Posted on 01/26/2017 5:31:36 AM PST by blam
Migrants granted leave to remain in Switzerland on the basis that they risk death in their homelands are using welfare money to fund holidays back home, the Basler Zeitung reports. The Swiss newspaper notes that thousands of migrants each year are heading to Eritrea for their holidays each year despite their having supposedly fled the northeast African nation in fear of their lives.
Although a large proportion of Eritreans in Switzerland have been refused asylum, authorities are powerless to deport them because their homelands are deemed to be too dangerous by the country’s refugee policy.
While there are no direct flights to Eritrea, the Basler Zeitung says it found that up to fifty people a day are leaving Switzerland in order to holiday in the African country.
It typically costs around 599 Swiss Francs (£475) in January or 650 Swiss Francs (£516) in high season for a return journey to Eritrea according to the German language daily, which notes that taxpayer stipends to migrants must be quite generous as the vast majority of Eritreans residing in Switzerland live on welfare.
Stating it to be unlikely that more than a small handful of migrants would “abuse the asylum system”, the Swiss Secretariat for Migration (SEM) told the Basler Zeitung that it’s difficult to work out the number of Eritreans who are taking holidays in their country of origin due to the lack of direct flights.
Of the nearly 50,000 applications to travel abroad filed by refugees, asylum seekers and people in Switzerland who have temporary residence permits between 2010 and 2014, 97.5 per cent were successful.
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Oh man, what dumb suckers these “enlightened” and diversity minded Euro countries are!
Their 'homelands' were that way long before the short-sighted refugee policy was enacted.
It happened in Minnesota, too, with Somali refugees.
We’ve got them here, too. Mostly Democrats & GOP-elites.
Politicians using our taxes to buy themselves votes & to
erect high walls around their own compounds for their
protection from these “migrants”.
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