Thread: Near 100,000 Migrants Cross Mediterranean To Europe in First Six Months of 2017

Near 100,000 Migrants Cross Mediterranean To Europe in First Six Months of 2017


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by OLIVER JJ LANE1 Jul 2017

Despite efforts by individual nations and the European Union to get to grips with the migrant crisis, nearly 100,000 people crossed the Mediterranean in the first half of 2017.

While the significant figure is down on the same period in 2016 and shows the migrant deal with Turkey has been partially successful, the latest figures reported by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) show the problem is slowly shifting West.

Recording the total 95,768 migrants arriving in Europe by sea from January through to the end of June, the number entering Greece fell considerably in Greece but rose steadily in Italy and Spain, which has recently been reported as a “new migrant route”.

Of those 95,768, some 11,639 migrants had been “rescued at sea” between Saturday and Wednesday, the 24th to 28th of June.

Not all were so lucky. Many migrants are taken advantage of by ruthless people smugglers, who as well as raping and beating their “customers” also knowingly put them to sea on dangerous boats, knowing the majority will be picked up mid-voyage by European migration charities.

Some 2,196 people are known to have drowned in the Mediterranean in 2017 so far.

The new figures come just days after Italy threatened to close their sea ports to the migrant ferries operated by charities and NGOs, as the numbers arriving were overwhelming the country.

Although these numbers migrating to Europe may seem significant, taking the people smuggler’s boats across the Mediterranean is just one way to access Europe — and new figures reveal the enormous scale of migration worldwide. Breitbart London reported on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest statistics, which show five million migrants flowed into industrialised nations worldwide last year.

One of the most open to these migrants was Germany — of the 1.6 million people who applied for asylum in developed nations in 2016, 675,000 of them applied in Germany.

According to a leaked German security report that became public in February the supply of would-be migrants ready to follow the hundreds of thousands of their own countrymen who have already made the journey is not set to dry up. According to the secret paper, there are over six million migrants hoping to come to Europe in countries around the Mediterranean.

A similar report by the Austrian army has predicted Europe would see 15 million newcomers by 2020.


Near 100,000 Migrants Cross Mediterranean To Europe in First Six ...

Who is selling and providing these boats!

Shut them down!

Tow them back, unload them and sink the boats

Who is selling and providing these boats!

Blame hillary/obama for killing Gaddafi - he was the gatekeeper and now 6 years later his country is still in total chaos and is the reason for millions crossing the Mediterranean. Gaddafi never allowed his country to be used like that.

Then look to the same type of "religious" orgs that you see in USA housing illegals. Their CEOs often make a quarter of a million dollars a yr. We pay for that and you have soros orgs feeding funds too. Last but not least THE UN is redistributing the wealth and muslims around the world. We pay for them to exist and overbreed and little by little they will work and for less than natives.

Migrant crisis: Italy threatens to shut ports

• 28 June 2017

Italy has threatened to stop vessels of other countries from bringing migrants to its ports.

The warning came as Italy's EU representative, Maurizio Massari, warned in a letter to the bloc the situation had become "unsustainable".

Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has accused other European nations of "looking the other way".

An estimated 10,000 people are believed to have attempted the journey from North Africa in the past four days.

More than 73,000 migrants have landed in Italy this year, an increase of 14% on the same period last year.

• Aboard the Mediterranean's migrant rescue boats
• Pope Francis: Europe migrant centres are 'concentration camps'

Some 2,000 have died or are missing feared drowned, the UN's refugee agency says, the vast majority attempting the crossing from Libya.

Libya is a gateway to Europe for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa and also from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Syria and Bangladesh. Many are fleeing war, poverty or persecution.

Why is Italy reacting now?

The Italian coastguard takes the lead in co-ordinating rescue operations but many of the vessels run by non-profit groups sail under the flags of other nations including EU countries like Germany and Malta.

An Italian government source told Reuters: "The idea of blocking humanitarian ships flying foreign flags from returning to Italian ports has been discussed. Italy has reached saturation point."

Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said the Italian public were "exasperated" with the issue and a new long-term strategy was needed.

Would blocking rescue ships be legal?

Rules on disembarking are governed by international law and the EU office on migration said any changes to guidelines should give humanitarian groups time to prepare.

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea dictates that any ship learning of distress at sea must assist regardless of circumstances, and that the country responsible for operations in that area has primary responsibility for taking them from the ship.

It also clearly states that the relevant government "shall arrange for such disembarkation to be effected as soon as reasonably practicable."

For boats departing from western Libya, Italy is likely to be the closest port.

What has the reaction been?

The European Commissioner for Immigration, Dimitri Avramopoulos, met Italy's Mr Massari to discuss the crisis.

"Italy is right that the situation is untenable," he said, adding that the country's management of the crisis was "exemplary".

It was time for EU member states to "step up", he said, and contribute financial support to Italy if needed, along with aid to African nations like Libya to reduce the numbers of people leaving - a promise made in February.

"Now is the moment to deliver, and we will hold them to this," the commissioner said.

"In everything we do, we all have a humanitarian obligation to save lives... we cannot leave a handful of EU countries on their own to deal with this."

Medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said it had been calling for more support from the EU for some time, urging that "all the states should take part", Ansa news agency reported.

Has Italy raised concerns before?

Yes. In April, an Italian prosecutor claimed humanitarian charities were "colluding" with people smugglers in Libya, alleging that phone calls were made between the two parties.

Italy has seen more than 500,000 migrants arrive by boat since 2014.

The closure of a land route north through the Balkans has added to the pressure.

How lawless is Libya?

Libya has been in chaos since long-serving ruler Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in October 2011.

On Wednesday, seven UN staff who had been visiting a migrant detention centre in the western town of Surman were seized by gunmen as their convoy headed towards the capital, Tripoli.

They were later released unharmed to local security forces.

A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40437917

Originally Posted by Beezer

Who is selling and providing these boats!

Shut them down!

Tow them back, unload them and sink the boats

Drug cartels and ISIS.

Originally Posted by Judy

Drug cartels and ISIS.

And Turkey. Just like Turkey was the main supporter of ISIS in the beginning, they are also the main backer to the people smugglers by not only turning a blind eye to what they're doing, but also secretly supplying them with boats, just as they supplied ISIS with brand new toyota trucks and weapons, to overwhelm Europe with refugees. Erdogan even shamelessly used the refugees as a bargaining chip with Europe to blackmail Europe so he could strike a deal to get what he wants.

Like I said once before, Turkey is not our friend, and is certainly not a friend of Europe's.

turkey is involved with the spread of islam. The estimate by 2050 is that the majority of people living in Germany will be turks.

80% of Turkish Muslim Settlers in Germany Live off Welfare

Nicole, a German school teacher told me once, when she asks her students what they want to become in the future, the majority of Turkish students say, "State benefit receiver."

March 31, 2013
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Turks came to Germany as 'guest workers'. They were supposed to provide some "necessary cheap labor" and then leave. But it didn't work out that way.
And the topic has obvious implications for our own Gang of 8's guest worker plan, which is going to lead to non-workers bankrupting the social welfare system even further.

Three million Turks live already in Germany already, while 2.5 million of them have German nationality, and the majority of them are conservative Muslims.
Very few Turks in Germany have a regular job; about 20%. The other 80% live on the so-called Hartz IV (state social benefits). 70% of their children have no GCSE; they left school before they finished their basic education.
According to the German state benefit system, every adult citizen who possesses the German nationality, unemployed and cannot find an appropriate job, is entitled to get monthly 482 € ($627). Additionally, parents get for each child under 18 years old, 200 € ($261), plus all their monthly expenditures in terms of rent, heating, power, health insurance, and public transport.
"Amazingly enough some Turks who live on the generous state benefits can afford to buy a house or an apartment and drive luxurious cars like Mercedes or BMW." Says Klaus, a landlord whose tenants are a case in point.

That part is easy enough. Just like in the United States, you cash in by having a lot of kids. Bring over a whole bunch of family members, churn out some kids from polygamous marriages (the next frontier in marriage equality) and soon you're bringing in 10 grand a month)

Kamal (46 years old) and his wife Shadia (42 years old) have ten children under 18 and live on Hartz IV (the German social benefit system). They have a monthly net income of about 3000 €. In addition, all their spending on rent, health care, transport, heating, etc. are paid by the state.
Kamal never worked or had a regular job, never finished school, and never learned a profession. Now he claims that he is "ill." Klaus, the landlord of Kamal says, "The man is fit." He even confessed to Klaus that he lies when he says he is ill. "He told me once, 'Why should I work if I can live well without/'" Klaus quotes Kamal.
Kamal is obliged to regularly report his joblessness to the Federal Employment Office (Bundes Agentur für Arbeit) in his town. He does so when he is invited for a job interview. But he always alleges that he is "sick:" He allegedly has "unbearable pains in his back and joints." Therefore, he cannot take any job. The only one who knows the truth about Kamal is his landlord Klaus.
Klaus and many other Germans are outraged about Kamal and his like. "It is us, taxpayers who have to finance odd buggers like Kamal. This makes me sick." Klaus frowns at me.
On the other hand, Kamal's neighbour, Dieter works for a mail company. For working 8 hours daily, he merely get 800 € ($1000) at the end of the month. From this salary he has got to pay his rent and the rest of his expenditure. Left for him is something around 400 € ($500).

This is much worse than Cyprus. And this will eventually break Germany's back. Imagine millions of people living this way and reproducing at a much higher rate than the native population and the spending becomes completely unsustainable.

German citizens can enter Turkey with simply showing their personal identity card. Hence German Turks, particularly women, travel to Turkey and come back with a "leased" baby. They get the baby temporarily from relatives and claim at the German border that it is their baby who was recently born in Turkey.
Khaled, a Turk, told me that you can get "a false birth certificate" in Turkey for $10.
Back in Germany, the "new" baby is registered at the town hall administration, and the "mother of the baby" starts getting 200 € ($261) monthly.

And don't kid yourself. This happens here too south of the border.

Nicole, a German school teacher told me once, when she asks her students what they want to become in the future, the majority of Turkish students say, "Hartz IV Empfänger" (state benefit receiver). When she asked one of her students, "Why is that?" The girl answered, "My parents live on Hartz IV and lead an easy life. They sleep longer in the morning, and always have got enough money."
"The dream of having an Ottoman Empire is not dead among the Turks." Says Jalal, a Kurdish freelance journalist living in Germany. He added, "The Turkish establishment believes that the Turks in Germany constitute a valuable spearhead for the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire. What could not be accomplished by force in the 15th century might, many Turks believe, become a reality in the 21st century in Germany, the heart of Europe. Besides, don't forget that demographically, while the German population growth is almost null, it is even contracting, the Turks in Germany have an annual birth rate of more than 5%. Therefore, demographers assume that by 2050 the majority of people living in Germany will be of Turkish descent."

Welcome to the Welfare Caliphate built by the Welfare Jihad.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/18...iel-greenfield

article from 2013.......

Turkish immigrants in Berlin

By Eva Spirova February 8, 2013

Berlin is transforming from the “special zone” of the Cold War that it once was into a multicultural metropolis more typical of the twentyfirst century. The city’s social diversity already began increasing before the fall of the Wall, but greatly increased after unification in 1990. Today, the 13.3 percent foreign-born population share of Berlin is among the highest of all European capitals.

Turkish immigrants have been coming to Germany since the 1960s, but for many years Germans assumed the “guest workers” would return home one day. The country’s refusal to face up to the reality and the lack of a proper immigration policy led to today’s integration problems.



The history of modern post-war immigration started in the German Federal Republic of the mid fifties with the recruitment of labour, above all in the countries around the Mediterranean. In many areas of German industry workers were needed who could not be found on the German labour market. The illusion began on Oct. 30, 1961, with the signing of a labor recruitment agreement between West Germany and Turkey.

Similar agreements already existed with Italy, Greece and Spain, but the West German economy was booming and the demand for labor seemed endless. After receiving vaccinations and passing a medical fitness test, hundreds of thousands of Turks boarded special trains in Ankara and Istanbul and were taken to Germany. The workers arrived in Munich and were then distributed among the country’s industrial zones.

The government and the economy were ecstatic over the Turkish guest workers, who were “between 18 and 45, at the prime of their labor capacity,” boosted tax revenues and social security contributions and made a “substantial contribution to increasing production levels.”

German companies were mainly interested in semi-skilled or unskilled laborers for poorly paid, unpopular jobs on assembly lines and in shift work. Poor, remote regions of Turkey were the preferred recruitment areas. At the time, no one in Germany cared much about the fact that many of the new arrivals could hardly read or write, making it difficult for them to participate in German society. The guest workers were expected to live together in newly built dormitories near the factories where they worked, and return to their native countries after working for a few years.

Many Turks repeatedly delayed returning home. The economic and political situation was uncertain in Turkey, a country plagued by a series of military coups. Still, almost all of the workers assumed that they would eventually leave Germany and return to their families.



In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish “other.” Mandel examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other. She does so by juxtaposing the experiences of Turkish immigrants, Jews, and “ethnic Germans” in relation to issues including Islam, Germany’s Nazi past, and its radically altered position as a unified country in the post–Cold War era.

Mandel explains that within Germany the popular understanding of what it means to be German is often conflated with citizenship, so that a German citizen of Turkish background can never be a “real German.” This conflation of blood and citizenship was dramatically illustrated when, during the 1990s, nearly two million “ethnic Germans” from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union arrived in Germany with a legal and social status far superior to that of “Turks” who had lived in the country for decades.

Mandel analyzes how representations of Turkish difference are appropriated or rejected by Turks living in Germany; how subsequent generations of Turkish immigrants are exploring new configurations of identity and citizenship through literature, film, hip-hop, and fashion; and how migrants returning to Turkey find themselves fundamentally changed by their experiences in Germany. She maintains that until difference is accepted as unproblematic, there will continue to be serious tension regarding resident foreigners, despite recurrent attempts to realize a more inclusive and “demotic” cosmopolitan vision of Germany.



Approximately 470,000 people of non-German nationality from around 190 countries live in the 12 districts of Berlin. They account for approximately 13% of the total population. The percentage of the population with a migration background comes to roughly 25%. The four largest migrant communities are as follows: around 200,000 people with a Turkish migration background, approximately 100,000 people who are part of “Russian Berlin“ (this figure includes immigrants from the successor states to the Soviet Union, including Jewish quota refugees or ethnic Germans), approximately 60,000 people from the former Yugoslavia and its successor states and just under 45,000 people of Polish nationality.

For decades Turkish migrants in Berlin have established themselves in the city. An entire Turkish Muslim community has been established so that even Turks with little knowledge of German can survive. Muslims in some neighbourhoods dominate the city streets, increasing their control over individuals. For example, should a Turk visit a Christian bookstand and take something, they are likely to be stopped just a few meters away and be spoken to by a Muslim onlooker.

Sources:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-716067.html

http://www.berlin.de/lb/intmig/migration/index.en.html

https://berlindividedcity.wordpress....nts-in-berlin/

Originally Posted by artist

turkey is involved with the spread of islam. The estimate by 2050 is that the majority of people living in Germany will be turks.

I heard that many Turks talk about how they are finally going to conquer and take over Europe, not through warfare but through muslim immigration into Europe. Why do you think Erdogan, the president of Turkey, will do nothing to stop muslims from crossing over its border into Europe? He actually encourages this.

About 20 years ago, I worked with a German guy who came here to the U.S. when he was a young guy back in the 1960s. He said that in Germany, Germans call Berlin the capital of Turkey because of the extraordinarily large Turkish population in Berlin and Germany as a whole. These articles you posted correlate with what he told me about Turks in Germany. He said that Turks are very hated by Germans in Germany, and just like these articles, he said that most Turks in Germany are lazy good-for-nothing people who leech off of the system. The Turks are to Europe what illegal aliens are to the U.S.

And if Turkey's dream of being in the EU is realized, that will be the end of Europe as we've known it. EU membership will allow 80 million Turks to swarm into Europe. This will be the beginning of the Turkish and Islamic invasion and take-over of Europe.

We will have to do Extreme Vetting letting people in here from Europe.

And Dual Citizenship needs to be looked into and terminated!

Gosh, there are so many Africans who want to live in a European country. Maybe there is a better solution than bringing them all to Europe. Perhaps Europe could go to them. What if Europeans went to Africa and set up their own governments there? What could go wrong?