NY Times: A Migration Juggernaut Is Headed for Europe

[branford]

21. Do you believe those Syrians (or anyone else) have a

actual right to transit through safe countries and then choose which countries they wish to immigrate?

As we've had this discussion before elsewhere on DU, you know full well that refugees who "asylum shop," and fail to declare once they're in a safe country, normally cannot maintain asylum in their chosen destination country because, at that point, they're little more than economic migrants.

Respectfully, your posts generally seem advocate an effective worldwide open borders policy (or something quite close), and attempt to justify and enforce it through moral blackmail (e.g., claims about lack of humanity of your opponents, etc.). You are certainly free to hold such beliefs, but they definitely are not standard or default positions of the Democratic Party or even most left of center political parties in more liberal Europe, nor consistent with otherwise fairly liberal international laws concerning true refugees and migrants.