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Originally Posted by Livia

They are predominantly young men between 18 and 30 trying to enter this country illegally. That's how I judge them. And if they're trying to enter here illegally it makes me question the legitimacy of their refugee status, or surely a large number of them would have stopped at the first safe country they arrived in... or the second... or the third.

The best way for refugees to enter this country is via the UN camps where we can have some kind of certainty about who the people entering are and we can make a priority of families with kids.

If they know about such places and the system fair enough, what if they are just so desperate to feel safer that they try to cut corners,
We don't know them personally to understand why in desperation people appear to do strange things.
I really don't see what age has to do with things either,facing being forced into military service and getting your head lopped off by IS or others, or becoming part of IS and getting bombed to blazes. no wonder they try to flee.

Until we were in such desperate situations, we can only assume what could be the panic and fear these people feel.
There may not be any rational answer at all as to how and why they act in such a desperate situation.

Not for me there isn't anyway.
It is far too easy to take the line of all is either black or white while totally ignoring all the vast grey areas.