Seeking Sanctuary, More Migrants Confront Land Route’s Perils

NY Times ^ | JULY 25, 2015 | RICK LYMAN

[Second Amendment First]

SUBOTICA, Serbia. — They call it “the jungle,” but it’s really just a tangle of dirt paths through stunted trees near an abandoned brick factory.

Between 150 and 200 people — mostly men, with a smattering of young families — cluster in discrete groups in scattered campsites, most resting on dusty blankets, the earth blackened here and there by the remains of the previous night’s fires.

“We have people from Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Morocco,” said Mohamd, 42, a former truck driver for a factory near Aleppo, Syria, who hopes to reach the Netherlands. “Am I forgetting anyone?”

His cousin, Walid, 45, scratched his well-worn sandal into the hard clay. “Algeria?”

Mohamd waved him off. “That group went into Hungary two nights ago,” he said. “We have not seen them back yet.”

With war continuing to plague the Middle East and Afghanistan, and thousands trying to flee Africa’s grinding poverty, the swell of refugees and migrants hoping to reach Western Europe shows no signs of abating this summer.

For the last few years, the most popular route has been across the Mediterranean on boats run by Libyan smugglers that aimed for the nearest islands off the Italian coast. But as that route has become increasingly dangerous — the range of threats include drowning, abandonment by unscrupulous smugglers and crackdowns by European border patrols — the human tide is shifting. Increasingly, migrants are following a land-based route into Europe by way of Greece and the West Balkans.

But with the alternative crossing come other perils: violence, exploitation, intolerance. Though most European countries are overwhelmed by the tide, fueling an anti-immigrant backlash in many places, Eastern European countries like Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria are considered particularly hostile.

Still, the migrants keep coming.

[Second Amendment First]

Slowly, they ambled through a block of townhouses, across an empty park and up the hill to a shimmering lake. They went past a playground where children hammered a soccer ball against a metal door, and along an earthen berm toward a distant stack belching smoke, before turning and vanishing into the woods.

“I am really interested in them,” said Tibor Varga, an evangelical Christian minister whose Eastern European Outreach Mission in Subotica has been gathering food and water for the brick factory migrants. “I want to know their story.”

Europe has entered into a post-Christian era, he said, and Islam is part of the evil, along with homosexuality and abortion.

“The punishment is coming,” he said.

But with luck and decent treatment, the migrants might well embrace “European values,” Mr. Varga said.

“We all make our own decisions about how we will react to them,” he said. “It is a test of humanity. In this way, you see, everybody is passing their exams.”

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[tumblindice]

`Mohamd’.

[chicagolady]

Welcome to America! NOW GO HOME!

[Sasparilla]

Don’t they know about San Francisco?

[GeronL]

Ted
Ted
Ted

[GeronL]

But with luck and decent treatment, the migrants might well embrace “European values,” Mr. Varga said.

Self-deception

But with luck and decent treatment, the barbarians might well embrace Roman values...

[PistolPaknMama]

Spreading their evil cult everywhere.

[VerySadAmerican]

They allow these refugees to bring Islam to Europe because they’re running from Islam at home.

The solution is to destroy Islam where it lives. Otherwise in a few decades, if not sooner, the refugees will be from Europe.

[FlingWingFlyer]

And yet, reading from Obonzo’s script, the state-controlled “media” continues to lie to us by vomiting that immigration has bottomed out and almost stopped completely under Obonzo. Damn liars. All of them.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

The answer for illegal immigration here and in Europe, or “the plight of the refugees seeking sanctuary,” as the Progs would call it is very simple. The answer is to pacify their home countries with military force, so it will be safe for current refugees to go home.

Since most of the hellholes they come from are corrupt socialist satrapies, that will mean putting most of the current government officials there in re-education camps if they survive the invasion and takeover, I’m sure the returning refugees will take good care of them.