One of the main reasons people voted for Brexit was that we could decide who moves to the UK. Being told by the EC to accept all immigrants from the EU was never going to go down well in this country. As cat says, asylum seekers should indeed be judged on the merits of each individual regardless of numbers. It's interesting to see that EU countries are increasingly following the UK in re-evaluating their policies on unfettered immigration, especially following increased protests around the bloc. Take Germany for example
from themigrantproject.org
"Asylum seekers in Germany are facing an increase in negative and hostile attitudes, according to a study into German attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers. The study, commissioned by the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Foundation, found that Germans are increasingly hostile towards asylum seekers despite a significant decrease in migrant arrivals in Germany. The findings reveal that more than half – 54.1% – of respondents expressed negative opinions about asylum seekers, far higher than the peak of the migration crisis between 2015 and 2016.
The study found that there were extremely negative views of asylum seekers in the eastern areas of Germany , where two out of three (63 percent) of those surveyed expressed a negative opinion of asylum seekers. The increase in hostility toward refugees and asylum seekers in Germany has also been fueled by a number of terrorist attacks in the country and elsewhere in Europe. Across Europe, there has also been a rise in anti-immigration sentiment. For example, in Germany where hate crimes on refugees were recorded at increasingly high levels.
A similar study released by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in February 2019 also showed that new asylum seekers were ten times more likely to be victims of hate crimes in the eastern areas of Germany than in the western parts."
www.thelondoneconomic.com
