There is a difference between a refugee fleeing for his or her life and a migrant travelling to gain a better life.
A refugee will run to the first safe place, thankful they are there.
A migrant picks and chooses based on the economic benefits available in this country or that one.
If one had tried to slap the term ‘refugee’ on the majority of those persons coming ashore in Greece or Italy, it would quickly drop off. That is because those persons coming ashore don’t want to stay in Greece or Italy, they have plans where to go.
A few thousands decided they wanted to go to England. England did not want them. But they decided that they’d ‘force’ England to take them by packing into the French Sea port of Calais and getting the TV cameras rolling.
This didn’t work. And when pressure was put on England to take refugees by the European Union, England made it’s ‘Brexit’.
The news and what it meant took some time to get into the comprehension of those who believed if they stayed in Calais long enough and got enough publicity, Britain would take them.
The people who actually live in Calais didn’t like ‘The Jungle”. This was their town and what it had become was nothing you’d put on a postcard.
The decision to close ‘The Jungle” was not a surprise and plans were made to move the people to various centres and process them. Those who qualified could be given asylum, those who didn’t could be returned to wherever they came from.
But one thing was non-negotiable; they were NOT going across the Channel.
Most of the people decided to take the offer. Get on a bus, go somewhere that is warm, clean and has food.
A number of children were left behind, but the adults left willingly.
The burning of The Jungle began and Charities found about 100 children remained there. They begged for the dismantling of the site halted.
Save the Children is was “extremely concerned” about the children who had not been registered.
The shipping containers near the camp were full, and many children were outside with nowhere to go.
Of course, not all those who were at the camp peacefully left.
A man named Hamid, from Afghanistan, spoke to reporters and said he had been setting fire to shelters. “We don’t care about problems that are to come after this. We did it because we don’t want to stay in France. We want to go to England and England only. It doesn’t matter if I go to jail here.”
Which only confirmed that Hamid, and those like him, are not refugees.
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Yes, people migrate from one country to an other country for a better life but all attempt illegally that is negative point of entrance into another country. Every year thousands of people cross the border of USA and UK, Italy and Germany...but most of the people could not reach the destination and many of them arrested on the way.
An estimated 8.1 million are either working or looking for work. Some are paid in cash, but many illegal immigrants use fake Social Security numbers to secure jobs, and are thus U.S. taxpayers. Half of America's illegal immigrants are thought to pay income taxes in some form: in 2010, they contributed an estimated $10.6 billion in state and local taxes, and $13 billion in Social Security.
Contrary to common perception, illegal immigrants don't qualify for public benefits like welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid, as these programs require proof of legal immigration status. However, the children of undocumented immigrants do receive certain benefits, in the form of public schooling and emergency medical care; if they're born in the U.S., they qualify for welfare benefits too.
The Heritage Foundation has calculated that the average illegal immigrant household costs taxpayers $14,387 a year, though many economists have questioned the assumptions used to reach that figure.
The fact that has taken Europe a few years to catch is that many so called refugees are not ... that the dangers of open borders has been proven.. and that it is always useless to implement patches on poor policy.