It's not true, most migrants are fleeing war
This argument is used in the debates Does being on the left necessarily mean being in favor of mass immigration? and Should we accept immigration?.
This argument is an objection to Many migrants are young men, economic refugees, who do not correspond to the refugees from the war in Ukraine, women, old people and children..
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“This is the other recurring discourse on migrants. Those fleeing war are said to represent only a minority.
"The reality is that the vast majority of these people come for economic reasons!" #BourdinDirect - MLP_officiel (@Marine Le Pen) [1]
Or, that's not true. According to the same UNHCR figures, Syrians, thus coming from a country in the throes of one of the most violent civil wars, alone accounted for 54% of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in 2015. The second most represented nationality was Afghans, a country also in the throes of civil war (13%), followed by Eritreans, from a state under totalitarian dictatorship (7%), then Iraqis, also at war (3%), Nigerians, whose country suffers regular massacres by groups like Boko Haram (3%), Somalia, a country in an advanced state of decomposition (2%)....”
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Syrian refugees are often Islamists