Relocating the migrants would “lead down the road to hell!”
(Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis)
Invasion of Europe news….
This is an update of yesterday’s postabout Italy telling other EU countries that they needed to step-up and take in 50 each of the 450 African and Middle Eastern migrants rescued by two Frontex vessels over the weekend.
The next generation! “New Europeans” carried ashore in Siccily
So far now, five countries have agreed to take 50 each (mostly men): Germany, France, Malta, Spain and Portugal. So who will get the remaining 200?
I was telling a reporter just yesterday that perhaps one of Donald Trump’s greatest gifts to us is that, with his penchant for speaking his mind, he gives us permission to say what we believe in our hearts, but may fear saying.
So here he is in the UK speaking frankly to The Sun, as reported by The Hill:
Trump: Europe is ‘losing its culture’ because of immigration
President Trump is railing against what he described as the migration of “millions and millions of people” into Europe, declaring that the continent is “losing its culture” to refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa.
In an interview with the British tabloid The Sun published Thursday, Trump said that it is a “shame” that European leaders had allowed so many migrants to enter their countries’ borders.
“Allowing the immigration to take place in Europe is a shame,” the U.S. president told the tabloid, which his owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
I think it changed the fabric of Europe and, unless you act very quickly, it’s never going to be what it was and I don’t mean that in a positive way,” he continued.
Trump’s publicized comments came shortly after he arrived in the U.K. for a long-awaited trip on the heels of a tense set of meetings at the annual NATO summit in Brussels, where he delivered a blistering criticism of European allies and demanded that member nations pay more for defense.
The president’s comments during his interview with The Sun, however, highlighted Trump’s deeply held skepticism of immigration and resurfaced a line of attack that he had used often on the campaign trail – that Europe was being overrun by non-Europeans and was quickly becoming a shell of what it once was.
“I think you are losing your culture,” he told the tabloid….
The Hillreporter goes on to say, but, but, but, the numbers coming in have slowed.
I have seen that talking point everywhere. So, even if the numbers of migrants have diminished somewhat in the last two years, the damage was done when hundreds of thousands of Africans and Middle Easterners previously got in and are still there roaming around Europe!
See my ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive (which I have been adding to for years) by clicking here.
Endnote: As regular readers know, I watch CNN for a bit every morning to learn what has their panties-in-a-wad each day, and boy were they freaking out about The Suninterview, but not one word about this part of the interview—-the immigration/cultural destruction comments!
I should have posted this yesterday, but it doesn’t matter if the news is a bit old. The major point I want to make with this post is this (something that no one seems to want to get the answer to):
So where are these impoverished people from all over Africa and the Middle East (Central America too!) getting gobs of cash to pay traffickers?
Where are the investigators trying to find that answer because that answer, whatever it is, could potentially bring down the whole scam.
I have some ideas, and you probably do as well, but why doesn’t anyone (who could actually do something about it) ever seem to want the answer.
Or, do they know, and they don’t want us to know!
Africans piled up in Libya waiting for the next boat out.
“Under her continued leadership, Germany will be largely immobilized at home and in Europe.”
(Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, director of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund)
To save herself (HER government) she agreed to border controls for Germany.
Details are “sketchy,” but she agreed to the creation of transit centers at Germany’s borders to detain incoming migrants.
The migrants will be sorted and those who applied for asylum elsewhere in Europe will be returned to that country. The others??? Will they be deported immediately? Or, is Germany in for many years of housing migrants in camps?
Will the migrants love her now?
This New York Times story on what happened yesterday isn’t bad considering the source and makes the point near the end that Donald Trump is also putting pressure on Germany to pay-up for their NATO defense protection, or else. The ‘or else’ could be the removal of more of our military from the German state where we have tens of thousands of American servicemen stationed.
When President Trump goes to the NATO summit in a week, he will be meeting a very much weakened German chancellor.
Agreeing to any sort of border controls is a BFD! One of the founding principles in the creation of the European Union was the idea of free movement of people between its participating countries and Angela Merkel was a leading proponent of that policy.
From the New York Times:
Merkel, to Survive, Agrees to Border Camps for Migrants
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel, who staked her legacy on welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants into Germany, agreed on Monday to build border camps for asylum seekers and to tighten the border with Austria in a political deal to save her government.
It was a spectacular turnabout for a leader who has been seen as the standard-bearer of the liberal European order but who has come under intense pressure at home from the far right and from conservatives in her governing coalition over her migration policy.
Although the move to appease the conservatives exposed her growing political weakness, Ms. Merkel will limp on as chancellor. For how long is unclear. The nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment that has challenged multilateralism elsewhere in Europe is taking root — fast — in mainstream German politics.
Ms. Merkel agreed to the latest policy after an insurrection over migration policy led by her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, threatened to bring down her coalition.
Mr. Seehofer demanded that Germany block migrants at the border if they have no papers, or have already registered in another European country.
Ms. Merkel, who supports free movement across Europe’s borders, has been opposed to any moves effectively resurrecting border controls until Monday night, when she made the deal to stay in power.
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It would establish camps, called “transit centers,” at points along the border. Newly arriving migrants would be screened in the centers, and any determined to have already applied for asylum elsewhere in the European Union would be turned back.
Turning them back to the countries where they first arrived is going to cause even more tension between Germany and its neighbors.But, not mentioned here is what about all those who have no legitimate right to asylum, are they going to ship them right back to Africa or the Middle East?
Merkel in the breach—holding back the rise of the right! The New York Times story briefly refers to the rape and murder of Maria, a German student, by an Afghan asylum seeker as the beginning of the change in attitude of the German public about Merkel’s welcome to migrants in 2015.
Under Ms. Merkel, Germany has been a bulwark against the rise of the far right in Europe and the increasing turn against migrants. Even as neighboring countries turned away those fleeing war and strife in the Middle East, she has welcomed more than a million since 2015, and lobbied for a collective European solution.
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Anti-migrant feelings helped lead to the rise of a far-right political party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which has put Germany’s more mainstream parties under pressure to change.
Ms. Merkel has been unable to stem the changing tide, with cascading implications for politics in Germany and Europe.
Much more here.
President Trump should find her less cocky (than he found her in Canada at the recent G7 meeting) when he gets to the NATO summit next week in Brussels.
LOL! Maybe they can share notes on detention centers! Will German’s separate the children for instance? Go here for my archive on the ‘Invasion of Europe.’
