Most Of The World's Refugees Are Too Poor To Travel

Washington Post: Most Syrian refugees are just too poor to flee to Europe

BEIRUT — Images of his countrymen streaming into Europe inspired Bassem al-Alyan to make the journey. But like many other Syrian refugees, he faces a significant obstacle.

Alyan is too poor to go.

Last month, he said, he paid a smuggler $1,500 that he managed to raise by selling his children’s beds, his pregnant wife’s jewelry and their refrigerator. After he and his sickly son reached Germany, the plan was to bring over the rest of the family from a destitute refugee camp in Lebanon’s capital.

But it all fell through after the smuggler disappeared with Alyan’s cash, he said.

“I don’t know what to do. I’ve lost everything,” Alyan, a 30-year-old native of the Syrian city of Daraa, said from Beirut’s Bourj el-Barajneh camp.

WNU Editor: One can say the same thing for most of world's migrants/refugees .... they are just too poor to travel to Europe .... otherwise the EU will now be confronting a migration crisis 50 times what it is today. Another factor that will stem the flow of migrants to Europe is weather .... winter is just around the corner.