People are trying to flee to somewhere familiar, be it because of language or brand presence. Additionally, many report they want to join family (cousins etc) already in the uk through legal means. I'm sure there are charlatans among them - but we are enacting collective punishment currently, which was largely abolished centuries ago.

What's your take on the 3000 refugee a year limit the uk is working to? (20,000 by 2020)

Somewhere familiar? How is Denmark or Sweden or Germany familiar to Syria?

If you flee because of war you don't care where you go, you just want to get away from the war. Moving to Denmark or UK or Sweden is a completely different operation.

Keep in mind that most people are left in the refugee camps near the conflict. For every person we have to take into our welfare system we are basically not able to provide for 10 if not hundreds of others in the actual area of the conflict.

The idea with being an actual refugee is that you are supposed to go back once the conflict is over and rebuild your own country. Thats not the plan of those who move so far away.

You are trying to turn something with a lot of gray areas into som black/white moral thing were the only right thing to do is help.

Sweden said just come everyone everyone warned them. Now they have closed the borders and is sending 80.000 back.

This is because they didn't realize that Denmark did which is you can't just take people in large quantity with such different cultures without it undermining the country they are migrating to.

It's easy to play the good person when you don't have responsibility for a country.