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10 years after Europe’s migration crisis, the fallout reverberates in Greece and beyond
AP News ^ | Updated 11:11 PM CDT, June 19, 2025 | DEREK GATOPOULOS, LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and RENATA BRITO

Posted on 06/20/2025 9:21:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Fleeing Iran with her husband and toddler, Amena Namjoyan reached a rocky beach of this eastern Greek island along with hundreds of thousands of others. For months, their arrival overwhelmed Lesbos. Boats fell apart, fishermen dove to save people from drowning, and local grandmothers bottle-fed newly arrived babies.

Namjoyan spent months in an overcrowded camp. She learned Greek. She struggled with illness and depression as her marriage collapsed. She tried to make a fresh start in Germany but eventually returned to Lesbos, the island that first embraced her. Today, she works at a restaurant, preparing Iranian dishes that locals devour, even if they struggle to pronounce the names. Her second child tells her, “‘I’m Greek.’”

“Greece is close to my culture, and I feel good here,” Namjoyan said. “I am proud of myself.”

In 2015, more than 1 million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe — the majority by sea, landing in Lesbos, where the north shore is just 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey. The influx of men, women and children fleeing war and poverty sparked a humanitarian crisis that shook the European Union to its core. A decade later, the fallout still reverberates on the island and beyond.

For many, Greece was a place of transit. They continued on to northern and western Europe. Many who applied for asylum were granted international protection; thousands became European citizens. Countless more were rejected, languishing for years in migrant camps or living in the streets. Some returned to their home countries. Others were kicked out of the European Union.

For Namjoyan, Lesbos is a welcoming place — many islanders share a refugee ancestry, and it helps that she speaks...

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1 posted on 06/20/2025 9:21:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Remember it well from the Obama era - the source of those migrants? The destroyed countries of Syria and Libya.

Weaponized migration, courtesy of globalists, neocons, and Neo-marxists

Its used on Europe

Under Biden, it was used on the USA.

Now tell me how “regime change” in Iran is supposed to work out


2 posted on 06/20/2025 9:25:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

zero mention about how these Muslim refuges soon begin to harass the local European women, forever changing the safety of the home nation for its locals.


3 posted on 06/20/2025 9:32:13 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DJT, add this island to your list of receiving lands for our deportees. It’s wonderful to find places so welcoming for these leeches....


4 posted on 06/20/2025 10:05:24 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
She learned Greek.

You mean the phones don't say 'For Greek press 1. For Persian press 2'?

I thought when you hear that you are a successful nation! 😀

5 posted on 06/20/2025 10:19:32 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: rod5591

Sappho of ancient Greece on this island Lesbos popularized “Lesbianism” there.

Wonder how that tradition interfaces with the Mohammedan invaders?


6 posted on 06/20/2025 10:24:17 AM PDT by Bruce Buckley
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To: PGR88

It will work out well for Iranians. Hamas, Hezbollah and Russia will be the losers.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 10:34:33 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: PGR88

Back when the Vietnam war ended one of our workers wondered who the next war would be with. I thought a few minutes and said, “islam”. I was not the only person who thought that.

I also wondered if such wars would cause massive migrations of people into Europe and the US. It did.


8 posted on 06/20/2025 11:00:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Send them to Spain. They’re claiming the economy there is rising because of foreigners.


9 posted on 06/20/2025 11:29:46 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter
It appears that Lesbos was under Persian control at least for a while during the reign of Darius I. Herodotus reports that Darius made a man named Coes the tyrant of Mytilene (but the Mytileneans later stoned Coes to death).

I don't know much about Persian names but I wonder if this woman might be Armenian--a lot of names ending in -ian or -yan are Armenian (but not all of them).

10 posted on 06/20/2025 4:33:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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