There are probably billions of hard-luck stories on planet earth, and if America increasingly becomes seen as the world’s welfare office, the demands for admittance will never end. It seems that way already, for example when thousands of Africans are coming here to steal a better life rather than closer-to-them Europe.
Below, Trump advisor Stephen Miller is a popular target for immigration maximalists in the press.
There’s apparently no net reduction in aliens contemplated, just a category readjustment: the Times article notes that “because of a recent surge of asylum seekers at the southwestern border, there was less of a need for the United States to accept refugees from abroad.”
A real reduction in the rescue project would be a plus for the world. The refugee/asylum complex in fact does little to reduce the total amount of suffering on a planet with over 7.7 billion residents, while if more people stayed home and fought for reform, some genuine progress might be made.
Much of official Washington sees no problem with surrendering sovereignty in order to be the planet’s free rescue service. In one example, Senator Rubio suggested recently that the estimated 60,000 Bahamians living in the US be allowed to bring their relatives here. Hurricane Dorian was devastating, no question, but the Bahamas was formerly a British colony until it became a member of the Commonwealth in 1973; it has no political or historical connection to the US at all. There is no reason why we should rescue a substantial portion of its population of over 390,000 persons.
The Times article was reprinted in the link following:
]]>Trump Administration Considers a Drastic Cut in Refugees Allowed to Enter U.S., New York Times, September 6, 2019
WASHINGTON — The White House is considering a plan that would keep most refugees who are fleeing war, persecution and famine out of the United States, significantly cutting back a decades-old program, according to current and former administration officials.
One option that top officials are weighing would cut refugee admissions by half or more, to 10,000 to 15,000 people, but reserve most of those spots for people from a few countries or from groups with special status, such as Iraqis and Afghans who work alongside American troops, diplomats and intelligence operatives abroad. Another option, proposed by a top administration official, would reduce refugee admissions to zero, while leaving the president with the ability to admit some in an emergency.
Both options would all but end the United States’ status as a leader in accepting refugees from around the world.
The issue is expected to come to a head on Tuesday, when White House officials plan to convene a high-level meeting to discuss the annual number of refugee admissions for the coming year, as determined by President Trump.
“At a time when the number of refugees is at the highest level in recorded history, the United States has abandoned world leadership in resettling vulnerable people in need of protection,” said Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International. “The result is a world that is less compassionate and less able to deal with future humanitarian challenges.”
For two years, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s top immigration adviser, has used his considerable influence in the West Wing to reduce the refugee ceiling to its lowest levels in history, capping the program at 30,000 this year. That is a more than 70 percent cut from its level when President Barack Obama left office.
The move has been part of Mr. Trump’s broader effort to reduce the number of documented and undocumented immigrants entering the United States, including numerous restrictions on asylum seekers, who, like refugees, are fleeing persecution but cross into the United States over the border with Mexico or Canada.
Now, Mr. Miller and allies from the White House whom he placed at the Departments of State and Homeland Security are pushing aggressively to shrink the program even further, according to one senior official involved in the discussions and several former officials briefed on them, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the private deliberations.
White House officials did not respond to a request for comment.
John Zadrozny, a top official at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, made the argument for simply lowering the ceiling to zero, a stance that was first reported by Politico. Others have suggested providing “carveouts” for certain countries or populations, such as the Iraqis and Afghans, whose work on behalf of the American government put both them and their families at risk, making them eligible for special status to come to the United States through the refugee program. (Continues)
The unlucky (or foolish) community is Portland, Maine, population 67,000, and it unwisely got a reputation as being kindly toward foreigners looking for a handout, and so now it is deluged with them.
There was a detailed article in the Portland Press Herald a couple days before Christmas, Asylum seekers travel to Portland in droves, overwhelming city services.
That story may have inspired a similar piece in the Wall Street Journal that appeared more recently, reprinted on the Geller Report:
]]>Maine’s Largest City Strains Under Asylum-Seeker Influx, By Jennifer Levitz | The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2019
Portland, long welcoming to immigrants, is running out of shelter space, funds
PORTLAND, Maine — This community has long offered a generous hand to immigrants.
But Maine’s largest city, population about 67,000, is now struggling with an influx of asylum seekers, to the point where a local official is alerting shelters in other parts of the country to discourage people from heading here.
“The word is out there that our community is open to that population and has some assistance programs,” said David MacLean, administrator of Portland’s Social Services Division. “Our local resources are not able to keep up.”
Asylum seekers, who are primarily from African countries, now make up 90% of the people living in Portland’s city-run family shelter and overflow shelter, where new arrivals sleep on mats. A city fund that assists with necessities is dwindling fast, and pro-bono lawyers are overwhelmed with cases, Mr. MacLean said.
Portland’s strain comes as the number of asylum requests, in which people ask to be allowed to stay in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons, has ballooned. That is contributing to the well-publicized bottleneck at the Southwest border and the political clash over it.
Portland’s challenge is expected to drive new debate around immigrant assistance in the state, where Democrats recently gained control of the legislature and the governor’s seat.
[. . .]
A 40-year-old asylum seeker, who recently came to the bare-bones overflow shelter, said he had worked for an oil company in Angola. He believed he was in danger because he voiced his views about government corruption and traveled to the U.S. on a visa with his three children and wife, a social worker, he said. He planned to seek asylum and had heard Portland was safe.
“I hear they help people,” he said.
In fact, Trudeau responded to President Trump’s limited immigration ban of last [...]]]>
In fact, Trudeau responded to President Trump’s limited immigration ban of last January by tweeting “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.”
The Washington Post front-paged a chilly photo on Saturday to show the frozen wastes of Canada that fleeing aliens must face — brr!
The Post frets that the illegal aliens will turn into icicles in the snow — ignoring the fact that plenty were smart to enough to break into Canada during the warmer months preceding December. But any reasonable discussion would spoil the sob story!
The Post article was reprinted on another site, so click away, non-subscribers:
]]>The perilous path to Canada for migrants shoves local Minn. officials onto front lines of debate, Inforum.com, December 15, 2017
NOYES, Minn. – Chad Cosley tracks them as if they were deer.
He looks for footprints and frequently checks his network of trail cameras, which had been documenting wildlife along the U.S.-Canada border but now also capture would-be refugees fleeing the United States under President Donald Trump.
“I was up there hunting just on November 4, and we had fresh snow,” said Cosley, 45, who owns a parcel delivery service. “The following morning, we had four sets of footprints walking all the way up to the border with Canada, and there was a glove laying there on the ground – brand new, with perfume on it – so it was definitely a gal.”
Since the start of the year, more than 1,000 people have made similar journeys through this tiny community in far northwestern Minnesota in an attempt to enter Canada by avoiding official border crossings, part of a nationwide surge as Trump advances his campaign pledge to make life uninviting for undocumented immigrants and some aspiring refugees. The exodus, also playing out in border towns in the Northeast that lead to Quebec and Ontario, is rattling local officials on both sides of the border who are now angry about being shoved onto the front lines of America’s divisive immigration debate.
A Ghanaian woman’s body was found in a ditch near this small Minnesota town in May. She was an asylum seeker who succumbed to hypothermia while trying to cross the border. Residents fear there will be calamities in coming months as travelers encounter winter here, when a frigid northwestern wind scours barren fields separating Minnesota from Canada’s Manitoba province, making the traverse through blizzards and across frozen swamps a harrowing and life-threatening trip.
The concern has intensified, with county officials publicly calling on the Trump administration and Canada to waive a policy that prevents would-be refugees from passing through official border crossings. That plea has been met with silence.
Although rural Minnesota overwhelmingly supported Trump in last year’s election, some residents are troubled by his hard-line immigration policies, given the impact on their towns.
“For us, it’s a shocker to see these people wandering around,” said Leroy Clow, 73, a retired farmer and electrician. “It’s nice-dressed families – like they could be your neighbor – but they are scared and don’t know what else to do.”
According to the Canadian government, 9,335 people made asylum claims at land ports of entry between January and October, including those picked up after crossing the border from the United States at unauthorized locations. That is more than double the average of annual claims made from 2011 through 2016.
Counting asylum requests at airports, marine terminals and immigration offices, the Canadian government processed more than 41,000 applications this year through Oct. 31, nearly double the total processed in all of 2016.
(Continues)
On Wednesday, the Times dedicated a big chunk of its above-the-fold real estate to picturing an Afghan family who experienced Hungary’s policy of detaining Muslim foreigners rather [...]]]>
On Wednesday, the Times dedicated a big chunk of its above-the-fold real estate to picturing an Afghan family who experienced Hungary’s policy of detaining Muslim foreigners rather than welcoming Europe’s historic enemy.
Meanwhile in contrast, welcoming western Europe is suffering from worsening crime and conflict caused by the newbie Muslims’ misogynous culture and supremacist religious belief of world conquest for allah. Women’s safety in public has rapidly tanked in areas of high diversity, and going out after dark is an activity many women will not dare.
Eastern Europeans are more sensible regarding Islam since their ancestors lived under the brutal Ottoman rule. Present-day leaders like Viktor Orban have not forgotten the past where their European forebears lived under oppressive second-class status according to Islamic law.
If Hungary is indeed “hostile to migrants” as the Times says, that opposition has a deep historical cause of war and oppression.
But even as the Times criticizes “authoritarian” Orban, it admits “the rest of Europe is coming around to his approach.” Familiarity breeds contempt — particularly when the subject is barbarian Islam!
]]>Already Unwelcoming, Hungary Now Detains Asylum Seekers, New York Times, April 18, 2017
HORGOS, Serbia — Double rows of razor-wire fences. High-tech watch towers equipped with search lights, motion sensors, cameras and loudspeakers. Hungary’s border with Serbia, specially fortified in the last two years to keep out migrants and refugees, is anything but a welcome mat.
Now, add to those deterrents detention camps — small container villages surrounded by razor wire, with a tiny playground for children.
Hungary, which already had one of the toughest immigration policies in the European Union, last month rolled out a draconian new asylum procedure that will reduce applicants to a trickle — 10 people a day — and essentially put them in prison camps for months while their cases are decided. Even after that, if the recent past holds true, more than 90 percent are likely to be rejected.
By May, several hundred asylum seekers already in Hungary may also be relocated to the detention camps, evoking ugly and unavoidable echoes of rounding up Jews, Roma and others during World War II.
But if Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, provoked a loud outcry from his European peers by slapping up a razor-wire border fence two years ago as hundreds of thousands of migrants flooded into Europe, this time the condemnation, at least from his political peers, is more muted.
It is a measure of just how much the winds have shifted in his favor and against asylum seekers in Europe as nationalist, populist, far-right movements present a potent threat in a year filled with important elections, next in France and Germany.
If anything these days, Mr. Orban feels a sense of vindication and insists that the rest of Europe is coming around to his approach. He may be right.
Vast crowds of migrants, like those in the chaotic scenes at Hungary’s border with Serbia in 2015, are a thing of the past.
Frontex, the European Union’s external border control agency, has stepped up boat patrols in the Mediterranean to choke off the flow of migrants, particularly from Turkey to Greece.
The Greek authorities are holding thousands of migrants who crossed last year at camps on Greek islands, under sometimes difficult conditions, while their asylum applications are processed.
All of these measures have effectively squelched much of the traffic along the so-called Balkan route used by an estimated 764,000 migrants to enter Europe in 2015. In the first two months of this year, only 2,448 people tried to cross illegally using the same route, Frontex said.
“The Balkan route is basically closed,” said Erno Simon, a spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Budapest.
If that message has not already been received, Hungary’s new policies are intended to make it crystal clear. . .
The fact that more than 100K Centrals have arrived here illegally in recent years is alarming enough: they are straining schools and local budgets wherever they alight en masse. But the many who are minors without parents are a recipe for gang formation, particularly when the need for unskilled labor is shrinking enormously. Interestingly, the excuse du jour for asylum whiners is that gangs at home are pestering them to join, but then they end up in gang towns like Oakland.
Did any American vote for this country to be the deluxe flophouse of the world?
]]>Wanted: Mayan indigenous language interpreters, Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2016
The day Vinicio Nicolas found out whether he would be allowed to stay in the United States, and hopefully far from the gang trying to recruit him in Guatemala, he brought along an interpreter.
With the stakes so high, he wanted someone who spoke his native tongue. He had arrived in the U.S. just eight months before, and his English wasn’t good. But neither was his Spanish.
The language the 15-year-old needed an interpreter to wrestle with — for the sake of his future — was an ancient Mayan one called Q’anjob’al, or Kanjobal.
Successive waves in recent years of more than 100,000 immigrants from Central America — many of them boys and girls who came without their parents — have created a shortage of people who can translate Mayan languages, especially K’iché (Quiché) and Mam. This is an especially acute need for arrivals from Guatemala, which is home to more than two dozen indigenous languages, but also from countries such as Honduras.
Before entering an asylum office in Anaheim, interpreter Aldo Waykam asked Vinicio how he was feeling: “Tzet x’i a kul?”
“Watx,” the teenager replied. Good.
Spoken by almost 80,000 people in mostly rural municipalities in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Kanjobal is common in places like Santa Eulalia — where Vinicio grew up — but rare everywhere else.
Mam, a Mayan language spoken by more than 500,000 people in Guatemala, ranked ninth in the top 10 languages spoken in U.S. immigration court last fiscal year. Quiché ranked 11th. Both surpassed French, according to the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Five years ago, Quiché and Mam didn’t even break the top 25 languages spoken in immigration court.
The shortage of interpreters is leading to a host of issues. Often, judges delay immigration hearings until one is found. At times, asylum seekers are deported even if they have a strong case because a qualified interpreter cannot be found in time. And unlike in immigration court, interpreters aren’t provided for free during asylum hearings.
The interpreter shortage is exacerbated by a lack of Mayan-language interpreter courses, said Naomi Adelson, a Spanish-English court interpreter and coordinator of the Mayan-languages interpreter program at San Francisco nonprofit Asociacion Mayab.
Oakland is home to one of the largest concentrations of Mam speakers in the nation.
“I’m very concerned about meeting the demand, especially since more are coming,” Adelson said. “The demand for Mam has just gone off the charts.”
Vinicio’s case was Waykam’s second of the week. If he wasn’t already employed managing several shops and restaurants in the L.A. area, Waykam said, he could probably do interpreting full time.
Vinicio and his brothers, who live in Compton, heard Waykam on a Kanjobal radio station that streams online and hired him on the spot. Waykam helped translate Vinicio’s story to the asylum officer.
Vinicio was 14 years old when the gang recruiters came looking for him outside his school. They offered him drugs, a knife and even a gun.
“I’m Christian,” he told them. “I just want to go to school. I don’t want to sell drugs.”
But they wouldn’t give up, Vinicio said. They told him they would kill his entire family if he didn’t join.
One night, they came looking for him, and he escaped through the back door. He said he slept the night in the wooded mountains near his village before catching a bus to Guatemala City the next day.
He couldn’t stay in the nation’s capital because the gang has a network there, Vinicio said.
Instead, he borrowed $3,000 from an aunt and made his way to the United States. He walked into a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Arizona, asking for asylum.
Policarpo Chaj of Maya Vision, which serves indigenous Guatemalans in the Los Angeles area, said he’s fielded an increasing number of requests for interpreters.
Chaj, a Quiché interpreter, used to get one or two calls a year for interpreter services. Now, he said, he gets about 10 calls a month.
“We can’t meet the demand,” said Chaj, of Alhambra. His organization has 17 interpreters in six Mayan languages.
Many of the services are for immigration court, asylum hearings and Superior Court. But interpreters are also used in hospitals and schools, he said.
Some immigrants are unaware of their right to an interpreter in immigration court and settle for a Spanish interpreter who can’t accurately convey the client’s case for staying.
Mariano Garcia Matias, a 52-year-old Mam interpreter who lives in Los Angeles, travels the nation offering his services. Sometimes he’s so busy, Matias said, that he has to turn away clients.
Like most Mayan language interpreters, Matias does what’s called “relay interpreting.” That means another interpreter provides the English-to-Spanish translation while Matias translates from Spanish to Mam.
Although he speaks English reasonably well, he said he doesn’t feel comfortable enough to provide direct English-to-Mam interpretation.
“It has to be a perfect translation, and we’re talking about someone’s life on the line, including that person’s family,” he said.
Matias is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but others who could do translation are in the country illegally and don’t want to get near immigration court. At times, the interpreter is working from a remote spot in Guatemala with spotty phone service.
A good interpreter is key, said Eryk Escobar, a supervising attorney for the program that represents unaccompanied children at the Central American Resource Center in L.A.
“If you don’t have an interpreter, it’s going to make a big difference at the end of the day,” he said.
He once had a client who insisted on explaining his case in Spanish — instead of Quiché — out of pride.
The two had a tough time communicating, and the client’s case for immigration relief ended up looking weak, Escobar said.
“Once I got the interpreter in our meetings it … was a slam-dunk case,” he said.
Before walking up to the window at the asylum office waiting room, Vinicio said he was optimistic about being allowed to stay. Waykam wasn’t so sure. Only a tiny percentage of cases are approved.
Minutes later, the two walked to a counter with a glass partition. An immigration official informed Waykam of the outcome of Vinicio’s case.
He delivered the news to the teenager in a language made more intimate by the distance from home and the small fraternity of people who could wield it to share both heartache and joy.
“Maj ak’lay a caso.”
You didn’t win your case.
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Most shocking is the metamorphosis of safe Sweden into the worst rape country on earth as of 2012. Mass immigration of young Muslim men will do that.
Back in 2005, Norwegian blogger Fjordman warned about the worsening violence against women: Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway – Authorities Look the Other Way. But as often happens, diversity-enthralled elites don’t want to hear any discouraging words about their liberal religion, and the Swedish media went along with the censorship of Muslim violence. Women’s safety was sacrificed as a result.
]]>“Hi, I’m Ingrid Carlqvist for the Gatestone Institute. Once upon a time there was a safe welfare state called Sweden. This beautiful part of Sweden that we call Skåne is where my forefathers lived as long back as i have been able to research: the beginning of the 18th century. Now Sweden has turned into Absurdistan — a country that has one of the highest number of reported rapes in the world, hundreds of so-called exclusion areas, more than 55 no-go zones where police and ambulances get stoned, and Sharia law is becoming more important than Swedish law.
Once upon a time people rarely locked their doors in this area; now this country is a night-watchman state. Each man is on his own. Last year 163,000 asylum-seekers came to Sweden and even though we have since then introduced border controls the prognosis is that somewhere between 70,000 and 140,000 will come this year to a country with a total population of 9.5 million.
In November last year I interviewed salesmen from several security companies. They all said that there is a really high demand for alarm systems right now. One of them said it is largely due to the turbulence we are seeing around the country. People have lost confidence in the state. The police will not come anymore.
One of the things that Swedes are most scared of is rape, even though it’s forbidden to keep statistics on the rapists’ ethnic background or religion, we know who is behind the near 1500 percent increase of rapes in Sweden. Almost every day we can read in the so-called alternative media about rapes against Swedish women and girls committed by asylum seekers or other migrants from the third world. Up until a few decades ago, no one had heard about gang rape. Now it happens every week.
This has of course been going on for many years but the Swedes have been so brainwashed by the government and the mainstream media that no one has protested about the rape on Sweden. For that has all changed. These days no one can escape the horrible realities.
Just a couple of miles from here is a little village that used to have 900 inhabitants, but last year the authorities placed 400 asylum seekers in that little village. That means that almost half of the total population is now people from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Syria. It’s really turned the whole village upside down. I have talked to people who live and work around there. At first they were happy to welcome people to their part of the world. They arranged lunches and Christmas celebrations and donated clothing to the migrants. Now many of the locals are afraid and confused. With tears in their eyes, they tell me how their friendly village has been totally transformed by these young aggressive male asylum seekers. The asylum seekers scream at the locals, call the women whores. They steal from the shops and don’t seem at all grateful or happy to be here.
Many wonder what these asylum-seekers expected when they arrived in Sweden. Daily Svenska Dagbladet interviewed Saleh from Iraq who complained, “We can’t sit here and wait for the decision on residence permit indefinitely… We sit at the asylum house all day long and do nothing. Our children have nothing to do, and there is no playground there. And the food that is served here is strange, it doesn’t look like the food we are used to.”
Saleh is not alone. Actually more people are going back to Iraq now than are coming here. This year 1,243 have applied for asylum and 1,366 have taken the application back. But that is just a drop in the ocean. The people here they wonder if peace will ever come back to this place.
This is Ingrid Carlqvist for the Gatestone Institute.”
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Merkel assured Germans that the government could handle the influx, but since the disastrous reality has become obvious, popularity for the scheme has been dropping precipitously.
The chaos is getting ugly. For example, German doctors refuse to visit the Calden refugee camp without a police escort to protect them from the hostile inhabitants. The camp experienced a battle a week ago where hundreds of Pakistanis and Albanians fought each other. An October 2 headline from RT notes Refugee camps may blow with violence, German police officials warn.
Below, German police were brought in to chill the violence when 400 aliens rioted recently in the Calden camp.
Recent polling showed Merkel has dropped 9 points in favorability over one month regarding her leadership in the illegal alien crisis.
Another sign of the policy failure was the Bundestag debate about restricting asylum laws to cope with the excessive multitudes.
It’s curious that Germans apparently think Middle Eastern Muslims would be acceptable as new workers, according to the article below, while there are plenty of unemployed Europeans in places like Spain (unemployment rate 22.2 percent in August). Surely the cultural stress in bringing in Spaniards, for example, as workers would be less than with Syrian Muslims.
]]>Majority of Germans worried about refugees, The Local (Germany), October 2, 2015
Increased numbers of refugees are giving Germans second thoughts about their support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcoming policies, with more than half now saying they are concerned about the new arrivals in the latest polling.
In the latest “Deutschlandtrend” survey commissioned by public broadcaster ARD, 51 percent of people said they were afraid because of the large numbers of refugees arriving compared with 47 percent saying they were unafraid.
The previous poll, just three weeks ago, put that same number at 38 percent.
The turn in the polls has been reflected in changing rhetoric from mainstream politicians, with Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel telling Der Spiegel on Friday that “we are quickly hitting the limits of our capabilities in Germany.”
While there was no legal limit to the number of asylum seekers Germany might host, Gabriel said, “there are practical limits to the capacity of local communities”.
Refugees hit Merkel popularity
Arrivals sped up following Merkel’s decision to allow Syrian refugees stuck in Hungary into Germany, rather than forcing them to remain in the first EU country where they set foot as the so-called Dublin regulations require.In September alone, 160,000 refugees were registered for the first time in Germany, although the actual number arriving is likely to be significantly larger.
The Chancellor’s approval rating sink nine points over the last month, to 54 percent.
Meanwhile support for the chief critic of her asylum policies from her own conservative camp, Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer, surged 11 points to 39 percent.
Less than half of respondents – 48 percent – said they were satisfied with Merkel’s government, down five points.
New workers needed to fill jobs
A majority of the people surveyed – 58 percent – continue to believe that refugees are needed to shore up the German labour market, which is struggling with a lack of skilled workers.That compared with 39 percent of people who thought that the number of refugees arriving was so large as to threaten Germany’s prosperity.
Pollsters surveyed 1001 eligible voters on September 28th and 29th by telephone.
Below, thousands of Africans have succeeded in reaching first-world Europe via the Mediterranean.
[...]]]>Below, thousands of Africans have succeeded in reaching first-world Europe via the Mediterranean.
Reporter William La Jeunesse details the procedures elsewhere:
]]>“Italy turns back many boats carrying illegal immigrants including minors from Albania and Africa. Those that make it are taken to camps some are returned home; others live on the street.
In Greece, illegal immigrants are kept in detention camps, children housed alongside adults. In 2012, 8000 Syrians sought asylum in Greece, only two were approved.
The EU installed a 20-mile barb-wire fence on the Turkish border with Bulgaria. It reduced immigration there from 2000 a month to 300.
France denies 90 percent of asylum requests. Unaccompanied children are typically turned back at the airport without so much as an interview. Unlike the US, France does not grant citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants.
About 3000 unaccompanied minors apply for asylum each year in the UK; on average 13 percent are approved.
In Australia, unaccompanied children are held in offshore detention centers for up to nine months.
Censors and infra-red cameras help secure Spanish islands in the Mediterranean. Processing centers there are overcrowded and unsanitary.”
How would authorities know with any accuracy how many are poised to launch their Camp-of-the-Saints-style boat brigade? The number 800,000 is code for [...]]]>
How would authorities know with any accuracy how many are poised to launch their Camp-of-the-Saints-style boat brigade? The number 800,000 is code for “Too many — please help!”
The problem is the policy, specifically Europe’s welcome to one and all with rescue boats picking up whoever needs assistance and nobody gets sent home. As a result, the Africans arrive with a well developed sense of entitlement and make demands accordingly.
Why wouldn’t half of Africa and the Middle East come get a first-world life with generous welfare benefits?
Moochers (including many hostile Muslims) would rather travel thousands of miles to feed at the European welfare office than work to fix their home societies, so they are bums twice over.
The RT report below emphasized Italy’s cry for help with the crisis, but still assumed that boaters need to be rescued.
Meanwhile, Australia is showing the proper response to seaborne invaders by turning them back to Indonesia, demonstrating that fleebags will not be received.
It’s not hard, just send the Africans back where they came from. When they learn Europe is not their free flophouse, they will cease coming.
The population of Africa is over a billion and that doesn’t count the Middle East with its unhappy millions. Europe needs to stop the invasion or it will be overwhelmed in a few years.
]]>Italy says 800,000 migrants poised to arrive, ANSAmed, April 29, 2014
Border police say reception system ‘already at breaking point’
ROME, APRIL 29 – At least 800,000 migrants are about to depart the North African coast for Europe, while the reception system in Italy – the first landing point for the vast majority of these – is already on the brink of collapse from tens of thousands of earlier arrivals, official said Tuesday.
“We no longer have a place to take them, and locals are overwhelmed by the constant arrival of foreigners,” Giovanni Pinto, head of the Immigration and Border Police agency, told a joint meeting of the foreign and defence committees in the Italian Senate.
As many as 25,000 migrants have landed on Italian shores to date this year, almost a ten-fold increase over the 2,500 reported during the same period in 2013 and nearing 2011’s record levels of 62,000 migrants, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said earlier this month.
That has stretched already-strained resources in Italy, which only emerged from its deepest recession since the Second World War late last year, to the breaking point, particularly as it comes after record-breaking levels of migration in 2013. Italy is appealing for international help in the face of the waves of newcomers fleeing their homelands in numbers that tend to increase in spring and summer months as sea conditions improve.
“Europe should know that Italy is a welcoming country, but we cannot accommodate everyone,” Alfano said in an interview Tuesday with Rai television morning chat show ‘Unomattina’.
He added that 200 human traffickers believed to be responsible for smuggling thousands across the sea to Italy in dangerous conditions have been arrested.
One day earlier, Premier Matteo Renzi vowed to request more assistance from the European Union and the United Nations on tackling undocumented immigration during a special meeting of his cabinet to consider emergency migrant issues.
Part of the problem, said Pinto, is that many migrants who land in Italy are fleeing failed governments in Libya, civil war in Syria, and hostilities in other parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
That means the Italian government has no corresponding authorities to turn to for help in returning the migrants. “We aren’t dealing with a government that can establish treaties,” said Pinto, refering to the case of Libya in particular. “We have no interlocutors…There’s no prime minister…there are no ministers,” he said.
He also praised the efforts of the Mare Nostrum program, which was set up to prevent deaths at sea following two migrant ship disasters in October 2013 in which as many as 400 people died. “Surely the operation Mare Nostrum has given excellent results,” said Pinto.
In contrast, some opposition politicians complain that Mare Nostrum only encourages migrants to risk their lives and cross the Mediterranean, often in rickety, overcrowded boats.
There are also concerns that it encourages human smuggling as well.
Northern League Secretary Matteo Salvini said last week that Italy must suspend these operations because they are too expensive – about 300,000 euros daily, he said – and represent an “invasion” of Italian shores.
Salvini, whose party has taken strong stances against immigration, called last month on allies across Europe to join the League in fighting “mass immigration” in the lead-up to May’s European Parliament elections.
In response to the rising levels of dangerous migration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that Italy must have more financial help.
The UNHCR has said that the Mediterranean is one of the busiest seas in the world, and urged European Union members to work together on solutions to the migrant situation, which is expected to worsen. (ANSAmed).
In passive Europe, a Camp of the Saints scenario is shaping up as the culturally weak societies there have been convinced by socialists [...]]]>
It’s spring in the northern hemisphere, so in many backward areas, young men are gathering en masse to head for first-world nations that offer generous welfare programs and jobs for the unskilled.
In passive Europe, a Camp of the Saints scenario is shaping up as the culturally weak societies there have been convinced by socialists that Europe is guilty of success and must therefore accept millions of the world’s unhappy poor as social justice payback.
A week ago, around 500 Africans breached the Melilla entrance to Spain (located on the coast of Morocco), a record number thus far. They were from Mali and Senegal, both of which are around 90 percent Muslim. Interestingly, the El Pais report following has an amazing rough video of hundreds of Africans running toward the border, beyond my embedding expertise unfortunately. Because of the oddball outposts of Europe on the African continent (i.e. Melilla and Ceuta), invasive young men can jog to the first world rather than hazard a leaky boat.
Group of 500 migrants crosses Melilla border in biggest fence jump to date, El Pais, March 18
Around 500 sub-Saharan immigrants succeeded in jumping the border fence separating the Spanish exclave of Melilla from Moroccan territory early Tuesday morning.
The massive run on the fence took place around 8am near Nano river, several sources confirmed. This is the largest jump to date.
A high-ranking official at the Spanish Interior Ministry called the event “very worrisome” and said it underscored “the severe migratory pressure on both autonomous cities,” a reference to Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s two exclaves in North Africa.
The undocumented migrants, who say they come from Mali and Senegal, immediately headed for the local temporary immigrant holding center (CETI) amid jubilant cries of “Bosa, bosa,” which witnesses said means “victory.” [. . .]
As a result of weakened resolve of Europeans plus the upheavals in the Middle East, the influx of demanding foreigners to the continent has reached a record level. What a surprise.
]]>Asylum seekers in Europe reach two-decade high, Reuters, March 24, 2014
Nearly half a million people sought asylum in Europe last year, the most in two decades, with the largest number coming from Syrians fleeing civil war, the European Union said on Monday.
In total, 434,160 people sought refuge in the EU’s 28 member states in 2013, according to Eurostat, the EU statistics office. That was an increase of nearly 30 percent from the 335,000 requests in 2012.
The European Union rejected 65 percent of the requests and granted refugee status to 15 percent of the asylum seekers. The remaining 20 percent got at least temporary permission to stay in Europe. Rejected applicants had a right to appeal.
Some 50,000 applicants from Syria accounted for the largest number, nearly 12 percent of the total. More than 140,000 people have been killed in the three-year-old conflict, which has grown increasingly sectarian as regional powers back either President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Shi’ite offshoot Alawite sect, or the mostly Sunni rebels.
Russia accounted for the second-largest number of claims, at 41,000, a 10 percent share.Afghanistan was third with 26,000 claims. Serbia, Pakistan, Kosovo, Somalia, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria and Iraq followed.
Eurostat said the total was the largest number since 1993, when the EU recorded more than 500,000 claims. Germany, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Italy got 70 percent of the applications.
Eurostat also noted it had changed its methodology in 2008; until then, countries provided data on a voluntary basis.