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Originally Posted by dereds
I've a theoretical preference for open borders. I've seen work extolling the benefits of immigration to the receiving country but the economic arguments aren't decisive for me being what you would probably consider a moral masturbator.
However the case of refugees and economic migrants are different and I'm good with treating them separately.
That may not have been the nicest thing to say but its meant to be directed at people who think that getting them over here is one of their (the refugees') better options while Im much more in favor of stabilizing the area where possible. These people often do not even want to move and recently there have been increasing numbers of them who have shown interest in returning to their (at war) country because they want to rejoin their family, can't adapt to the local culture or because the accommodations aren't what they thought they would be.
Any war refugee is welcome in my country in my opinion, the current policies are just not very adequate when it comes to defining who is and who isn't a refugee, partly because of the open borders within EU part you described previously and partly because of the huge pressure on the institutions responsible for registering and vetting incoming refugees. My points of criticism are pretty much never against the refugees themselves but rather against people encouraging them to come and my own countries and the EU's failing policies.