Andy Ngo Quotes

The poor economic health of Europe contributed to the migrant crisis. All the migrants wanted to flood to the few healthy countries—–like Germany and the U.K.

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.

Poland is ready to admit every refugee who arrives in Poland, fleeing the war in the Middle East, no matter their faith or economic status, provided that they comply with our legal regulations and want to stay in our country.

It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

I recognize and appreciate the legitimate concerns of residents and officials in southwestern New Mexico, particularly Hidalgo County, who have asked for our assistance, as migrants and asylum-seekers continue to appear at their doorstep.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

If Macron thinks there is no immigration crisis in Italy, he should open his doors to the 9,000 migrants France agreed to welcome from Italy in accordance with signed European agreements.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.

Our feeling of community and security in Europe requires safe external borders.

The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

Luckily, Europe, step by step, recognised that these mass refugee movements to Europe cannot work.

If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.