I just have empathy

Don't, this behaviour is one of the many reasons of why we are in our current situation. How can you even have sympathy for these people when we are on our way to be genocided. These parasites gloat at the idea of conquering our homelands. They steal, they kill, they commit rape on industrial scale, they live off on the backs of europeans like parasites and yet there's people that think that these creatures are somehow victims.

as they have little or no connection to their country of origin

His grandparents didn't have connection to Ireland and yet they moved there. Do not have any sympathy for the invader. They will live confortably surrounded by their own people in their own homelands. We do not owe them nothing.