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In crisis, Greece rounds up immigrants
Associated Press ^
| 8/22/2012
| AP
Posted on 08/22/2012 7:10:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
NEA VYSSA, Greece (AP) -- Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling wave after wave of migrants.
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In Athens, the operation is being bolstered by mass roundups of suspected illegal immigrants. They are seen lined up on the streets of the capital every day, many in handcuffs, waiting to be put in detention until they can be deported. In the first week of the crackdown in early August, police said they apprehended nearly 7,000 people for identification checks; nearly 1,700 were slated for deportation.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: albania; aliens; europeanunion; greece; illegalimmigrants; islam; macedonia; turkey
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To: Boogieman
How bad are things in Turkey when they are still trying to swarm across the border to a bankrupt Greece teetering on the brink of collapse? Greece may officially be on the edge of collapse, but so far the welfare payments are continuing. That is what is attracting immigrants, and that is why the Greeks are finding themselves needing to expel all the immigrants they can lay hands on, in order to stay afloat for a little while longer.
Right now, it's all a game of "what can we do RIGHT NOW that will hold off collapse for a few months, weeks, days?"
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:06:06 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
To: PapaBear3625
At last a sane reaction in Europe !
Hope the pro-immigrant tool in the WH will soon be expelled
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:07:32 AM PDT
by
Ulysse
(O)
To: PapaBear3625
Afghans currently make up the highest number of people crossing illegally, followed by Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and
Syria, according to the agency.
The police operation has faced strong criticism
focusing on alleged racial profiling
I suppose they should be stopping elderly white ladies, clearly they are the most likely to be illegal. Its insane how there people scream profiling when the suspects clearly fit a profile. Just makes my head hurt.
Now if I read the article right they have about 2500 people guarding 130 mile border. With two shifts thats about 10 people per mile. They could practically hold hands with those numbers LOL
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:07:32 AM PDT
by
chaos_5
To: JustSurrounded
Words fail me ... Sounds like Amnesty International just got some cash from Islamic countries who have just realized what a disaster it will be for them if their emigrants are forced to return to their high-unemployment homelands. (Turkey's official unemployment rate is 10%, the rest are worse).
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:10:52 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
To: chaos_5
Now if I read the article right they have about 2500 people guarding 130 mile border. With two shifts thats about 10 people per mile. They could practically hold hands with those numbers LOL You need at least 4 shifts for 24/7 coverage (5 per mile). That's still pretty good.
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:14:45 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
To: MNDude
Where are most of their immigrants from? Muslims. From the Mediterranean. Sending them to their "homeland" is just desserts for where other muslims want to send Israelis.
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:16:31 AM PDT
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: MNDude
Where are most of their immigrants from?
The article says:
Afghans currently make up the highest number of people crossing illegally, followed by Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and an increasing number of people from war-ravaged Syria, according to the agency.
Makes you wonder why they don’t stay in Muslim Turkey.
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:39:00 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: cartan
Makes you wonder why they dont stay in Muslim Turkey. I suspect that trying to get welfare in Turkey, or trying to compete for low-end jobs against Turks, gets you sent out of Turkey real fast.
Look for Italy, Spain, and some other EU countries to follow suit over the next few months, as they each try to hold off collapse for a little while.
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:52:07 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
To: cartan
Makes you wonder why they dont stay in Muslim Turkey.So they can add Greece to the Caliphate.
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:53:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
08/22/2012 8:59:57 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Americans want what Americans always wanted: Better lives for families; little government authority.)
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:10:07 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: PapaBear3625; All
I'd like to see your evidence their "unproductive immigrants" are "mostly Muslim."
I find it interesting AP will use the term illegal immigrants with regards to Greece but the accurate phrase is often considered controversial, offensive and even racist here.
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:14:21 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Election night is 75 days away.)
To: PapaBear3625; All
Interesting. For information on how it was done in the USA during the 1950’s, Google “Operation Wetback”. Most of you younger folks may be be quite surprised.
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: manc
we should do the same, they are here illegally, they broke the law and showed no respect plus they drain the economy with free education, health care etc.
But your government has no interest in doing this, regardless if tens of millions of Americans are under employed or unemployed.
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:41:04 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: PapaBear3625
AT THE SAME TIME: Dimocrats, Obama and Liberals are packing them in the back doors of the United States by the thousands and thousands.
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:47:55 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(The Signs of the Times are clear. The days grow short. Your only way to avoid is BELIEVE in Him!)
To: PapaBear3625
Ironic
Gemany took in Turks for low cost labor, and now they are in the same mess.
France, the Algerians
US of A, Mexicans for the most part.
You don’t really see this in Japan, Korea, Thialand and so on. Why is that? Just no reporting?
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posted on
08/22/2012 9:55:25 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
“Very good. At least one country is starting to resist the Third World invasion.”
If the Third World were to invade Greece, it would not be noticeable.
To: newzjunkey
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posted on
08/22/2012 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
To: Uncle Slayton
Having not been to Greece I don’t know. However, the Greeks did successfully resist a Third World invasion circa 490 BC.
We need more countries expelling the illegals!
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posted on
08/22/2012 11:02:02 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: manc
Imfed up of hearing that illegals pay taxes too. hey do not, I got to know quite a few ilegals while I was up north and not one of them ever paid any tax, they got paid cash but boy did they use the health care and education system for their kids.
What they 'might' do is file taxes - and most get money back that they never paid in (the EIC). Even worse.
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