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E.U. nations pull welcome mats for migrants, imposing new restrictions
Washington Post ^ | September 17, 2015 | William Booth, Anthony Faiola and Michael Birnbaum

Posted on 09/17/2015 3:26:29 PM PDT by TroutStalker

ZAGREB, Croatia — European nations once friendly to refugees abruptly yanked their welcome mats Thursday, as Germany considered slashing its benefits and Croatia announced it was closing most of its road links with Serbia “until further notice.”

The German measures would overhaul asylum codes to stem the massive flow of migrants into Europe, scaling back the generous policies that have made Germany a beacon for desperate war refugees and economic migrants pouring out of the Middle East, Africa and beyond.

In a 128-page draft law produced by the German Interior Ministry and obtained by The Washington Post, the government would speed asylum procedures, cut cash benefits, hasten deportations and punish those with false claims and phony paperwork.

The tough new measures, the draft bill states, are needed to cope with the huge influx of refugees into Germany, where 800,000 asylum applications were expected this year in country with a population of 81 million.

In Croatia, meanwhile, leaders reversed themselves a day after they promised to greet asylum seekers with open arms — a greeting that stood in sharp contrast to a decision by neighboring Hungary to seal its frontier with razor wire and riot police.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; croatia; germany; hijrah; hungary

1 posted on 09/17/2015 3:26:29 PM PDT by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker

Maybe they are not as dumb as they look or as dumb as we actually are.


2 posted on 09/17/2015 3:34:41 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: TroutStalker

Arab Spring, Europe’s Fall.

They must reject any military age male, which for these fellows includes 2 to 90.


3 posted on 09/17/2015 3:35:20 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: TroutStalker

Day late and a dollar short there Europe. The horde has arrived. Civilian police and border patrol have no chance in turning the tide. And politically none in Europe has the stones to truly seal the border off.

Closing the roads? LOL! They will walk right past it.


4 posted on 09/17/2015 3:36:31 PM PDT by TheShaz
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To: TroutStalker
There must have been some imminent and severe security threats for Germany to do the 180.
5 posted on 09/17/2015 3:54:05 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

Well in Berlin today, an Iraqi savage, who’s lived in Berlin for a while and already had a conviction regarding terrorism, today stabbed a Berlin policewoman and was subsequently shot dead by the Berlin police.

IF he already had a conviction for terrorism and had been living in Berlin a while, he ought to have been deported back to Iraq or one of their other 7th Century hellholes immediately post-conviction NOT released back in society.

WTF?!


6 posted on 09/17/2015 4:18:42 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338073/posts

German officials arrested the Iraqi national in December 2004 for suspected involvement in a plot by the group Ansar al-Islam to assassinate former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi when he came to Berlin.

While German officials wanted to deport him back to Iraq in 2013 following his release, they couldn’t because he could have faced the death penalty for his involvement in the attempted attack.

7 posted on 09/17/2015 4:41:08 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

Great huh?

Stupid Liberal mentality. So they left him in Berlin, where today he attempted to murder a Berlin policewoman.

Who care’s if the POS got the death penalty in Iraq? I mean he’s dead now anyway, having been shot by the Berlin police.


8 posted on 09/17/2015 4:43:47 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

Like the Muslims’ say, “It was Allah’s will”. How ironic.


9 posted on 09/17/2015 4:51:42 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

How ironic indeed.


10 posted on 09/17/2015 4:52:44 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: TroutStalker

Croatia must have the stupidest Government in the whole of Europe.

They let the Muslim hordes in today, bizarrely didn’t think nearly 10,000 would flood in, now they all freaked out once in, like they’ve done everywhere else and Croatian Government freak out and say OMG we didn’t know, we can’t have anymore storming in, so stop it!

Croatian Government = Keystone Kops attitude to Government.


11 posted on 09/17/2015 5:14:33 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: Don Corleone

When you try to post it on facebook the WAPO changes the photo that will be posted to one of a child and a women.


12 posted on 09/17/2015 5:57:57 PM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: Don Corleone

When you try to post it on facebook the WAPO changes the photo that will be posted to one of a child and a women.


13 posted on 09/17/2015 5:58:31 PM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: Lucy Hamilton

The President of Croatia was a member of the TriLateral Commission, and held a position with NATO, and was an Ambassador to the USA, but I don’t know much else about her.


14 posted on 09/17/2015 10:29:21 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: sockmonkey
Yes, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is her name. There's been a bit of a row in Croatia, I have Croat friends. The above President, who's from a Right-Wing party and the party is very Nationalist* she's gone over the head of the Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, he's a Socialist. *The Croatian Democratic Union, although she's down as an Independent, she has been a member of the party since 1993. Nominally in Croatia, unlike in France, the President has less authority than the Prime Minister. Now Croatia is sending the Muslim horde back into Hungary....under Hungarian law they'll all be classed as illegal and can be deported, so it looks like Hungary will deport them back into Serbia where they came from last week.
15 posted on 09/18/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: sockmonkey

Heck I forgot.

It’s obvious that the Eastern European plan is to trap the Muslim horde in Serbia and Macedonia, two countries that aren’t in the EU.

I approve of this plan and they need to stand their ground with this, if not we’re doomed.


16 posted on 09/18/2015 11:25:34 AM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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