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underahedgerow

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26. If you look through the many pictures making the rounds this week you'll notice one thing in

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 11:05 AM

Sep 2015

particular. At least 98% of the people struggling to get on the trains and to make their way to the EU are young males. Granted the media focuses on families and small children, but pull the camera lens out a bit and it's overwhelmingly young males.

So... why aren't they staying home to fight the wretches destroying their own countries? What happened to 'women and children first'? You can bet a lot of these young guys are married, have sisters, mothers, etc. So they're abandoning their families to save their own skins. Or to take advantage of the upheaval for their own agendas, to heck with everyone else, right? Who's looking after the women and children left behind?

Not guys I'd want in my country. Put them into refugee centers and process them in accordance with the immigration laws.

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Refugees in Hungary tricked onto train which is taking them to "camps", journalists forced to leave [View all] dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 OP

OMG, this sounds like, it's reminiscent of WWII! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2015 #1

My precise thought malaise Sep 2015 #4

Yeah.....that was my first impression too. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 #8

If I understood the BBC correctly, the refugees/immigrants TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2015 #14

If Hungary has a problem with the refugees, why don't they allow them B Calm Sep 2015 #2

Travel to where? DetlefK Sep 2015 #3

To Germany. . B Calm Sep 2015 #5

Hasn't Germany agreed to accept them? Hungary and Germany are both Schengen countries, pampango Sep 2015 #6

WTF? Seriously. WTF??? DetlefK Sep 2015 #11

Germany has declared their willingness to accept the refugees. No one is forcing them to. pampango Sep 2015 #12

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says Schengen code is under threat, migrants are 'a German problem' dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 #7

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this really is an existential question for the EU Recursion Sep 2015 #22

in other words.......... dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 #27

Yup. Austria's border with Hungary is de facto closed Recursion Sep 2015 #28

See post 14 above TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2015 #15

Because they have treaty obligations forbidding that Recursion Sep 2015 #20

I hope they're not sending them to Oswiecim, Poland. N/t ryan_cats Sep 2015 #9

Hungary needs to let these war refugees reach asylum in the countries that want them! MoonRiver Sep 2015 #10

See post 14 above. Actually see post 13 below. TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2015 #16

Refugees have to stay in the country they first request asylum while the claim is investigated Marrah_G Sep 2015 #13

Thank you. TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2015 #17

Germany suspends 'Dublin rules' for Syrians to alleviate the burden on border countries. pampango Sep 2015 #18

Oh, I had not heard that. Thank you!!!! Marrah_G Sep 2015 #19

Thank you for this info. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2015 #21

Hemingway might have wanted to look up the word "defense." WinkyDink Sep 2015 #24

Of course, the bitter irony is two-fold: Germany's lecturing other nations (e.g., UK); and WANTING WinkyDink Sep 2015 #23

OMG I was afraid of this, thought I was being paranoid. eShirl Sep 2015 #25

If you look through the many pictures making the rounds this week you'll notice one thing in underahedgerow Sep 2015 #26