Footage of migrants jumping on lorries at Calais today - shouldn't we be helping?

Not our concern.
We deal with them once they're here, not beforehand.

We have plenty of space to build more housing.

Crazy footage from the BBC of migrants jumping on lorries at Calais during strike of port workers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33235390

I think the British government needs to step in and help these people. Let them come give, give them a British passport and a job. They must be so desperate to jump on the back of a Lorry.

I'm going to try and keep an open mind and let you convince me why you believe that:

A) People from Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea) where we have not caused conflict should be invited
B) It should be us that accept the migrants, despite that they went through 3 or more countries that are as rich as us or richer.
C) Why you believe that people escaping from war zones should be placed here, despite international law underlining that asylum seekers should be able to seek refuge in "nearest safest country"
D) Where will they live, what is their future and how will they be funded

Surely we are not the nearest safest country to Syria, Eritrea, Somalia or Ethiopia, no?

Since you have personally argued that there is no housing in this country for natives, where is the housing in this country for non-natives?

OK lets not go insane. I'm not saying that anyone who is desperate for anything should get it.

But these people come from desperate situations; fleeing war, poverty etc. Don't we have a moral obligation to help them?

I do wonder why they don't just claim asylum in France. What is so terrible about France that people would rather risk their lives hanging under lorries to come here??

"Footage of burglars kicking someone's door in - shouldn't we be helping?

They must be so desperate for a new telly and laptop, why don't we give it to them?"

The difference with burglars is that its unlikely that they are doing it because we bombed their country and plunged their country or at least contributed to pushing it into chaos of which thy are desperate to escape.

Your lack of compassion is shocking. What if it were you on the back of that van so desperate to come to the UK to find work to feed your family and escape persecution that you were prepared to risk your life?

The way people in Britain talk about immigrants as though they are scum is disgusting.

The reason why most migrants - legal or illegal - come, or try to come, to the UK is that they feel(in most cases wrongly)that their situation would drastically improve were they to come and get a job here. Most come from countries that are either very poor or in a very bad situation, for example warzones. I think what we need to do is deal with the root cause of the problem and be proactive in trying to improve the situations in those countries so that people there won't think that they can get a better life by coming to the UK.

But that implies we have to interfere and sometimes with force with other countries

This also sounds like the racism of 'low expectations' in that 'we have to help them as they can't help themselves'

But in most cases the countries' governments are extremely corrupt or extremely ineffective, so they genuinely can't help themselves. It's not racist, it's true.