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I really don't understand why we are taking any refugees at all.
Japan for example, under the same 1951 agreement, gave asylum to 11 in total of the 5000+ applicants last year. They have less than 2% of foreign nationals in their country, a higher GDP than us, the lowest crime rate of any industrialised society and somehow have enough home grown workers to man their hospitals, drive their public transport and pick their seasonal fruit and vegetables.
What is this strange guilt trip that we seem to have embarked upon, when having been born in a fairly affluent and civilised society, we seem determined to change it all, by not only adding over 600000 immigrants a year but now also taking in some of the 6 million displaced people of the world, which looking at the scale of the problem will be about as much use as homeopathic medicine?
Interestingly the State of Israel, which one might think post WW2 would have a liberal view to those in trouble, has only granted asylum to just over 200 people during its entire existence.
This is why Israel is still a Jewish State and Japan is still wonderfully Japanese, and long may they continue to be so.
