Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Emigration is always a difficulty.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
America is the last great goal of these migrations.
Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.
Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
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