Why Anti-Migrant Pushback Laws are On the Rise in Europe

Migration laws we have haven't been designed for the current situation of mass migration and weaponising migrants.

It's hard to work within international law when your unfriendly neighbors don't

If following "international Law" means literally giving up on you countrys security and control, it obviusly needs to be changed/ abandoned. It is nothing sacred it is just paper signed by people who couldn`t imagine the current situation.

The whole world can’t all live in Europe.

Look, people have been "rescuing" migrants on the coast of Libya and taking them all the way to Italy. At some point, people realize it's getting ridiculous.

International law is effectively meaningless, there's no punishment for breaking it and no enforcement measures.

We mustn't forget that the current migration laws were all born of the 1984 Ethiopian Famine and other humanitarian crisis of the 80's and 90's. They were never updated to take into consideration the weaponization of migrants, changes in absorption capacity of welcoming nations or the commercialization of illegal migration by criminal organizations.

Yeah, I’m with Finland on this one

Finland is not in an easy position, Russia poses a real risk and they have an enormous border.

Each country has the right to protect their borders and country. The whole of Europe should follow suite.

like an alcoholic realising that beer was destroying his liver in his mid 50s

Asylum has become obsolete. It was instituted post WWII for displaced Europeans. It was then expanded to cover the world. During the Cold War, it worked for the limited number of people who escaped the Warsaw Block. But today, long-range travel has become cheap, and human trafficking has expanded to the point where asylum laws no longer work. But abolishing it is too controversial, so instead we create workarounds like those outlined here. Double morals is worse than no morals.

Russia has been doing the same to Estonia as well before Finland's issue, around the same time or a little later than Belarus doing the same to Lat Lit and Pol

Hybrid warfare participants from Middle East coming from Belarus are not refugees - they have Belarusian tourist visa and can apply for refugee status there if they wish for. Same apply for people coming from Russia.

Sweden needed this law so many decades ago...

They are not refugees, they are Syrian Afghan ETC tourists in Belarus! they are invited there as tourists- with tourist visas! next - there is no war in Belarus so they can seek asylum there.

As a Somali, I support these Finnish procedures for handling economic migrants. I think it's pretty self-explanatory that Europeans are sick and tired of uncontrolled immigration

According to russians their country is a safe country. So asylum seekers can stay there and live happily

I'm all for human rights, and for helping refugees, I'm part of an organisation that the past two years have helped Ukrainian refugees settle in my country, and I have nothing but good to say about them. But the people who are trying to cross the border from Belarus and Russia, they are no longer refugees or migrants. When they accepted the deal with Lukasjenko and Putin, they now became mercenaries in an invasion force. They are no longer subject to the rights of refugees or migrants, they should be seen as the hostile force that they are. If they do not know that they are mercenaries, they should be told so, so they have a chance to return home, and not die as cannon fodder in Putins war on Europe.

Laws dictating the treatment of refugees were designed in the 1950s right after WW2. 75 years later the world is DIFFERENT, and back then nobody weaponised migrants and people didn't migrate to rich countries on such a scale. This means we must change these laws, and protect the borders, and ensure swift deportation procedures for those who come here illegally, or get their visa rejected. What's the point of the entire visa system if after being rejected the migrants / undesirable people can just cross the border on foot and be granted 'asylum', which basically means we are providing housing and food free of charge for those people? This is absolutely ridiculous.