It usually comes down to this
versus
At the risk of offending refugees past, present and future anywhere in the world, why do some people choose to flee rather than fight back against invaders and/oppressors?
They'd rather test their luck surviving elsewhere than face certain death or suffering at home.
It is there path just as it is your path to be
who you are and no one else can choose it
for them. Its there job to be themselves.
Just be glad it is not yours.
If a symbolic death is all you can accomplish, what's the point?
They usually don't have the weapons or money to fight back.