[paulmd]

in fairness, the EU (for example) has not really lived up to its principled position on migrant rights in practice. The northern states have pushed policies that stick the burden for migrants on the first state in which the refugee enters, and since there's not a lot of migrants coming from the arctic circle this pretty much means the much poorer southern states have to shoulder all the costs and effort of assimilation, while the northern states tut about the principles.

[mopsi]

> since there's not a lot of migrants coming from the arctic circle

That's not true at all.

Finland closed the entire border with Russia because Russians kept ferrying migrants to Finnish border. Russia had tried the same tactic against Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland too. Strong response prevented the issue from snowballing out of control like in the Mediterranean where we see one artificial justification after another why nothing can be done.