There is a very disappointing level of xenophobic rhetoric on this thread plus a dose of NIMBYism - is it because most of the refugees are not white or Christian?
I suspect that the attitude would be very different if it was Ukrainians being housed there.
Yes, I know single males mostly stayed to fight but that was because they had an organised military unlike those fleeing from Syria, Afghanistan, Ethiopia etc.
If your choices were to stay at home and die from starvation or thirst or be randomly tortured and shot - wouldn't you risk everything to get away to a safe country, including using what money you could beg steal or borrow to pay people traffickers to get you there?
Perhaps a little empathy would go a long way when formulating immigration policies - something Thickie Patel clearly doesn't have.