Have a slight feeling that there'll be thousands of people taking advantage of the whole thing to get a foot up in a developed country. But still, the crisis out there can't be avoided at present. The people floating on rubber dinghys in the Med, the poor children drowning genuinely fleeing war and opression, they simply cannot be ignored and need all the help they can get.
The picture of the small child washed up on the beach in Turkey almost tore me to shreds. He's no older than my own son and looking at that image made me want to hop in the car, head off to the nearest port and jump on a boat to help save those poor souls. Heartbreaking stuff, only serving currently to make me appreciate just what I have here and how different life could be in a country torn apart by war.
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