Posted on 01/04/2015 5:38:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The two “ghost ships” discovered sailing towards the Italian coast last week with hundreds of migrants – but no crew – on board are just the latest symptom of what experts consider to be the world’s largest wave of mass-migration since the end of the second world war.
Wars in Syria, Libya and Iraq, severe repression in Eritrea, and spiralling instability across much of the Arab world have all contributed to the displacement of around 16.7 million refugees worldwide.
A further 33.3 million people are “internally displaced” within their own war-torn countries, forcing many of those originally from the Middle East to cross the lesser evil of the Mediterranean in increasingly dangerous ways, all in the distant hope of a better life in Europe.
“These numbers are unprecedented,” said Leonard Doyle, spokesman for the International Organisation for Migration. “In terms of refugees and migrants, nothing has been seen like this since world war two, and even then [the flow of migration] was in the opposite direction.”
European politicians believe they can discourage migrants from crossing the Mediterranean simply by reducing rescue operations. But refugees say that the scale of unrest in the Middle East, including in the countries in which they initially sought sanctuary, leaves them with no option but to take their chances at sea.
More than 45,000 migrants risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy and Malta in 2013, and 700 died doing so. The number of dead rose more than four times in 2014 to 3,224.
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Does the _Resident know about this? *SPIT*
Send them back. Stat.
Those Muzzies are CLEVER bastiches.
“European politicians believe they can discourage migrants from crossing the Mediterranean simply by reducing rescue operations.”
What? Weren’t these the same hypocrites that criticized us for wanting to send Obama’s refugees back home .... something about human rights to live anywhere they want. I guess if you are for abortions, even to the point of aborting them after they are born, the “reducing rescue operations” wouldn’t be out of question.
Hang crucifixes around their necks as the price of admission.
Fingerprint them, give them a five minute trial charging them with illegal entry and then ship them back the same day — without giving them a penny.
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
Does the _Resident know about this? *SPIT*
Yes. Last year the UN wanted us to take 200,000 refugees from Syria. It quieted before the elections. It’s coming.
Also, obama has already okayed 100,000+ “refugees” from Haiti. Not much discussion of that either.
The UN wants, the UN wants, the UN wants....
WTF, are we no longer a sovereign nation?
FUN.
‘Camp of the Saints’
by Jean Raspail
google it.
Raspail’s book is about a flotilla of 3rd worlders flooding Europe by tramp steamer. And now it’s coming to pass 40 years later exactly as he wrote it.
In his novel he predicts that the authorities in Europe don’t have the will to resist. And that’s how Europe ends. Via a massive and spontaneous tsunami of third world immigration.
I figured something was up. Never let a crisis go to waste and make sure it HARMS America in some manner!
@#$%^&*!
I predict that many of those so-called refuges will wind up in the U.S. within a very short time. We can all blame odumbo for that one when it happens.
There’s no doubt. Bush brought loads of them in when he was Prez and Obama is of course many times worse.
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