Monday - January 10, 2011

Greece Downsizes Plans for Anti-Immigration Wall ….

I started to do this yesterday but got sidetracked.
Poor Greece. As if they haven’t enough self made financial grief, they’ve discovered they have a serious immigration problem.  Mostly illegal immigration.
So a week or two ago they said enough, they were going to crack down BUT ... apparently they have had to do a slight u-turn.

Meanwhile, Romania is really PO’d at France and Germany, and that govt. is threating to open the borders to illegals to flood the numbers that will eventually end up in Germany,France and most likely the UK as well. And Italy too.  Yeah. You read it correctly. They threaten to allow illegals because France and Germany are resisting the open border idea for Romania and Bulgaria, siting as their reason, the inability of both those countries to control crime and control the kind of people who are trying to come to the west.  Well, bravo France and Germany but unless some kind of agreement can be reached, there will be a flood of muslims, from Iran,Iraq, Afghanistan etc. As well as ... wanna guess?  Yup. Roma Gypsies. 

Western Europe is seeing an increase (if we believe the media and the govts. reporting) of a large number of criminal class and just shiftless people doing their best to come to the welfare states. The UK I believe being the most generous.  But it’s France and Germany (and now Greece) saying enough already. We need to stop the madness.  They do not think those open EU borders are so nifty at this moment, at least not the ones involving Romania and Bulgaria. Woo-Hoo.

But Greece has another problem and it’s with Turkey. Oh boy. When do the fire works start?

Be interesting to see how this recipe for self defense plays out over the next few months. 

Here’s a taste ...

Greece Downsizes Plans for Anti-Immigration Wall along Turkey Border

There are indications that instead of building a 206-km wall against illegal immigration along its land border with Turkey, Greece will construct a limited fence in one border section.

After in the last days of 2011, Greece’s Citizens Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis stated that the Greek government is considering fencing off its territory along its Turkish border to beat back the influx of illegal immigrants into the EU, on Monday new plan released by the Ministry, cited by DPA, indicated a project for building a 12.5-km-long and 3-m-high fence along the most problematic section of the Greece-Turkey border near the Maritsa river and the Greek town of Orestiada.

The Greek government seems to be backing away from its original plan, which Papoutsis described as similar to the anti-immigrant wall that the USA built along its border with Mexico, as international media and NGOs have slammed the idea over New Year’s weekend.

The only comments on part of the EU executive so far, the European Commission, have come from Michele Cercone, spokesman person for Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malstroem.

“Fences and walls have, in the past, proven to be really short-term measures that don’t help to address and manage migratory challenges in a more consolidated and structural way… [Greece] needs sound and long-term structural reforms and measures in order to better manage its border, address the challenges linked to migration flows and create a sound and efficient asylum system,” he said.

Cercone has pointed out that border control and the influx of illegal immigrants depend on the dialogue with the source and transit countries. He said the EC is negotiating with Turkey on the readmission of illegal migrants that entered the EU through its territory – even though an actual agreement is still not on the horizon.

In the period of just six months up till the end of November, 33 000 illegal immigrants have been detected crossing the Greek-Turkish land border. Most are from Afghanistan, Algeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Iraq.

Officials said over the weekend that, in 2010, an average of ‘200 refugees each day’ had crossed into Greece from Turkey.

Around 80 per of the illegal immigrants in the EU arrive via Greece. Large numbers then seek to reach Italy via ferry. There are currently an estimated 300,000 people living illegally in Greece.

Greece’s facilities for the detention of illegal migrants have been the matter of criticism by international human rights NGOs.

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I know that some of you folks are better at this then I am. So tell me. Have I read it wrong?  Greece has to defend itself on a decision aimed at defending their own borders?  Is that it in a nutshell?

Posted by peiper     on 01/10/2011 at 10:55 AM   
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