Stupid, stupid, stupid immigration systems. I should note that protesting against this is not an anti-immigrant thing at all. Nor should it be turned into an anti-immigration thing.
Many countries have wonderfully good (planned) immigration systems while having awful refugee systems. And every time something like this happen, it pisses me off quite a bit - having gone through a rigorous point system, interviews, criminal checks and health exams, with my family having to spend our last savings to even get a chance at immigration to Canada - and then struggle to make ends meet here, I don't see how something like this could possibly be considered fair.
Sure refugees should be helped, but there needs to be a rather staunch limit on this. There is terrible abuse of this system in many Western countries.
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