on the move for economic reasons, they're not refugees, for example.

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The word refugee has certain connotations.

The word migrant does.

Remember after Katrina - the media calling American citizens 'refugees'? So - is it the media just don't know the correct meaning of the word?

Especially, if they have been in a safe zone like Greece or Turkey for the last couple of years. Now, they are looking for a better life for themselves.

I was listening to BBC radio last night, and heard that the UK is considering only taking refugees from the refugees camps because accepting those who are making the dangerous trip over water is just encouraging more deaths. They'll also have more control over who enters the country.

Right now, approximately 80% of the migrants/refugees who are streaming into Europe are young men of military age. Sure, some have left families behind and intend to bring them over, but it's beginning to dawn on some officials that allowing that many single men in may not bode well for the nation taking them in. A few of them are already creating quite the mayhem.

Taking in families, especially those families with children who should be getting an education makes sense. Surely, they should be the first helped.