Europe couldn’t possibly take all of the refugees
The UN says there are about 60 million refugees in the world, almost all of them in the Asian and African continents.
If Europe was to absorb them all, its economy and social services would completely collapse, not to mention that its culture and identity would disappear.
The UN estimates that Africa’s population is to quadruple over the next century to over five billion.
Thus, even if Europe absorbed hundreds of millions of refugees over a few generations, committing civilisational suicide in the process, this still would not solve the problems of over-population and poverty in Africa and Asia.
Ms Harrington also seems oblivious to certain facts about the current situation.
Even the EU’s own statistics agency, Eurostat, admits that only a fifth of migrants coming into Europe are Syrian.
The Hungarian and German authorities admit that about four-fifths of those they have processed are single men, overwhelmingly young. Just last week, the UK charity Human Relief Foundation (HRF) ceased its aid in Calais after its deputy chief executive Kassim Tokan paid a visit there and saw to his horror that so-called refugees were burning food and clothing and that, according to his own estimate, 95-97% of them were young men.
Real refugees, of course, are a healthy mix of men, women and children.
Lastly, Ms Harrington is disingenuous when she says Europe has 740 million people.
That would have to include the entire former Soviet Union which stretches all the way to the Pacific. Last I checked, Siberia isn’t really European.
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