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opinion poll, broadcast by a plainly incredulous and disgusted BBC, showed that the majority of people in the UK did not want to see more borders opened and more refugees/migrants admitted to the country. Instead, 57 per cent were either in favour of the status quo or wanted the government to take FEWER refugees.
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Migrant crisis: Are these happy young men really timid souls fleeing war and persecution?
THEY aren’t quite the heartrending image of dishevelled, traumatised refugees fleeing the horrors of their war-torn home country one might expect.
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A group of Syrian men pose for snap using selfie stick
Indeed this bunch of asylum seekers - laughing as they take a group selfie on the Greek beach where they had just landed - could be any gang of mates ready to whoop it up on a booze-fuelled sunshine holiday.
The well-dressed, happy and confident looking group of men, ready to claim EU asylum on the island of Lesbos, serves as a remarkable counter image to last week’s heart-breaking photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi whose body was washed up on a Mediterranean beach.
One of the Syrian men holds up 'selfie stick' to capture the moment he and his friends arrived in Lesbos - one of the two Greek Islands bearing the brunt of the mass exodus of refugees and migrants.
A series of photos captured by a photographer on the island show the group of young men doing the two-fingered peace sign and grinning with joy after making the treacherous journey on a rubber boat.
Syrian migrant men pose for selfie fter landing on Greek island | World | News | Daily Express
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Only one in every five migrants claiming asylum in Europe is from
Syria.The EU logged 213,000 arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Campaigners and left-wing MPs have suggested the vast majority of migrants are from the war-torn state, accusing the Government of doing too little to help them.
'This exposes the lie peddled in some quarters that vast numbers of those reaching Europe are from Syria,' said David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth. 'Most people who are escaping the war will go to camps in Lebanon or Jordan.
'Many of those who have opted to risk their lives to come to Europe have done so for economic reasons.'