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A lot has happened in Europe on this but I haven’t seen any threads on it for a while but plenty of duplicate threads on the same few American political stories.
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This crisis is essentially the straw that broke the camel’s back. The camel in this case being the EU which has long been bedeviled with sovereign debt and banking issues both public and private.
The divisions were already there, the dissatisfaction with the EU was already there albeit at a low level, the problems have been there all along. Some date from the beginning of the euro. All the migrant crisis has done is to expose deep cracks that have long been papered over. Italy, Hungary, et al are now refusing Brussels over the migrants. With what will Brussels enforce its dictates? That’s the next question.
The divisions were already there, the dissatisfaction with the EU was already there albeit at a low level, the problems have been there all along. Some date from the beginning of the euro. All the migrant crisis has done is to expose deep cracks that have long been papered over. Italy, Hungary, et al are now refusing Brussels over the migrants. With what will Brussels enforce its dictates? That’s the next question.
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It may be too late to undue the problems that Merkel and friends have perpetuated.
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Agreed. Hopefully someone will convey this to our USA Southern border protestors bent on abolishing ICE. I do think Merkel is quite close to falling over the migrant crisis and then what happens to the EU. (and what does the Pope/RCC have to say about all this at that point)
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Nigel Farage on Europe’s migrant crisis, Angela Merkel and Brexit:
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And not just Europe.
Consider Colombia South America (from MARCH 2, 2018) . . . .
Consider Colombia South America (from MARCH 2, 2018) . . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...torn-country-en-masse/?utm_term=.4fdf413d62a4Nowhere is the crisis more acute than here in Colombia, where
3,000 troops are fanning out across the 1,400-mile border to
contain an influx of Venezuelans fleeing a collapsing economy and an increasingly repressive socialist regime. Roughly 250,000 Venezuelan migrants have surged into Colombia since August, with 3,000 a day still arriving.
The sheer numbers have led to a backlash in Colombian cities and towns, prompting the national government last month to suspend the issuance of temporary visas for Venezuelans. Colombian authorities are now
launching operations in which dozens of
Venezuelans a day are captured and expelled.
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‘Migration Is Not a Fundamental Human Right’ – Breitbart Interviews Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó
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The Catholic church is being used as a pawn in a well-orchestrated plan to radically alter the Christian identity of European nations through mass migration, said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in a bombshell interview last week.
Schneider, who serves as auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, told the Italian daily Il Giornale that the current migrant crisis “represents a plan orchestrated and prepared for a long time by international powers to radically alter the Christian and national identity of the peoples of Europe.”
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The bishop said he would applaud the government of any European nation that “tries to accentuate its own sovereignty and its historical, cultural, and Christian identity in the face of the totalitarianism of a sort of new Soviet Union, which today is called the European Union and has an unmistakably Masonic ideology.”
Schneider’s words were especially poignant given his background, having been born in the Soviet Union in 1961, the child of ethnic German Catholics whom Joseph Stalin sent to gulags after the Second World War.
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Schneider, who serves as auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, told the Italian daily Il Giornale that the current migrant crisis “represents a plan orchestrated and prepared for a long time by international powers to radically alter the Christian and national identity of the peoples of Europe.”
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The bishop said he would applaud the government of any European nation that “tries to accentuate its own sovereignty and its historical, cultural, and Christian identity in the face of the totalitarianism of a sort of new Soviet Union, which today is called the European Union and has an unmistakably Masonic ideology.”
Schneider’s words were especially poignant given his background, having been born in the Soviet Union in 1961, the child of ethnic German Catholics whom Joseph Stalin sent to gulags after the Second World War.
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Athanasius… interesting, possibly prophetic?, choice of name!
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No, they can rescue and return them to their port of departure.
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Supporting link please, that these economic migrants are being killed in the port cities.
They are dying from attempting the water journey though, in high numbers.
They are dying from attempting the water journey though, in high numbers.
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These migrants are travelling to the port cities in the first place to get on boats. If these port cities are dangerous to the point of their life being in danger then they shouldn’t choose to go there and western liberals shouldn’t enticed them there with their false compassion p.c. rhetoric.Supporting link please, that these economic migrants are being killed in the port cities.
They are dying from attempting the journey though, in high numbers.
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I think 5-10% of the illegal migrants to Italy qualify as refugees, which means >90% are economic migrants.
I’m also fairly certain there are protected refugee camps on the other side of the water, where the UN provides shelter, food, and medical care. They can apply for refugee status in these camps.
You seem to be advocating that your navy work as a sort of free coyote service for these illegal immigrants.
I’m also fairly certain there are protected refugee camps on the other side of the water, where the UN provides shelter, food, and medical care. They can apply for refugee status in these camps.
You seem to be advocating that your navy work as a sort of free coyote service for these illegal immigrants.
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So you understood my question, but evaded answering it.
You seem to be advocating that your navy work as a sort of free taxi service for these illegal immigrants
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Europe’s problems with criminal trafficking gangs and illegal immigration are getting worse, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned, just days after the United Nations (UN) claimed that boat arrivals were “necessary” for the continent.
Pointing to a sharp rise in the number of attempted crossings from Africa along with the emergence of increasingly sophisticated ways of trafficking people across borders within the EU, the NCA revealed authorities in Europe are struggling to deal with smuggling gangs and immigration-related crime.
Criminal networks are making profits of up to £6 billion a year from charging would-be migrants, the majority of whom are from Africa, said Tom Dowdall, the agency’s deputy director of organised immigration crime.
According to the Daily Mail, the crime agency chief reported that attempted crossings to Spain and Italy have risen 75 per cent from last year while the Italian government’s crackdown on NGO boats has resulted in a “bottleneck” of 700,000 migrants currently in Libya who are waiting to get to Europe.
In picking people up from so close to the Libyan border and ferrying them directly to EU ports, open borders NGOs have been ‘inadvertently’ assisting the work of criminal traffickers, the NCA’s Chris Hogben warned.
“They make it easier for the crime groups who now send a boat with not enough fuel on purpose as they know they will be picked up,” he said.
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Pointing to a sharp rise in the number of attempted crossings from Africa along with the emergence of increasingly sophisticated ways of trafficking people across borders within the EU, the NCA revealed authorities in Europe are struggling to deal with smuggling gangs and immigration-related crime.
Criminal networks are making profits of up to £6 billion a year from charging would-be migrants, the majority of whom are from Africa, said Tom Dowdall, the agency’s deputy director of organised immigration crime.
According to the Daily Mail, the crime agency chief reported that attempted crossings to Spain and Italy have risen 75 per cent from last year while the Italian government’s crackdown on NGO boats has resulted in a “bottleneck” of 700,000 migrants currently in Libya who are waiting to get to Europe.
In picking people up from so close to the Libyan border and ferrying them directly to EU ports, open borders NGOs have been ‘inadvertently’ assisting the work of criminal traffickers, the NCA’s Chris Hogben warned.
“They make it easier for the crime groups who now send a boat with not enough fuel on purpose as they know they will be picked up,” he said.
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