Under the Refugee Convention of 1951, I don't think there is any such thing. Fear of persecution or death in war is sufficient reason to flee to the first safe country - and, by any means.
Nowadays, such is the scale of OUR wars and the vast sale of our UK manufactured weapons which get used throughout the world to kill and maim, it is hardly fair for the first safe country to take the lot.
Those we have turned into refugees or, to begin with those seeking asylum or safety from us lot of renegades, need to be fairly taken in by all the Judeo-Christian nations. After all, these nations are the most responsible for the horrors being fled from.
I heard on Radio 4, many years ago, that the EU has come up with a formula based on numbers already taken, area of habitable land available and other criteria. The desperate who are fleeing need to be shared out as fairly as possible amongst us all. Thus, safe and legal routes are needed. And, us entitled lot, wanting the lot and ever more from ever less, need to be less demanding of ever increasing economic growth and wealth just for ourselves.
In addition, of course, we in the West are the most responsible for Climate discomfort, too. By virtue of our prodigious burning of finite fossil fuels which give us our wealth and high standard of living but, the consequences of which we are now seeing.
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