Funny, huh?
Europe: Borders Are Back Baby!
During the heyday of the European Union Euro-types were fond of pointing out how Europe no longer had internal borders - you could travel from Rome to Copenhagen with just your EU passport - and lecturing Americans over our passé notions of immigration control. But now that the PIGS countries are collapsing and refugees are pouring in from outside the EU, suddenly national border checks are back:
Denmark is to reintroduce controls at its EU borders with Germany and Sweden in an attempt to curb crime and illegal immigration, ahead of today’s [Thu] meeting in Brussels that will discuss the visa-free Schengen zone…
Passport-free travel across the ‘Schengen’ area, which does not include Britain or Ireland, has come under unprecedented pressure after Italy gave residence permits to more than 25,000 Arabs last month, allowing them unfettered access to the rest of the EU.
The European Commission was last week forced to propose the reintroduction of temporary passport controls as “under very exception circumstances” after a conflict between France and Italy threatened to destroy the border-free zone.
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin’ the trakball into the Twilight...)
So that 11 million figure was phony all along?
“First – 46 million? … does anyone believe that number? I don’t. It might very well have been that, at the beginning of this mess, but look here, La Gran Salida is REAL. You might not see it in your area, but I see it in mine. Look, our local neighborhood grocery store, so small I have trouble finding anything not routine, was starting to stock magazines in Spanish in 2007....”
http://accordingtohoyt.com/2013/06/23/come-down-from-that-ledge/