Migrants will put strain on resources
SIR – We thoroughly agree with Adam Amos that we should not open the doors to any more migrants, putting more strain on our resources. For a start we cannot build houses fast enough round here, we have been living in a building site in Brookthorpe Close tor the past 21 months and they still haven’t finished building yet!! Our National Health Service and schools are stretched to capacity. There are not enough facilities available for our own people who have been paying in all their lives.
Also it is not fair to keep unloading the ships in Greece, they have enough problems of their own. The European orders were that people in danger can seek asylum in the next country not travel across the seas for what they can get for nothing in another country. So when rescued they should be returned back to their own country, until they are they will keep coming. Also how do we know that Isis will not be smuggled in amongst the migrants!!
The traffickers just take their money and then leave them to make their on way. We were all upset to see the bodies of the little boys on the beach, but they were safe in Turkey and the only reason their lives were put at risk, was because their parents were trying to get here!! Also yesterdays pictures of the people breaking out from the migrant camps and hauling their children across those fields was disgusting!!
It makes more sense to help them to stay in their own country and rebuild that. 
WENDY TURBERFIELD

Worcester

We should look after our own people
SIR – Why is it people are asking themselves that although we have no jobs for our own people or housing and have people with little money to feed themselves food banks.
That people of our own are sleeping in the streets. How can the Government and do gooders think we can cope with 20,000 more people coming here.
Also asking people to take these people in if you have a spare room. We don’t take our own people in so why would we take other refugees in. They are having a laugh.
Let the people who thought this up take these people in. No-one knows what some of these people are like. We all feel for these people but we don’t think a lot of them are fleeing their country for the right reasons.
I believe and a lot more people I have been talking to. It’s the good life of benefits housing a free hand out, that brings a lot of them here.
They should be vetted if genuine let in to our already spoilt country. If not send them packing back to their own countries. We are too soft, send them home.
MRS C ROBERTS
Worcester

How do we know refugees are genuine?
SIR – We are informed that this country over the next four years is to accept having been placed under pressure by the EU a total of 20,000 Syrian refugees who will immediately be given houses, welfare benefits, medical benefits, school places etc. while residents are having to wait for a home, fight to get their child into the school they want. These refugees are paying people traffickers between £4,000 / £5,000 per person to smuggle them into Europe. If they have that sort of cash available then they could purchase an airline ticket to which ever country they wish to settle in and apply for asylum immediately they arrive and have spare cash available to set themselves up with a house etc.
The EU has ruled that those trying to cross the Mediterranean in boats are to be rescued and delivered into Europe. These persons should be rescued for their own safety but then returned to Libya and the boats used destroyed. If this was policy then those trying to get into Europe this way would soon give up and the people smugglers would be out of business.
How does the EU powers that be know that the so called refugees are genuine? The problem in the Middle East and Africa are being caused by Muslim fanatics who are trying to impose their will on the rest of Europe and any other country along with their laws. Already in this country they are insisting on having their own schools and where there is a sizeable Muslim presence try to take over the running of that school and impose their will.
The current situation in Europe is reminiscent of what it was like in Europe in the mid 1930s when the National Socialist party took control of Germany and everyone knows what that led to. If allowed to continue then it is possible history will repeat itself, not with one country trying to take control but that of the 13th century when the crusades took place to ensure that Christianity remained a choice for the people of the Middle East and Jerusalem remained Christian.
R KNIGHT
Shropshire

Who is going to foot the bill for it all?
SIR – Refugees/migration is big news at the moment and sadly there has been great loss of life and stories of hardship almost every day in the news. I am, however, perplexed to read in Worcester News on Monday 7th Sep on page 3 the article entitled “County answers plea to help migrants” followed on page 5 an article entitled “Serious fears over homeless situation”. In Tuesday’s paper the headline says “Hospitals in Cash Chaos” and then on page 10 “fresh budget cuts would lead to dramatic and dangerous variations in police services.”
Whilst no one could disagree with the severity of the problem the fact remains that we, in this county, like many others across the country face shortages in many departments from education to National Health, including the armed services and emergency services (imperative to our internal security) mostly due to the lack of funding. Surely we should get our own house in order first and help our own unfortunates with housing and in some cases just somewhere to get a hot meal and clean clothes.
The Government says that it will divert some overseas aid funding to help pay for this, it would only be there for one year and then the councils would be left to pick up the bill. With all the austerity faced by everyone at this time I would love someone to come up with a serious answer to the question “who is going to pay for all this”. Not only would this leave serious holes in budgets but would lead to further cuts to day to day services to fund this.
We, as a country are doing our bit and sending aid overseas and we do welcome those that arrive in states of distress for whatever reason but we must be realistic in the knowledge that we are a small crowded country with housing shortages and the infrastructure that goes with this. We are not able to support ourselves let alone a “let them in” policy.
M FORD
Worcester

Our reputation is at stake in migrant crisis
SIR – England has a proud history of accepting persecuted peoples. It would a tragedy if our reputation as a caring country is tarnished by the actions of our government
Too many people are fleeing persecution and war into the hands of traffickers, dangerous paths and death. 
It is our moral duty to help those in need, especially when they are seeking a safer and better life in Europe. We have the space and the money to let more refugees into our nation and give them a safe place to call home. 
There is a global refugee crisis. The UK is not offering proportional asylum in comparison with European counterparts. We can’t allow refugees who have risked their lives to escape horrendous conflict and violence to be left living in dire, unsafe and inhumane conditions in Europe. We must help.
RON LAYTON
Kidderminster

How many will you take into your house?
SIR – Here is my question to political experts like editorial Worcester News (September 14 or 15).
Why is it that right wing Conservative can win general elections but left wing Labour cannot?
The truth is right wing Margaret Thatcher’s Tories would have lost in 1983. They were miles behind in opinion polls in 1981. It was only Falklands war April May 1982 that saved Tories from a heavy defeat. It had nothing to do with Michael Foot being unpopular. He and Tony Benn real Labour men and Tory Enock Powell had superb brilliant political brains far superior to other politicians who knew it.
Britain is vastly over populated small country. So my second question is to all refugee lovers. When they arrive here how many are you taking to live in your house?
K HEMMING 
Worcester

Isn’t a home a Briton’s right too?
SIR – The expected arrival of Syrian refugees will put even more pressure on our struggling public services.
Long waiting lists for housing means many British families are homeless. Isn’t a home here a Briton’s right anymore?
P WINTERS 
Worcester

Wealthy Middle East should do their bit
SIR – Locally tax payers are still funding long term jobless migrants at the city homeless hostel, so where exactly would Syrian refugees be housed and employed?
Globally, there are wealthy, spacious middle east countries that could have given sanctuary to these refugees long ago, thus avoiding the tragedy of large numbers drowning.
Realistically this country does not have the room or resources for thousands more.
MRS C EDWARDS
Worcester

City’s former mayor has the right idea
SIR – Our former mayor, Alan Amos, has been castigated by Amnesty International campaigners for ‘depicting desperate people like animals’.
His comments were perfectly appropriate and inoffensive.
MRS B PHILLIPS 
Worcester

Where would we have gone?
SIR – To where could we have fled during war torn Britain?
MRS JEAN HARRIS
Worcester