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Even if we accept the 'economic migrants' argument, it cannot be too hard to work out those from the genuine refugees. Those coming from Syria are clearly refugees and we have taken barely any while countries like Germany and Sweden take thousands. I also have sympathy for countries like Hungary and Macedonia who are having to bear the brunt of this influx when they are impoverished countries themselves and we twiddle our thumbs. The UK - and the EU at large - response to this has been an absolute shambles when this is precisely the situation where we should see the benefit of our common European project