Europe's migrant problem

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Reality is not pretty but we have think of ourselves first. The sign should read NO VACANCY

[Torplexed]

Quite a change from 1979. The US, which had a military presence in Vietnam for decades and also bombed Cambodia and Laos, eventually took in over 1 million Indochinese "boat people" from 1979-97, while another combatant, Australia, took 185,000 and the former colonial master, France, over 100,000. Each seemed to implicitly accept either some responsibility for the postwar mess, or a a desire to help people escape some of the punitive policies of the Hanoi government.

Today, not so much.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Quite a change from 1979. The US, which had a military presence in Vietnam for decades and also bombed Cambodia and Laos, eventually took in over 1 million Indochinese "boat people" from 1979-97, while another combatant, Australia, took 185,000 and the former colonial master, France, over 100,000. Each seemed to implicitly accept either some responsibility for the postwar mess, or a a desire to help people escape some of the punitive policies of the Hanoi government.

Today, not so much.

...and almost all those people wanted to integrate into our societies as productive members. Today, not so much i think? Maybe a portion even want to tear our societies apart? We've already got enough unproductive "units" as it is. Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe!

[Betonov]