Category: Asylum seekers

Afghan migrant attempts to sail from Calais to the UK on makeshift raft

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More in our ‘invasion of Europe’ series…..

 

Afghan migrant built his raft at Calais encampment, vows to build another one!

 

A young man who will surely need some mental health counseling in whatever country eventually gets to keep him, was rescued by the Coast Guard after his bed-sheet raft drifted off course earlier this week.

The story from the UK Daily Mail begins with this (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’):

Coastguards told him he could have drowned and his friends think he is crazy.

But even though his attempt to cross the Channel on a flimsy raft ended in disaster, Afghan migrant Asif Hussainkhil is determined to try again.

After recovering from hypothermia brought on by his failed bid to reach Britain, he told the Mail: ‘I will keep trying because it is my destiny to get to England.’

The 33-year-old tried to cross the Channel on Monday with a raft made of six nailed-together bits of plank, with a bedsheet as a sail.

Later we learn that he left Afghanistan at age 19 and has lived in many countries since:

Since then he has travelled through nine countries, including Iran, Serbia and Switzerland, before moving to France to try and get to Britain. He is now living in a tent in Calais.

Be sure to go to The Mail and see the amazing photos of the mess these migrants have made of Calais.

Frankly I don’t get it!  The European Union has a law that says legitimate asylum seekers must ask for asylum in the first safe country they reach in Europe.  If they end up somewhere else, they are to be returned to that first country and have their claim processed there.  Our sailor-wannabe surely passed through other EU countries before Switzerland.

So, why is France, the European Union or the UN even tolerating this slum camp at Calais?

Each of the migrants should be interviewed and returned to where they entered Europe or DEPORTED to the Middle East or Africa if they haven’t a legitimate asylum claim.

If you have been putting off a vacation trip to Europe, go now, before it’s gone!

Go here for all of our previous posts on the ‘invasion of Europe.’

 

Sudanese refugee up a tree to demand “right” to stay in Germany

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This story is nearly a month old, so we presume she is out of her tree now, but couldn’t quickly find any news account of that.

From Russia Today (last month) Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’

A Sudanese asylum seeker has moved to the treetops in central Berlin after local authorities evicted her refugee camp. Police forbid residents bringing her food or water, but Napuli Langa vows to stay aloft till death in a fight for her dignity.

Wrapped in an anorak and a blanket, Langa, 25, has already spent three days on branches atop a tree in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, just walking distance from main tourist landmarks.

Hoping that weak and exhausted she will sooner or later jump down, police have spread out cushions on the ground. But Langa does not seem to be giving up.

“I am happy protesting for my rights and as long my energy can take me, I will stay here,” Langa shouted to RUPTLY’s crew under the tree.

She has vowed to expose what she says are the “colonial” methods Germany uses in treating refugees and asylum seekers from outside Europe and, particularly, Africa.

In fact, as we have reported many times, the German government is probably Europe’s most “welcoming” government toward refugees and asylum seekers.    See our archive on Germany, here.

The invasion of Europe continues….  See Afghan migrant and his sail boat, here.

Good news! Jordan’s new refugee camp is open; solution for the French?

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It has been all over the alerts this week.  The new state-of-the-art UN refugee camp is open!  Camp Azraq will house 130,000 Syrian refugees when it reaches capacity.

When I saw this news, the answer for how to stop the illegal migration of mostly Syrian Sunni’s into Europe (camping in Paris parks!) became apparent.  Send them to Azraq where they will live in their own cultural zone until the civil war is over.   Sweden should send its whiners there too!

If every illegal alien Syrian was immediately flown to Azraq you can be sure the Syrian migrant tide plaguing Europe would stop immediately. After all, the UN-built camp cost western countries $63 million dollars, might as well get some bang for the buck!

Below is a photo and caption that appears in a Canadian whine-fest op-ed about how Westerners are so mean to Syrians.  Is it meanness or just that some Westerners have wised-up to the pattern:  Muslims fighting among themselves, become “refugees,” we resettle them for their safety, we give them welfare, and they never go home.

A general view of the new Syrian refugee camp of Azraq, which stretches for 9 miles (15 kilometers), and lies 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the Syrian border in Jordan, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Jordan opens a third refugee camp in the middle of the desert for tens of thousands more Syrians expected to flee their country’s civil war, highlighting the staggering effect the refugee problem is having on Syria’s neighbors. The new, sprawling facility complete with solid caravans and a supermarket, is designed to accommodate up to 130,000 people and potentially become the world’s second largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh) Photograph by: Raad Adayleh , AP

Buffalo non-profit running out of federal/local $$$ may close its doors

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Not all supposed refugee resettlement agencies are in the orbit of the nine major federal contractors that monopolize refugee placement in America or they wouldn’t be running out of money.

Close-reading of this article tells us that Vive Inc. in Buffalo, NY is taking care of asylum seekers and other migrants who are in legal limbo.  They haven’t been contracted by the feds and therefore they can’t raise enough cash to stay in the black.

This is an important point:  there would be a smaller number of migrants arriving in the US if they had to depend on private charity and/or finding work.  Your tax dollars grease the skids of the migrant flow into the US.

From Buffalo News  (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’):

Vive Inc. Executive Director Angela Jordan-Mosely running out of money. Photo: http://www.buffalonews.com/life-arts/people-talk/people-talk-angela-jordan-mosely-20140330

The refugee resettlement organization Vive Inc. is contacting past and present supporters with an urgent plea for help. If financial support is not forthcoming, the message says, outlook is bleak. “We are facing the harsh reality of closing our doors,” the message states.

An email from Vive Executive Director Angela Jordan-Mosely this week describes the situation at the nonprofit as “desperate.” Vive celebrated 30 years of operation in March, but recent years have seen funding cuts by the county and federal government. The losses are compounded by delays in legal proceedings to get the immigrants Vive serves permanently settled.

“What used to take days now takes months or even years, leaving hundreds of refugees in limbo,” Jorden-Mosely writes.

The result is a significant increase in the length of time individuals and families stay with Vive at its Wyoming Avenue location and a need for the organization to reconsider how it can achieve its mission of helping international refugees build new lives.

Former Amherst Council Member Shelly Schratz, a Vive volunteer, said that the uncertain status makes it hard for the refugees to contribute to their own support.

“Many of these people want to work, but there are matters of transportation and language, and they don’t have a Social Security card yet,” Schratz said. “We have a business (Bing’s restaurant), but you can’t hire someone who isn’t legal yet.”

Schratz said that, in trying to get financial support, Vive may be hampered by misunderstandings about its clients. The refugees it serves arrived in the United States legally, often having received asylum or temporary residency while they work on permanent status in this country or Canada. Most live at Vive while their cases work through the legal system.

Asylum seekers, of course, have gotten into the US through various means—either as illegal aliens who came across our borders by land, sea or air, or came in on a visa of some sort and have over-stayed.  Once granted asylum they can work and all of the welfare goodies other ‘refugees’ get are available to them.   Others that Vive serves are aliens on Temporary Protected Status who are planning on staying no matter what.  These are not ‘refugees’ the US State Department has brought in to the US.

Vive Inc. got its start in illegal Sanctuary Movement

Check out Vive Inc’s history, here.  Originally called Vive La Casa, it sure looks like they got their start in the Sanctuary Movement in the early 1980’s  (at the same time the notorious CASA de Maryland got its start) where Leftwing churches helped illegal Central Americans, including Sandinistas, get into the US and hid them in their “sanctuaries.”   I guess Buffalo’s Casa didn’t get as firmly entrenched with the politicians who dole out the cashola as did CASA de Maryland.

Check out our many posts on multi-culty Buffalo here.

Syrians whine about life in Sweden

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Oh brother!   We have Sweden literally destroying itself with its wide open borders and these Syrian young men are whining about their miserable lives there.

One of Sweden’s Syrian refugees—how would you like some like him in your home town? A “young professional” for Casper or Gillette Wyoming perhaps? Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

From The Guardian—cold comfort indeed.  (Hat tip: ‘pungentpeppers’ who pretty much wrote this post!):

Salah Debas, 23 struggled to arrive in Sweden (smuggled in the luggage hold of a bus), but complains how unhappy he is in Sweden now that he’s there:

“I feel I am just throwing away another year of my life.“Here, on a farm-turned-residential-complex for asylum-seekers, Debas clearly struggles to adapt. “I feel like shit,” he says. “Life here is just pressure, pressure and more pressure.”

There are no jobs for Syrian young men:

The majority of those who make it [to Sweden] are young single men, whose main goal is to quickly find a job and send money to their families back in Syria. This massive movement of people has created a severe housing backlog, forcing Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish government’s employment agency (which also assists recent arrivals in finding accommodation and subsidises their rent) to allocate newcomers to remote and isolated villages in the north. Conditions here are tough and work hard to come by.

Big cultural differences between Europe and Syria. (Warning for Wyoming, you want “young professionals”? Don’t look to get them from Syria.):

Many of the young Syrians who arrive here are successful professionals – architects, academics and businessmen – who held a prominent place in Syrian society and, unlike economic migrants, would not have left their country if it wasn’t for the war. “They had a very good position in Syria and they want the same position here. But they will not get it,” explains Elias Kasgawa, a 47-year-old Syrian from Hassake who has lived in Sweden since 1970. Sweden and Syria are worlds apart in terms of food, weather, political systems, gender relationships and the way society is organised. “Syrians are raised in a more hierarchical way. You always have a leader figure, your parents, your relatives or your teacher,” continues Kasgawa, who lives with his family in Sweden and works as in hotel construction. “In Sweden, you don’t have many guidelines. You must develop yourself.”

Bleak outlook:

After an adventurous trip through Greece and Italy that lasted more than a month and cost him around €16,000, Giwara finally settled in Helsingborg, where he now shares a hostel with 10 other immigrants. “We have only one kitchen and one bathroom. Some of these guys have stayed in this place for 15 years,” he says. His face leaves no doubt that he fears the same fate.

‘Pungentpeppers’ directs us to a commenter at The Guardian who said this:

C’mon its not enough to simply give them a free wage, shelter, healthcare, education and citizenship. Sweden has to give them private bathrooms and kitchens in Stockholm and fulfill their career dreams.

Editor’ comment:  Here is what I don’t get about these men—why the h*** didn’t they just stay in Syria and fight for whichever side they believe in in their civil war?  Someone used a phrase to me the other day in regards to the State Department not holding hearings this year, and I shouldn’t really repeat it in light of my admonition to commenters about foul language.  But, this makes one want to swear—these men are “chickens***s!”

We have a huge archive on Sweden (click here).  My bet is on Sweden to be the first European country to crash from the immigrant invasion of Europe.  Others have their money riding on the UK or France.