EU's refusal to fund border walls against illegal migrants is a mistake as it will only lead to another battle within the bloc -- RT Op-ed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Earlier this month, the interior ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia, wrote to the European Commission asking for funds to be released for the erecting of border walls.
50% : The EU, striving to portray itself as a paragon of liberalism, has refused to finance the erection of border walls to prevent illegal immigration, which will further increase tensions with the bloc's disgruntled members.
48% : But this is what it will do if it refuses to fund border walls.
45% : I suspect the reason the EU is refusing to pay for the erection of the walls is that it wants to portray itself as a paragon of virtuous liberalism, and being in the business of funding border walls would put a serious dent in that image.
40% : Yet their calls fell on deaf ears last week when von der Leyen told them that EU funds would not be used to build border walls.
38% : They are increasingly concerned that following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the bloc will suffer a repeat of the migrant crisis of 2015, when an estimated 1.3 million migrants claimed asylum on the continent.
27% : Since then, there has been pandemonium on the southern border, with the Border Patrol making about 1.66 million arrests of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally in the 2021 fiscal year.

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