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You mean people don't want to live in wartorn and just plain shitty countries and flee to more progressive and human right focused countries. Weird. And now those shitty countries just get shittier because those that could leave did and they are usually the healthy/smart people.
Your theory has a Turkey-sized hole
For the immigrants from Syria, Turkey is an improvement.
You have a point there
Also, Estonia and Lithuania fucking rule.
They are just passing through, let's see the numbers for 2023.
No, they got effectively halted during the time of the immigration deal between Turkey and the EU. Now, that the deal failed, it remains to be seen, if refugees continue to Europe or stay where they are.
Norway had a birth number of 1.41 in 2022. We are absolutely dependent on immigration to uphold our society.
We have our flaws as well, but we're not a shitty country