Posted on 08/26/2015 5:53:13 AM PDT by RightGeek
Thousands of refugees, most fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have been snaking northward through the Balkans in recent days, confronting a Europe woefully unprepared to deal with them at every step.
Most endured a perilous crossing to Greece aboard rafts and boats, some barely fit to sail. They traversed Greece, a nation paralyzed by economic crisis and too poor to handle a flow of people that in July hit a record high. At the border with Macedonia late last week, they trudged through a wall of riot police, who fought them back with tear gas before relenting. Now, the asylum-seekers, thousands a day, are racing into Hungary, which is rushing to complete a barbed-wire border fence by the end of the month to force them to seek other routes.
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The overall E.U. numbers have tripled compared with last year. According to E.U. law, asylum-seekers are supposed to apply for help in their first port of entry. In reality, many front-line countries give them transit papers or look the other way as they slip onward to richer nations within Europe’s borderless Schengen zone.
Their arrivals are reverberating around Europe. Earlier in August, thousands of refugees piled up in Calais, France, seeking to cross to Britain through the railway tunnel that exits there. On Saturday, the Italian coast guard rescued about 4,400 migrants from overcrowded ships off the coast of Libya.
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Now try to imagine the flood if any European countries gave birthright citizenship to anchor babies.
These are invading armies. What needs to be done cannot be stomached by decaying Western democracies. The migrants in the Mediterranean should not be rescued, they should be turned back and if they sink, that is a lesson for the millions waiting to also try to cross. The smuggler boats need to be targeted and destroyed on shore or in foreign harbors. Those trying to cross into Hungary should be given one warning and then turned back with whatever force is necessary. This is a new crusade and the invading hordes must be stopped.
The compassionate nations in the West overthrew these "brutal" dictatorships...and are now suffering the consequences.
Europe experiencing direct consequences of Obama / Hillary stupidity. Yes, it sucks.
Mr. President, we must not allow a fence gap!
Well said!
Europe experiencing direct consequences of Obama / Hillary stupidity.
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They are not stupid; it’s all part of the plan.
Hungary has a history of invasion by muslins, I am really happy they are doing something to protect what’s left of their country.
Check out article and # 1 , # 3 .
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That would describe a Phase I.
I would argue that while migrants should not be allowed wholesale entry to other nations, a Phase II should involve a), UN forces entering the disrupted homelands and providing security in the form of sanctuary and b), neutralizing the hostilities. We either deal with it there, or we deal with "it" in one form or another within our respective borders.
When is the last time we heard of "UN forces" being effective?
Hey, wait just a minute! I thought we were told fences don’t work.
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