Estonia announced that the country may be forced to close its border crossing points with Russia due to increased migration pressures, Estonian Police and Border Guard announced on Feb. 13.
“In recent weeks, Russia has deliberately directed to the Estonian border groups of foreigners lacking the legal right to enter the European Union,” the statement reads. “If these activities continue, we will be forced to close border crossing points to protect national security and public order, as has already been done in Finland due to migration pressure.”
The Estonian government has noted an influx of migrants and asylum seekers from Russia over recent months.
OK if you are going down the road of ignorance toward both Estonian politics and the economic situation then we can drop that.
Are you really saying it’s the norm for countries to help every person in the world equally and not prioritise it’s citizens? Also by prioritising it’s own citizens they also prioritise the 20 or so % Russian population living here. People’s lives have equal worth but the responsibility to help someone falls on their nation first and foremost.
I am not saying it is the norm. I am saying it is right-wing, natonallistic and racist. Which is unfortuenately the norm. I am saying it is unethical and morally inexsusable, not that it is not normal.
It would be absolutely great if every single country in the world would care about every person equally. Both China and the US have enough resources and space to fit like every single refugee in the world so that would be an easy fix but that’s not the situation.
I agree, it would be. But instead of passing regulations to make Europe (just as rich and more populous that US) take refugees from countries they are in war with. Instead we are focusing on closing borders of other countries, not only so they can’t take refugees themselves, but to stop them from actually getting assylim in places they can, like EU. There is a difference in not fighting for right regulation to make a World more just, but to fight for new regulation that is making it less so, is definitely immoral.
The EU is not a federal government, it’s a trade alliance. It has no power to control how many refugees a country accepts.
So they can’t stop Estonia from accepting more refugees?
Nope, of course not.
Great, then Estonia should accept more refugees and there is no reason to worry about EU having a problem with it.
They wouldn’t. If those refugees started crossing into other countries without permission of said countries then there would be problems and since Estonia doesn’t have the resources to keep them it’s not viable.