If someone comes to you in an absolutely desperate, wretched state, could you really shut the door on them? I hope not. But that is what countries are doing en masse to the most desperate and genuine refugees.
I call it the Politics of Hate. That kind of politics that makes you hate all others unlike “your” people, and not want to give even an inch to them, because it’ll ruin you, or so the politicians tell us. That kind of politics is everywhere, of course, at home as well. But recently it’s been particularly ugly in Hungary, which effectively slammed the door on refugees by closing the main land route into the European Union (EU). Anyone crossing its borders illegally now will face arrest.