Is it a good idea to offer free housing and money to anyone who knocks on your door or worse yet breaks into your house? Of course it isn't.
In helping people, discrimination (in the most positive sense) is essential. Policies that make for a feel-good political speech often result in unintended negative consequences. Government bureaucratic rules cannot discriminate between those in genuine need and those who need to provide for themselves.
A country should be under no obligation to accept all self-declared refugees. And even in the case of genuine refugees, a country must limit the number of people to no more than reasonable lest the lifeboat sink. When refugees are blocked or sent back in large numbers, people in the source countries begin to reorient themselves toward making the best they can of the situation in their own country rather than running away. This is predominantly a good thing.
In helping people, discrimination (in the most positive sense) is essential. Policies that make for a feel-good political speech often result in unintended negative consequences. Government bureaucratic rules cannot discriminate between those in genuine need and those who need to provide for themselves.
A country should be under no obligation to accept all self-declared refugees. And even in the case of genuine refugees, a country must limit the number of people to no more than reasonable lest the lifeboat sink. When refugees are blocked or sent back in large numbers, people in the source countries begin to reorient themselves toward making the best they can of the situation in their own country rather than running away. This is predominantly a good thing.