn't tell you what our country as a whole is doing, but here in Virginia I haven't heard about any refugees.

these people are mainly sunni muslims - why don't the sunni majority countries that are in close proximity to syria take these refugees? you know... societies which come much closer to resembling their culture and which they would have a much easier time assimilating into? why not turkey, saudi arabia, egypt, etc...? why sweden, germany, england, etc...?

the answer is simple. the world knows that western countries are just one big charity at this point. the leaders of saudi arabia and turkey are simply too smart and their stakes are too high for them to make that same mistake.