no, but to think that if you turn thousands of refugees away you will have less terrorism is very naive. QUOTE]
So your view is that if you allow 1.5 million Muslim migrants into the EU without fully checking their identities you will not have an increased risk of terror attacks.
Now that's naive.
The French have a couple of thousand that they count as dangerous already there. Are there 1,5 million Muslims on the way in? We are getting Serbs, Christians from the M.E. and Africa, not just Muslims. Most of the refugees are not terrorists and are fleeing terrorism. Yes, we should be controlling as much as we can, but half the population of Syria has been displaced and there is plenty going on in North Africa and Afghanistan with more to come. If we turn them all away, then you have more pissed off Muslims and we are breaking our own rules.
How do you fully check their identities? There are so many forged passports, ids and people travelling under false names. Do you write to Aleppo and ask for confirmation of identity?
Hopefully the the winter will reduce the flow of refugees. The Taliban will make their usual winter break and the Syrians will see the reports of horrible conditions in Europe. The only real answer is that the war is stopped as soon as possible.
No-one, even Merkel is advocating uncontrolled immigration. It became that way because of the sheer numbers. Syrians can stay for 3 years as refugees under the Geneva convention before the situation is reviewed. Asylum cases are treated on an individual basis. The trend is going towards treating refugees on an individual basis - as asylum seekers. I don't know if that has started yet for Syrians. People from the Balkans are being sent home and the flow from there has halved.
A refugee is a refugee, there is no upper limit ( in law ) - you cannot say we will give shelter to a certain number to save them from war, and then say to the next one, sorry our quota is full, go back and maybe die.