That is still a huge distance though, and most of them went to the gulf over going to Europe. They'll have to get out from S.Arabia or Quatar or Dubai and reach Turkey, which will be very difficult for daily wage / construction and hotel workers.

Iraq
https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/iraq-travel-warning.html

Sounds perfectly safe place to me

and Afghanistan,

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings/afghanistan-travel-warning.html

Has been added to my vacation list.

People leaving those countries do so because death or worse awaits them if they stay. While not in the traditional state of Civil war of Syria, they are not stable. They are vast countries, with ineffective governments and civil protection. Both are locked in a battle against IS and other such groups. For many civilians, specially those in rural areas life is every bit as bad as Syria.

People fleeing those countries are not economic migrants, they're refuges.

No, it's perfectly natural. Since higher clergy members have enforced agamy, which by the way is anti-christian practice, since the letters of the apostles advice strongly for "bishops of towns to be married and have children" (in plain english they are forbidden from doing what comes naturally with women), many of them develop strange fetishes. Medieval era popes were even said to have illegal children too, fact/theme which is being written/depicted in various fictional novels, too.

Hence the exclusivity of crippled, old and aged candidates for the higher ranks of clergy, from one historic point onwards.

P.S. Foot fetish is extremely common, besides extremely disgusting, too.

Whatever it is he is doing, it's working.

I don't trust Catholics. I mean face it the Pope is a foreign head of state, he is the head of state of Vatican City. How can anyone follow him and be loyal to their own country.

REMOVE CATHOLICS

He's trying to get them as white as possible before they make it to Europe.

He's trying the fast food version of religious conversion (from the ground up).

He ran out of Air Jordans to give out, and he's trying to apologize in the only way he knows how.

He's washing their feet because they're poor and can't afford shoes as they run to Europe. He's like a religious pit crew for the NASCAR of people. Get their tires aired up, give 'em a bottle of water, a shiny new work VISA and send 'em on their way.

Hindu? Hindu nuffin'.

That's all I've got. Fridays are slow for monologue writing.

Pope Francis is more reason why I am proud not to be a Catholic. He is an absolute idiot if he thinks it is a good thing to flood Europe with more third world migrants (notice I do not call them refugees due to respect towards real refugees) and the United States with more illegal Mexicans.

This is what should happen to any church the pope visits or that houses, knowingly and willingly, Syrian and Iraqi as well as North African migrants or illegal Mexicans...

BETTER SEND IN.....

THE BISHOP!!!


And BTW infinite, THIS GUY is the reason you aren't proud to be a Catholic!? XD So waiting sixty years before finally admitting that The Holocaust was a 'bad' thing was okay with you? XP

If they work here in Europe, wouldn't the companies have to pay them the local minimum wages anyway? I thought if companies want to save money on employee wages, they just set up some factories in China, India, Africa etc. That way they can also save money on other things, such as proper work safety precautions. :/
Serious question: Wouldn't you feel more at home at some sort of KKK forum?

Speak up! He can't hear you over the sound of his burning cross!

The Geneva Convention definition of a refugee doesn't include anyone just having some unrest in their home country.

The refugee status is restricted to individuals who'd face persecution (=systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group) because of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, and is unable to obtain sanctuary from their home country.

That bolded part is also important because it means if you can escape persecution by relocating inside your home country (e.g. inside Iraq or Afghanistan), then you are not eligible to the refugee status.

Furthermore, when someone relocates from e.g. Syria to Turkey, it can be argued they are doing it because they are refugees. Relocating from Turkey to Europe can't quite as easily be rationalized with them being refugees, unless you really claim they are fearing persecution in Turkey.

In both Iraq and Afghanistan there has been decades of war and oppression, it is not surprising to consider this is not going to change any time soon. These people still face an uncertain future with a genocidal enemy which appears resilient to traditional warfare.

It is also ridiculous to assume the first country which borders has to take all refugees. Turkey has a finite number of resources.

This is an international issue, which requires international help.

You know, this could be a great new forum game!

I'll start!

What the hell is the Pope doing?

Kissing someone's feet is unhygienic.

Plus, the immigrants are muslims. Forgiveness, compassion, mercy is not in their religion.

This is being seen as a sign of subordination to immigrant outsiders.

They are doing wonderful things with electroshock now a days. You should give it a try. :D

AND TO EVERYONE ELSE, ALL JOKING ASIDE...

Not all Americans are like this guy. Just the one's who's family trees don't fork. The rest of us really aren't this evil, just really really annoying.