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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I agree that there are obviously limited resources, but I don't think it's particularly helpful to lump two issues (a refugee crisis and home-grown social poverty) together like this and hope to come up with a meaningful answer. Finding homes for refugee children is a totally different issues to the generation-upon-generation social deprivation of our own people that leads to homeless British kids. In both cases, just "finding them homes" is really putting a sticking plaster on a deep, infected wound... the true solutions to each problem run much deeper but are completely different.

They may be different issues but one is nevertheless impacting on the other. We simply cannot help everyone and should concentrate on those already here.

There is no doubt in my mind that genuine refugees will travel to the first safe country, not travel further to get to Britain for economic benefit.