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Most of the wave of migrants flooding into Europe are not from Syria and most are males of fighting age, according to recent reports.

Of the 213,00 arrivals logged by the European Union in April, May and June, only 44,000 were fleeing the war in Syria, the UK’s Daily Mail reported.

“This exposes the lie peddled in some quarters that vast numbers of those reaching Europe are from Syria,” said UK Tory Member of Parliament David Davies. “Most people who are escaping the war will go to camps in Lebanon or Jordan. Many of those who have opted to risk their lives to come to Europe have done so for economic reasons.”

Sir Bill Cash, a fellow Tory, said: “These figures make extremely disturbing reading. The whole argument has been made that this influx is all real refugees from Syria whereas this adds to the substantial evidence that there are a large number of economic migrants who are aiming for a better life.”

Analysts have also pointed out that most of the “refugees” are healthy males and of fighting age. Most of the “refugees” are demanding freedom to travel from Hungary and Croatia and other less well-off nations to Germany. One observer pointed out that if you “look closely at the photo, and indeed many others…tell me where are the women ‘refugees’, or the child ‘refugees’ and the old ‘refugees’ and the infirm ‘refugees?’ ”

Eurostat reported that the number of Afghans lodging asylum claims rose from 6,300 to 27,000 and another 17,700 claims were made by Albanians, whose country is at peace.

Over half a million migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, 156,000 in August alone. Most do not claim asylum as soon as they reach Europe’s shores, however, as they move forward to the wealthier northern states.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel flast month declared that any Syrian who reached the country could claim asylum. When the numbers became uncontrollable Berlin shut its borders, throwing Austria, Hungary and other EU countries into turmoil.

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