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EU looks to camps in Africa to cut immigration
Ekathimerini ^ | 16 January 2017

Posted on 01/29/2017 4:29:21 PM PST by Lorianne

EU interior ministers will consider plans on Thursday to finance camps in Africa where the UN refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants to prevent them trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

The sea crossing from Libya to Italy, operated by people smugglers, is now the main route for migrants seeking better lives in wealthy Europe, but the EU wants to shut it down and admit only refugees. More than 4,500 people are known to have drowned last year alone trying to make the crossing.

The European Union has deployed a naval mission in the Mediterranean and is training the Libyan coastguard to cut the numbers attempting the journey. Now it also wants to return migrants plucked from the sea to where they came from.

"The idea is to send them to a safe place, without bringing them into Europe," German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters as he arrived for the talks in the Maltese capital Valletta.

"The people taken up by the smugglers need to be saved and brought to a safe place, but then from this safe place outside Europe we would bring into Europe only those who require protection," he said.

The camps in Libya or its neighbors would be run by the UN refugee agency UNHCR or the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which would screen the migrants and help return those not eligible for asylum to their home countries.

Most of those taking the Libya-Italy route are regarded as economic migrants with no chance of winning asylum in the EU.

Since the influx of more than a million people in 2015, many of them fleeing the Syrian conflict, the EU has tightened border controls, making it increasingly hard for migrants and asylum seekers alike to enter the 28-nation bloc.

It is also offering money and assistance to countries along the migration routes in the hope that fewer people will seek to leave their homes or will be stopped on the way before they embark for Europe.

The idea of financing camps in Africa enjoys wide political backing in the EU, but poses legal and security challenges.

Libya sank into chaos following the 2011 overthrow of veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi, and the new UN-backed government in Tripoli exercises no control over its territory.

Such lawlessness means returning people to Libya would likely violate international law, which prohibits sending people back to a place where their lives could be in danger.

That is why the EU needs the UNHCR and IOM to create sites there that could be deemed as meeting international humanitarian standards. It is an effort to replicate parts of existing agreements the EU has with Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, which host several million Syrian refugees in camps on their soil.

Following the EU deal with Ankara last year, arrivals from the Turkish coast to Greece dropped sharply.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: africa; eu; migration
Let's review. The EU doesn't want 'economic migrants' coming into its territory ... but Donald Trump is a monster for not wanting economic migrants (or terrorists) to come into the USA.
1 posted on 01/29/2017 4:29:21 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Racist, awful people. Hope they pour out into the streets because Italy and Europe don’t have enough Somali and Libyan “refugees.”


2 posted on 01/29/2017 4:31:20 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: Lorianne

Send the Islamics fleeing oppression to Saudi Arabia so they can gain an understanding of just what islamic oppression really looks like.


3 posted on 01/29/2017 4:31:41 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Lorianne

They should have done this three years ago. Better late than never. I guess they now see The Donald is serious about what he said during the campaign. Shock!


4 posted on 01/29/2017 4:33:04 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Paladin2

Davos Boss: A BILLION African Refugees (coming to Europe-if commodity prices drop)?

http://www.vdare.com/posts/davos-boss-a-billion-african-refugees


5 posted on 01/29/2017 4:35:09 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Lorianne

Camps in Africa? Sounds like an EU muslim ban.


6 posted on 01/29/2017 4:36:19 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Sounds very suspiciously like that doesn’t it?


7 posted on 01/29/2017 4:38:59 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: combat_boots

Establish a beachhead in SA and funnel all of the migratory Africans into there.


8 posted on 01/29/2017 4:41:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Lorianne

There is a whole sophisticated pipeline of shuttling these “refugees” to the north, with profiteering all along the way, with coyotes, hookers, and all the services they need. It’s outrageous.


9 posted on 01/29/2017 4:42:00 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Paladin2

One, repeat, ONE of the princes of SA makes $1 Bn USD every other day on oil.

SA can afford to take in ‘refugees’.

I know they don’t take Palestinians.


10 posted on 01/29/2017 4:46:01 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: combat_boots

Stick their responsibilities to them.


11 posted on 01/29/2017 4:46:55 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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I’m surprised the EU has finally figured out that the ‘economic migrants’ intend to loot the EU.


12 posted on 01/29/2017 4:50:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Funny how things come full circle. Christian missioniaries went around the world trying to help people. In addition to teaching the Gospel, they set up housing, schools, hospitals, irrigation and sewage systems and small industries to help the people. Soon, the leftists started screaming, “Cultural imperialism!” and made them stop. So petty tyrants took over and there’s been nothing but war and devastation, and many people are desperate to leave there and flood into civilized western nations.

So now that the leftists have been running politics in the civilized western nations for 60 years, we’ve arrived at the place where western nations are having to go to blighted countries and set up housing, schools, hospitals, irrigation and sewage systems and small industries to help the people. The only thing missing will be the main thing. Sad.


13 posted on 01/29/2017 7:09:43 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.")
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"I’m surprised the EU has finally figured out that the ‘economic migrants’ intend to loot the EU."

It's already too late. They are doomed by the demographics.
Muslims will own Europe in the near future.

Read This Book.

14 posted on 01/29/2017 7:18:27 PM PST by blam
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