Europe: Waves from the South
You could tell that the plan European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker announced on September 9 for distributing 160,000 refugees around the European Union was slapdash... Of course giving refuge is important. So is democratic accountability. Right now Europe’s politicians owe their citizens an explanation, not a scolding.
About half a million migrants—as best we can count—have arrived on European soil this year. No one has a clear idea of what to do with them. They are landing at the rate of 1,000 or 2,000 a day on the Greek island of Lesbos and rioting outside the Budapest train station. Hungary alone has stopped 172,000 of them. Last week Denmark sealed its border to trains from Germany, and Austria stopped rail traffic from the east...
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The first group are refugees fleeing the violence and destruction of the ISIS-controlled zones of Syria and Iraq, traveling overland on an artery that runs, generally, through Turkey, Greece, Serbia, and Hungary. They are mostly heading for three target countries: Germany, Sweden, and Britain. The first two have made public statements of welcome, German chancellor Angela Merkel even anticipating 800,000 migrants this year...
- The second group of migrants are Africans for whom the anarchy in Libya has suddenly opened a corridor from the most destitute and violent societies in the world to the (for now) richest and safest. These travelers tend to move by boat across the Mediterranean, making landfall in Italy or Greece and proceeding north, sometimes after having applied formally for asylum.
With regard to these first two groups, over three-quarters of asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, and Eritrea have their claims approved, and those whose claims are rejected are rarely sent back.
- The third group in the present wave are opportunists from all over the world—Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, you name it—who are following a well-established migrant route.
And it is this third group of economic migrants that is key... With guides and mafias charging somewhere around $2,000 a head, this is a billion-dollar business, and it could well run into the tens of billions if nothing is done to stop it.
Almost all European leaders hopelessly confuse the two phenomena—the humanitarian emergency in the ISIS “caliphate” and the huge economic migration...
Europe’s politicians ain’t seen nothing yet. They are trying to pass off a migration crisis as a humanitarian crisis. It may be on the verge of turning into a military crisis.
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Europe: astounding interactive video: The flow towards Europe
Video: State of Emergency: Rioting Migrants Chanting “Allahu Akbar” Trying to Break Through Hungarian Border, Police Fire Tear Gas, Pamela Gellar, September 16, 2015.
Refugee Resettlement Fact Sheet from Refugee Resettlement Watch - the premier information resource for forced resettlement of foreigners in American communities.
Hungary builds 100-mile razor-wire border to keep out migrants, DC Clothesline, September 12, 2015. Includes map of invasion.
Europe, still animated by the humanitarian values of its Christian civilization, is taking in the “refugees” despite Islamic State jihadists saying they are infiltrating and hiding among the “refugees”. Germany says it will take at least 500,000 asylum seekers per year. Finland is looking at increasing capital gains taxes to offset “higher immigration costs.” The EU has announced plans to impose a quota system aimed at settling 160,000 refugees. (ZeroHedge)
Meanwhile, the 5 richest Arab Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain — refuse to take in even one refugee, citing the risk of terrorism as their reason...