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    Angry 2 migrants are TRAMPLED to death in Lesbos as refugees stampede to make it to Europe

    Two migrants are TRAMPLED to death in Lesbos as refugees stampede to make it to Europe before Greece's 'one in, one out' scheme begins

    'One in, one out' scheme was agreed by 28 leaders and means some migrants face deportation on arrival in Greece

    Under the plan, refugees arriving in the country from today should be interviewed before some are deported

    Some 600 migrants on 12 separate boats are thought to have arrived in the hours after deal was meant to be in place

    But Greek authorities warned the process needs to happen gradually as they claim they do not have enough staff

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    LYDIA WILLGRESS FOR MAILONLINE and TOM KELLY IN LESBOS FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 11:57 GMT, 20 March 2016 | UPDATED: 00:15 GMT, 21 March 2016

    More than 600 migrants smuggled themselves onto a Greek island yesterday hours after the start of a landmark EU deal that is supposed to halt the influx.

    Two men, including a father of four, were trampled to death as desperate passengers stampeded to disembark one of the overcrowded boats arriving in Lesbos from Turkey.

    Others waved and cheered as they sailed in amid chaotic scenes that cast severe doubt over whether the agreement - under which migrants who illegally enter the Greek islands should be deported back to Turkey - can succeed.

    And in comments which exposed deep flaws in the new rules aimed at closing the main migrant route into Europe, many of the new arrivals admitted they had been warned about the promise to send them back but were determined to travel anyway.

    The mayor of Lesbos – which already has over 4,000 migrants – said he had ‘no idea’ if the new arrangement would work and was prepared to take up to 20,000 if it failed.

    The Greek government also admitted it would not immediately be able to start sending refugees back as it struggles to implement the key deal targeting the route which was used by a million people to cross the Aegean Sea into the EU last year.

    Spiros Galinos, the mayor of Lesbos, said he was given no warning over the sudden change in policy, which had led to unnecessary confusion.

    He told the Mail: ‘I have been suggesting this as a plan for a long time, but they suddenly announced without telling us.

    ‘We had no chance to get anything ready for it.

    ‘Today the numbers arriving have been about the same as they were previously so it has not had an immediate impact. Only time will tell if this changes.

    ‘I can currently take 7,000 migrants, but with help from the EU I could take 20,000, and this a possibility we must be prepared for as we try to help these refugees these people in every way we can.’

    The desperate dangers of the sea journey into Europe were underlined when screams broke out on one of the first boats arriving after the deal came into force at midnight on Saturday.

    Two men were pulled out unconscious and were later pronounced dead of suspected heart attacks following a stampede by passengers rushing to disembark.

    Shortly before the deadline arrived two little girls, aged around one and two, were found drowned off the tiny island of Ro during an attempted crossing to Greece from Turkey.

    But there were happier scenes on other boats arriving yesterday morning as elated migrants waved, cheered and smiled as their boats landed.

    Exhausted but relieved, the new arrivals wrapped their wet feet in thermal blankets as volunteers handed out dry clothes and supplies.

    Among the arrivals Syrian student Hussein Ali Muhammad, who said he knew of the new rules but had decided to come anyway.

    He said: ‘I hope to cross these borders. I don’t want money, I just want to complete my studies.’

    Under the agreement all migrants and refugees who cross to Greece illegally by sea from Turkey since yesterday should be returned once they are registered and their asylum claims have been processed.

    In return, the EU will take in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and reward it with more money, early visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations.

    Amid chaotic scenes yesterday Greek officials scrambled to evacuate migrants currently held in island camps to camps on the mainland.

    Terrified children were thrown to the floor as fights broke out over their identity papers as over 1,000 migrants in Lesbos boarded a ship for Kavala in Northern Greece.

    Turkey is understood to have demanded that all existing migrants held on the island before Saturday deadline were moved so that they were not returned with the new arrivals.

    At least 144,000 people, mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, have arrived in Greece so far in 2016 according to U.N. refugee agency data. About 60 percent were women and children.

    More than half landed on Lesbos, the island on the frontline of Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two.

    Some 1,150 people a day continued to arrive in Greece from Turkey this month.

    Greek’s migrant spokesman, Giorgos Kyritsis, admitted: ‘The agreement to send back new arrivals on the islands should, according to the text, enter into force on March 20.

    ‘But a plan like this cannot be put in place in only 24 hours.’

    Despite the chaos in Lesbos, Mr Galinos insisted British holidaymakers should not be deterred from visiting the island this summer.

    ‘The tourists areas remain exactly the same. There is no reason for anyone not to visit here as we have things under control.’

    Fifteen boats carrying 875 migrants arrived in Greece overnight despite a new EU deal coming into force to stem the exodus.

    Greek authorities revealed hundreds scrambled to enter the country as the 'one in, one out' scheme started at midnight.

    The deal should mean migrants arriving in Greece are interviewed before a decision is made into whether they will be allowed to stay.

    But officials today warned the process is not ready and said it may need to be implemented gradually as key details - including how migrants will be processed and returned - need to be worked out.

    Thousands of migrants are continuing to risk their lives by travelling by boat in a desperate bid to reach Europe.

    Around 300 migrants are thought to have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos in the first six hours of the deal, with more than 12 boats arriving on the island's shores.

    Four refugees are believed to have died while trying to make the journey on Saturday while dozens of packed dinghies landed on Lesbos after darkness. Two of the migrants had heart attacks while on the crossing.

    Harrowing photographs showed volunteers helping near-unconscious migrants off the overcrowded boats as they arrived at the shore, with children wrapped in blankets in a bid to keep them warm.

    Deportations under the deal, which was discussed in Brussels last week and is designed to stem the flow of migrants into western Europe, are now expected to start in April.

    Authorities said they are waiting for hundreds of security and legal experts, who are set to arrive in Greece to help enforce the agreement. Paris and Berlin have also pledged to send 600 police and asylum experts, but they have also apparently not arrived yet.

    A spokesman for the Greek government said on Saturday afternoon: 'The agreement to send back new arrivals on the islands should, according to the text, enter into force on March 20. But a plan like this cannot be put in place in only 24 hours.'

    A police source added: 'We still don’t know how the deal will be implemented. Above all, we are waiting for the staff Europe promised to be able to quickly process asylum applications - translators, lawyers, police officers - because we cannot do it alone.'

    While officials said it would take time to start sending people back, the SOMP agency coordinating Athens' response to the crisis said the hundreds who landed on Sunday faced certain deportation.

    A spokesman said: 'They will not be able to leave the islands and we are awaiting the arrival of international experts who will launch procedures for them to be sent back.'

    There are currently around 47,500 migrants in Greece, including 8,200 on the islands and 10,500 massed at the Idomeni camp on the Macedonian border.

    The prime ministers of Finland and the Czech Republic on Friday tweeted from inside the European Council negotiations to announce that the 28 leaders had given their approval to the arrangement, which was agreed after less than an hour of discussions.

    Prime Minister David Cameron faces a Tory backlash over the high price of the deal, which includes billions of pounds in aid and the fast-tracking of Turkey’s application to join the EU.

    It will also involve a controversial swap arrangement that, in return for those sent back from Greece to Turkey, will see the EU allow in an equal number of Syrian refugees from camps in Turkey – although Mr Cameron insisted none would come to Britain.

    Amnesty International called the deal a 'historic blow to human rights' with thousands of people protesting in London, Athens, Barcelona, Vienna and Amsterdam in opposition on Saturday.

    Even as they agreed the deal, Turkish officials said they had intercepted 3,000 migrants trying to make the crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos.

    A spokesman for European Council president Donald Tusk said that the agreement made clear that any removals would have to be 'in full compliance with international and EU law' and that there would be no 'collective expulsions'.

    He added: 'The cut-off date is March 20 - that is on Sunday. All migrants arriving after that cut-off date will be returned after individual assessment.'

    The agreement received backing from the United States, who said it was an 'important step' in the bid to curb the influx of migrants arriving in Europe through Greece.

    John Kirby, a state department spokesman, said: 'We strongly endorse action to shut down the illegal smuggling operations that prey on and exploit vulnerable migrants.

    'We commend language in the agreement affirming that all refugees deserve access to protection and which makes clear the agreement will be implemented in full accordance with EU and international law.'

    More than a million people entered Europe last year, many of them fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and other parts of the Middle East and Africa.


    Greeks say they STILL cannot deport migrants back to Turkey despite EU deal | Daily Mail Online






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    Don't be fooled; Greece is sending back a mere trickle of migrants while the millions waiting to descend on Italy are a human tsunami

    By KATIE HOPKINS FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 15:27 GMT, 4 April 2016 | UPDATED: 20:02 GMT, 4 April 2016

    They say history repeats itself.

    I just never thought we were stupid enough to allow the same thing to happen right under our noses twice within two years.

    I thought the deal was that we learned from the past and refused to make the same mistakes again in the present. In the same way I know not to marry a man twice my age or try and win a pretend job with a short man called Sugar.

    But as the Austrian defence force starts sending troops to its Alpine border with Italy, I see we have learned very little from the recent migrant invasion of Europe and destruction of our culture and values

    On the same day we started sending back economic migrants to Turkey from Lesbos, Greece, Austria acknowledged that it is sending troops to the Brenner Pass where a new route has opened up – from Libya to Italy.
    And the numbers of migrants on their way is truly awesome in size.

    If 2014 was a flood, this is the year of the Tsunami. And if you thought the last migrants were just mostly young, single men - this lot are almost exclusively so.

    Austria is preparing to defend itself. Italy is about to become the new Greece.

    And yet all you see on the news is a few handfuls of migrants, willingly sitting on a ferry to Turkey to start adventures new - as if the European Union has found a solution to the problem Merkel and the 'Migrants Welcome Muppets' created.

    The suggestion that migrants are welcome is deeply flawed. In 2014 a record-breaking 38,000 asylum seekers were accused of committing crimes in Germany. In Hamburg alone more than 55 wallets and purses are stolen each day, 90% by males aged between 20 and 30 from North Africa and the Balkans.

    Stifled by political correctness, the German authorities are playing down the lawlessness of migrants to avoid fuelling anti-migrant sentiment. The cover-up of the mass sex attacks New Years Eve in Cologne was a perfect example of the lengths the authorities would go to to protect those in the wrong.


    Influx: A map showing the routes migrants take into Europe, including the one from Libya to Italy

    The legal hurdles to deportation are ferociously high. To be kicked out of Germany you need to easily identifiable (despite lobbing your passport over the side of your dinghy en route to Greece) commit a crime, be sentenced to a prison term of three years or more and come from a country where they will pander to your every need on your return.

    In other words, make it to Germany and you are essentially a German for life.

    Last year we retched at the story of 50 men, women and children suffocated and decomposing in the back of a frozen-chicken lorry abandoned by the side of the road, dripping blood, stinking of death.

    Less than two years later will we be expected to react with some kind of shock when two hundred bodies are hauled lifeless from a shipping container en route from Libya to the Italian coast?

    And what will it take to turn national opinion this time? What picture will the newspapers use to melt your hearts?

    Last time it took the body of Aylan Kurdi to remind us that action ought to have been taken earlier. What will it take this time—a whole family? An even smaller child with an even more complicit father?



    Reinforcements: Austrian police officers clashed with pro-migrant demonstrators near the Italian-Austrian border
    yesterday. Austrian soldiers will be deployed to the area to ensure migrants don't enter the country


    Preparing to defend itself: Austrian soldiers will be sent to the border with Italy to stop migrants travelling from
    Libya reaching the country. Pictured, police officers clashed with protesters at the border yesterday

    What will motivate the Pied Piper of displaced peoples - Merkel - to sacrifice the safety of her people in an attempt to erase the sins of Germany's past?

    Like brainless lemmings, will we make the swift switch from anti-migrant sentiment to standing at train stations blowing whistles in welcome, Bob Geldof offering up spare rooms in some distorted display of snivelling self-sacrifice?

    The German Development Minister, Gerd Muller, says eight to ten million migrants are on their way; currently collecting on the Libyan coast, waiting for the human traffickers to organise the containers on ships to pack them in to.

    Make no mistake. Syrians are not just sitting at the border with Turkey waiting for something to happen. They are taking the long road and a different path to 'freedom'.

    I was interviewed by police under caution a few months back for suggesting these people are cockroaches - able to survive the worst mankind can throw at them. But I am yet to find myself disproven.

    As 260 willing souls leave Greek islands for Turkey under the eyes of the world’s press, eight to ten million more desperadoes are on their way to Germany a new route through the Med.

    America may even reject visa free travel for Germans and France due to the high rates of passport forgery by migrants. Italy, Austria. How much more will it take to admit Schengen has collapsed?

    Build your walls, close your borders and protect your children. North Africa is on its way.

    In March 8,405 refugees arrived in Italy. Earlier this week 700 migrants were rescued from 6 boats off the coast of Libya, and four bodies were found.

    History is just about to repeat itself. And lefties up there on the moral high ground have the perfect view to watch it all unfold.

    KATIE HOPKINS says Greece is sending back a trickle of migrants while millions wait to descend on Italy | Daily Mail Online

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