Posted on 02/09/2024 5:08:18 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Irregular immigration to the EU from Western Africa rose more than ten times on the year in January, according to the bloc's Frontex border agency, which expects overall arrivals to grow in 2024 and says halting the movement of people completely is impossible.
Frontex head Hans Leijtens spoke in his Warsaw office ahead of a trip by the EU chief executive and Spanish prime minister on Thursday to Mauritania, which has recently become a major point of departure for Europe.
Asked about a June EU-wide parliamentary election, in which migration is a top issue, the former Dutch border guard told Reuters that stopping irregular arrivals completely was not realistic.
"Migration is a global phenomenon. We need to manage migration because we can't cope with unmanaged migration to Europe," he said. "But a full stop - for me that seems very difficult, not to say impossible."
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C'mon, Hans, you've heard of land mines.
Agree.
They have no guns?
Seriously?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Even if you can't stop it entirely, a 90% reduction would be a huge success.
Is God, who is perfect, the enemy of the good? That’s what that phrase implies.
Pathetic.
We controlled our border ruthlessly well into the 1970s.
“EU Border Agency Says Stopping Migration Is Impossible”
It is ‘impossible’ when you (as in EU, in this case) are the ones FUNDING the migration.
Sounds like one of the elites in the book “Camp of the Saints”.
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