Posted on 09/04/2015 1:51:41 PM PDT by robowombat
UN wants Europe to take 200,000 permanent refugees; Poland says stop the illegal flow first! UK buckles!
by Ann Corcoran
More 'Invasion of Europe' news..... Guterres Former head of Socialists International, UNHCR Antonio Guterres is calling the shots for Europe AND America
As EU leaders meet today to discuss the migrant crisis overwhelming Europe, the UN ups the number of refugees it is demanding that European countries permanently resettle.
By the way, in 2014 the UN was demanding that all western countries (not Gulf Arab states and not communist Russia or China!) take 130,000 permanent Syrian refugees.
That is how the number 65,000! for America came to be---the UN and the US resettlement contractors said that since the US takes half of the refugees from around the world, our SHARE is 65,000!
Using that logic, since the UN is now upping the number are we expected to take 100,000?
Here is the latest at Deutsche Welle:
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees has called for up to 200,000 refugees to be shared across the European Union. Various meetings are due to be held across the EU to discuss the crisis.
Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said on Friday that EU member states would be bound to the "mass relocation program."
Polish Foreign Minister wisely says---stop the flow!
Poland's Grzegorz Schetyna says STOP the "illegal migration" first!
Former Communist block countries seem to get it!
There is really no sense discussing the numbers to be distributed (or forced on each European state) when there is no will to stop the invasion!
Remember Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told European leaders months ago that they needed to (safely) turn boats back to where they were launched! No effort was ever made! This present crisis could have been averted had EU leaders followed Abbott's advice back in April.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says this is Germany's problem apparently a reference to Chancellor Angela Merkel's invitation to the Syrians.
Deutsche Welle quotes Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grzegorz Schetyna near the end of the story. Clearly Schetyna believes most of the illegal aliens are 'economic migrants' and not truly persecuted refugees.
Poland warned on Friday that the EU must tackle the causes behind the huge migrant influx or risk being inundated with millions of refugees.
"The scale of the migration is enormous, so we can't focus - I'm talking about the whole of Europe - on allocating illegal migrants without fighting the causes [of their arrival]," Schetyna told private Radio Zet.
"We have to think of how to stop the illegal migration. Otherwise [we may have] soon have 3-4 million economic refugees," he added.
By the way, Poland has taken some Christian Syrians who do not pose a threat to the largely Catholic country.
Meanwhile the UK is caving. Previously the Cameron government had been holding firm and not allowing itself to be bullied into taking large numbers of Syrian refugees. But, here Cameron buckles to pressure. From The Guardian (hat tip: Joanne).
Cameron bows to pressure to let in more Syrian refugees Prime minister says UK will take thousands of people now housed in UN refugee camps on Syria’s border 0:00 / 0:53 David Cameron defends the government’s policy on refugees on Thursday Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt Thursday 3 September 2015 15.24 EDT Last modified on Friday 4 September 2015 03.44 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 28,299 Save for later David Cameron has bowed to growing international and domestic demands that Britain take in more refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war by indicating that the UK would accept thousands more refugees.
Final details of the numbers, funding and planned location of the refugees, were being urgently sorted out in Whitehall, with local councils insisting the programme had to be fully funded by central government.
Cameron is expected to map out his new approach to the crisis after long arranged talks in Madrid on Friday with the Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, originally convened to discuss Britain’s plans for reform of the European Union.
He may not be able to put a specific number on how many refugees the government is willing to take, but it is expected the government will make a Commons statement on Monday when parliament returns after the summer recess.
People selected to come to the UK are likely to be drawn from the UNHCR camps on the border of Syria and not from Calais or other locations near the country. But the final number of refugees allowed in to the UK will amount to fewer than tens of thousands, well short of the numbers likely to be taken by Germany.
The prime minister appeared to remain convinced that accepting a large number of Syrian refugees who were already in Europe would worsen the crisis and create more chaos; it would incentivise criminal gangs to persuade more people to undertake the risky journey across the Mediterranean and eastern Europe from the Middle East.
Cameron believes that, since there are reportedly two million Syrian refugees in the Middle East, the ultimate answer does not lie in taking refugees but in finding a political solution within Syria.
0:00 / 0:00 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Abdullah Kurdi, 40, the father of Aylan, describes the dramatic moments when the boat he was travelling on with his family suddenly capsized. Downing Street officials acknowledged that Cameron had been moved to act by the scale of the gathering crisis as well as the change in the public mood brought to a head by the publication of heartbreaking pictures showing a Syrian boy drowned and washed up on a beach in Turkey.
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Ministers insist the levels of British financial aid to fund the UNHCR-run camps has been as generous as any other country. But with a steady build-up of politicians, church leaders, council leaders and community groups urging the government to show greater humanity, Cameron signalled a change of tone on Thursday, saying: “Britain is a moral nation and we will fulfil our moral responsibilities.”
Before details of the refugee plan emerged, Cameron, speaking at a Hitachi train plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, said: “Anyone who saw those pictures overnight could not help but be moved and, as a father, I felt deeply moved by the sight of that young boy on a beach in Turkey.”
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, branded the refugee emergency a “wicked crisis” and said his heart was “broken” by the harrowing images of men, women and children fleeing persecution. He added: “We cannot turn our backs on this crisis. We must respond with compassion, but we must also not be naive in claiming to have the answers to end it.
Cameron faced pressure from some of his own backbenchers, including many Christians, to offer to do more. The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, also called for him to change tack. “We should take people fleeing persecution and those plainly in fear for their lives. London will, of course, face up to its moral responsibilities,” he said.
France and Germany called on the EU on Thursday to force member countries to take obligatory quotas of refugees and asylum seekers.
0:00 / 0:00 Facebook Twitter Pinterest People rush into Budapest Keleti railway station and try to board trains following the re-opening of the station. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said, during a visit to Switzerland, that the French-German position represented a “sharing of duty … the principle of solidarity”. Shortly afterwards, François Hollande, the French president, said there should be a permanent and obligatory mechanism for the accepting of refugees. He carefully avoided using the word “quota”.
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Tensions between EU member states have risen in recent days with 3,000 people camping outside the Keleti railway station in Budapest, hoping to be allowed to travel to Germany following its declaration that Syrians who reached the country would be allowed to stay.
On the edge of the EU’s borders, Abdullah Kurdi, the father of the Syrian boy who was photographed lying lifeless on a Turkish beach after his family attempted to reach the Greek island of Kos, said he was preparing to take the bodies of his two sons and wife to be buried in his home town of Kobani.
Kurdi said he no longer had any desire to continue on his journey to Europe. Speaking outside the mortuary where the bodies of his two sons were being held, he said: “I just want to see my children for the last time and stay forever with them.”
The imminent new intake of refugees will be taken from the two million Syrians sheltering in border refugee camps probably under an existing Home Office vulnerable person relocation scheme set up last year and administered in conjunction with the UNHCR that resettles Syrians.
Only 200 have been taken by Britain so far under this scheme, although the government has given asylum or other forms of humanitarian protection to nearly 5,000 Syrians who have applied for asylum having reached Britain since the crisis started in early 2011.
Cameron said: “There isn’t a solution to this problem that is simply about taking people. We need a comprehensive solution; a new government in Libya. We need to deal with the problems in Syria. I would say the people responsible for these terrible scenes we see, the people most responsible, are president Assad in Syria and the butchers of Isil [Islamic State] and the criminal gangs that are running this terrible trade in people. And we have to be as tough on them at the same time.”
Downing Street is nervous of being seen to open UK borders or to be dragged into an EU-led scheme. It fears that a potentially “fickle” outburst of compassion, in part driven by news organisations, could obscure continued deep concerns about immigration among the British public.
Germany and France demand binding refugee quotas for EU members Read more Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, who has led the calls for greater government compassion, welcomed signs of a government change of heart, but said as many as 10,000 refugees should be accepted.
Harriet Harman, the interim Labour leader, called on Cameron to convene an emergency meeting of the Cobra cabinet committee to draw together the government response.
Cameron was accused by Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, of adopting a “walk on by on the other side” approach after he said on Wednesday that the UK would not take any extra refugees. Alex Salmond the SNP foreign affairs spokesman, said: “Cameron is shaming not just the UK, he is shaming humanity with his total abject refusal to accept any joint collective responsibility.”
They’ll demand that number every year. Sheer madness.
UN. UNnecessary. UNwanted. UNprepared. UNwarranted. UNeffective. (okay, I took liberties with that last one.)
“Permanent refugees” like a permanent victim class becomes multi-generational refugees.
The term doesn’t even make sense.
“That is how the number 65,000! for America came to be-—the UN and the US resettlement contractors said that since the US takes half of the refugees from around the world, our SHARE is 65,000! “
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even those Hillary emails were putting the UN down, lol
Arab states don’t offer to take in Arab refuges, nothing new. Fakestinians are still in Refuge camps for 65 years.
Not our problem, Shia vs. Sunni its their fricken civil war.
Arabs should solve their own problems
Cameron must not be allowed to open the doors to more Muslim invaders. The British people need to rise up and drag him out of office (Of course, nothing of the sort will happen; the rot is too deep and Britain is committing suicide.).
UNaccountable bureaucrats (socialists/totalitarians)
President Trump, should, on day one, give the UN the boot. Talk about the center of anti-American activities. Plus, it would free up some prime real estate on the east side of Manhattan for something that might, by chance, just be productive.
“Arab states don’t offer to take in Arab refuges, nothing new. Fakestinians are still in Refuge camps for 65 years.”
Of course they don’t take them . This is their strategy for expansion and always has been .
It wasn’t all that long ago that Lebanon used to be a Christian country . They felt sorry for the palestinians and let a bunch of them come in and set up a refugee camp for them . With in a couple of years those refugees rewarded them with gangs stopping Christians on the streets and murdering them . A war soon followed .
And how many refugees did the UN demand....
China
India
Japan
Indonesia
Vietnam
North Korea
South Korea
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Singapore
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Mongolia
Iran (especially Iran)
Russia
Azerbaijan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Cuba
Venezuela
Bolivia
Ecuador
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Uruguay
The Ever Immigrant Friendly Tolerant Nation of Mexico
Panama
Surinam
Guyana
Dominican Republica
Haiti
Belize
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Jamaica
And of course
ALL of the Fabulous, Altruistic and Civilized Continent and countries of Africa, the Land That All Egalitarians Seek to Emulate
Take?
Oh..right...they’re all Special...so the number is ZERO.
What I want to know is...
If the 3rd world wanted to invade the 1st world, how it would look different than what we are currently witnessing?
I honestly believe we are witnessing the fall of western civilization.
The 3rd world has no guns, no planes, or tanks, or ships, just endless billions of people who want what we have. They know they cant fight against our military, so they will just flood into our countries by the millions.
The enemy is inside the gate.
CommUNistic
In 20 years that number will increase to 1,000,000 through childbearing alone
Let’s just call them what they are; semi-human trash.
People who think nothing of killing their children, something that even a pig will defend, these people will strap a bomb to. People who aren’t willing to build anything, but are more than eager to blow something given to them to pieces, hopefully killing women and children in the process. People who are too cowardly to fight for freedom that was won with American lives, blood and money. People who flee from an untrained mob that arrives pickup trucks, as they drop their machine guns, flee their tanks and armored transports, and happily surrender the arms that were given to them.
Iraqi, Iranian, Palestinian - they are all the same. Lazy, cowards. I don’t want them as neighbors, and I certainly wouldn’t trust them as friends.
I also believe we are witnessing the fall of western civilization... in more ways than one.
This is “barbarians at the gates” stuff, right out of the history books.
Honor Killings, kidnappings, beheading people of their own religion, that is why Arab states like the Eremites, Gulf States won’t take them in.
Look its an Intra-religious Shia vs. Sunni rivalry going on long before the modern state of Israel.
Note Israel has Knesset Arab MK’s and over 1.5 million Arab citizens. This is Muslim problem. All these countries are dictatorships of one nasty stripe or the other. The Mothers milk of Terrorism in the world.
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