Why are so many of the refugees who are apparently safe in places like Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Kenya clamouring to get to the West? The main reasons, of course, are economic, which supports the point made in my original comment. As for the biblical analogy, Joseph and Mary travelled to Bethlehem to participate in a census. Subsequently, the bible holds that they fled to Egypt to escape King Herod's purge of newborn males, although later, after Herod died and the risk diminished, returned to Judah. They didn't seek permanent refuge in Egypt and thus don't provide an analogy to those who today seek to get to the West. In any case, many view the biblical stories as a series of parables, akin to moral lessons rather than actual history, while some see the bible as essentially heavily edited propaganda that was intended to suit the political interests of the early Christian church and its leaders. Today, it's mainly fundamentalists who promote literalist interpretations of the bible.