Quote Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland View Post
It's a fact of life these days. Way more immigrants end up in Germany, France, Italy etc than make it over here, and numbers are going up all over the world. How do you stop so many people wanting to flee their own countries to make a better life for themselves and their families? Perhaps we shouldn't have cut our overseas aid budget.

Numbers will keep going up when more and more of the planet becomes uninhabitable due to climate change too.

(There, that's calmed the debate down by throwing in foreign aid and climate change ��).
haha, you are absolutely right on all points, although I'm okay with the temporary aid budget cut and we are still far more generous than most.

Climate change in particular could render great swathes of the world as unsuitable for viable habitation. In terms of making other countries better places to live, it's a very difficult thing to solve.

My point is merely that this is an issue, we shouldnt pretend it isn't, and the practicalities of dealing with that level of daily migration (its not 1000 every day of course) is significant. They all need to be housed, fed, processed, checked, looked after etc etc