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I consider migration justified only in the case of a direct threat to life. All these Eastern European migrants in Western Europe, like any other migrants in Europe, must return to their Motherland and develop their native countries. Nobody except the Poles will make Poland a highly developed country. No one except Egyptians or Pakistanis will make Egypt or Pakistan an advanced and rich countries.I find stuff like that very interesting. Here in Britain, Polish and Eastern European people are (wrongly, in my opinion) looked down upon by some sections of our society. Xenophobes see them as a burden, see them as scroungers and fear too many are coming over to Britain, this is partly what motivated Brexit. Yet of those people being discriminated against here, in their native country, some of them it seems have no issue whatsoever applying those arguments against brown boat people of the Med. These arguments are largely the same as yours by the way. @ValerioAurelius
I can't speak for other countries, but Britain actually needs a fairly high immigration rate to sustain economic growth, what little we have, and to avoid demographic problems due to an ageing population in the long run. Plenty of Brits have been fed enough propaganda by our tabloid gutter press that people have been led to believe that immigration is a net negative for the UK economy, when it's not the case. And when it comes to European immigration, the high numbers of people coming in from a European background add a very noticeable net positive to the UK economy, yet that didn't deter us from voting for Brexit and believing exactly the opposite.
There are a lot of legitimate problems in Europe, very legitimate ones, including concerns about refugees, immigration and the downsides of having the Schengen area. But the bigger problems are economic and democratic. The people calling for disintegration of the EU aren't offering any solutions, nationalism, and some xenophibic populism at the expense of foreigners and other Europeans isn't going to solve anything.
However, I also believe that when the percentage of non-European people in France, Germany or Sweden reaches a certain limit, these countries will be plunged into the same poverty as the countries from which migrants arrived.