Posted on 09/20/2015 8:44:29 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Only one in every five migrants claiming asylum in Europe is from Syria.
The EU logged 213,000 arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Campaigners and left-wing MPs have suggested the vast majority of migrants are from the war-torn state, accusing the Government of doing too little to help them.
'This exposes the lie peddled in some quarters that vast numbers of those reaching Europe are from Syria,' said David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth. 'Most people who are escaping the war will go to camps in Lebanon or Jordan.
'Many of those who have opted to risk their lives to come to Europe have done so for economic reasons.'
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“Many of those who have opted to risk their lives to come to Europe have done so for economic reasons.’”
And political reasons. Just wait two or three months. It will explode once again
DM is just now realizing this?
Send them all to the Saudis.
Too late, Merkel has already opened the gates and let in the barbarians.
Well shut my mouth and call me RACIST, who’d uh thunk it.
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I could not for the life of me figure out why Germany would do this. Then I thought, who hates Jews more Germans? Then it all made a little more sense. Not much, but a little more.
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