Thread: World View: Italy Begs for Help After 12,000 Migrants Arrive in Four Days

World View: Italy Begs for Help After 12,000 Migrants Arrive in Four Days

by JOHN J. XENAKIS30 Jun 2017714

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

• France struggles with hundreds of migrants returning to Calais campground
• Italy begs for help after 12,000 migrants arrive in four days

France struggles with hundreds of migrants returning to Calais campground

Migrants from Africa arrive in Italy on a rescue ship

In October of last year, France finally demolished the refugee camp known as “The Jungle.” It was populated by about 7,000 migrants who came there hoping to reach Britain, where they could apply for asylum. When the camp was demolished, they were given the choice of either being deported back to their home countries or of staying in some 300 temporary refugee centers across France, where they can apply for asylum.

However, many of them left Calais on their own, and went to the Grande-Synthe refugee camp in Dunkirk, which became known as “the New Jungle.” The camp had been built by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and included hundreds of wooden huts.

The camp opened in March 2016 as the first camp in France to meet international humanitarian standards, where migrant families could live in relatively dignified conditions in heated wooden cabins.

The Dunkirk camp had a capacity of 700 and was severely overcrowded, eventually housing 1,600. Furthermore, many of the new arrivals from The Jungle, who were mostly Afghans, did not get along with the original migrants, who were mostly Iraqi and Kurdish. There were multiple fights between groups of migrants of different nationalities, with some 600 migrants taking part in the fighting. In March of this year, the Grande-Synthe refugee camp, including all the wooden huts, burnt to the ground, leaving nothing but ashes. According to French officials, multiple fires must have been set on purpose.

So now, three months later, it is June, the weather is great, and hundreds of migrants are flooding back into Calais. Officials are refusing to build a proposed reception center for asylum-seekers to Calais, saying that it would only encourage more people to come.

According to France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, part of the government of the new president Emmanuel Macron:

We’ve seen this before, it starts with a few hundred people and ends with several thousand people who we can’t manage. That’s why we don’t want a center here.

Humanitarian non-government organizations (NGOs) are trying to feed the 400-600 migrants currently “living rough” in Calais, but complain that they are being harassed by Calais police. So 11 NGOs sued the local authorities, saying that they have “prevented” the distribution of food to hundreds of migrants.

The court rejected the request to set up a new emergency center to shelter migrants in Calais but also ruled that the migrants should be allowed to receive humanitarian add. Furthermore, judges ordered officials, within 10 days, to establish several drinking fountains, toilets, and showers for migrants who are “exposed to inhuman and degrading conditions” in the area. The judge said, “It is not possible to leave these people, who are in a state of complete destitution without any aid.” AFP (23-June) and France 24 and The Local (France)

World View: Italy Begs for Help After 12000 Migrants Arrive in Four Days

Quit rescuing them!

Put barges way out in the water...apprehend them...process them and send them BACK.

Stop the unrelenting invasion of our countries.

Migrant crisis: 'Hipster right’ group trying to stop rescue ships

By Yalda Hakim BBC News, Sicily

• 8 July 2017

Image copyright Proactiva Open Arms Image caption More than 80,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy this year.

They call themselves Generation Identity. Made up of mainly 20-something tech-savvy members, the Identitarian movement has been described as the hipster right.

Fiercely anti-immigration and anti-Muslim, its aim is to stop mass migration to Europe. With headquarters in Austria and France, the group may be small in size, but its message is starting to resonate in Italy - a country where sympathy for migrants is wearing thin.

As the number of people seeking to reach Europe rises again, Italy continues to be the major point of entry for those arriving illegally on boats - particularly in the south.

However, attitudes are hardening and now this new "alt-right" movement says it will do whatever it can to protect Italian identity and culture from outsiders.

'Economic refugees'



Since the start of 2017, more than 80,000 people have made the journey from Libya, across the Mediterranean, to Italian shores, the vast majority landing in Sicily.

Around 2,000 are thought to have died in the attempt, but with almost all other European countries closing their borders, most of the survivors end up staying in Italy.

The vast majority are not refugees fleeing war, but are considered economic migrants and mainly come from sub-Saharan Africa and as far as the Indian sub-continent.

Alarmingly, there's been a rise in the number of young girls from Nigeria who are forced into prostitution, while boys as young as 16 from Bangladesh are coming via Dubai and Libya looking for work.

"More than 90% of the immigrants coming here by boat are economic refugees," claims 20-year-old Viviana Randazzo, a newly-recruited member of the Identitarians, although official Italian statistics put the figure at 85%.


Image caption Viviana Randazzo says migrants receive preferential treatment "We Italians are also suffering from poverty. Yet we are not given the same treatment - our needs perhaps count even less than theirs."

Blame

Italy is feeling the full burden of these new arrivals and there are now concerns that anti-immigration activists are exploiting the crisis for their own ends, calling for the "remigration" of second and third generation immigrants and the closure of mosques.

The Identitarians point the finger of blame at aid agencies and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) operating close to the Libyan coastline, accusing them of essentially acting as a taxi service to Europe.

"I think these [migrants] are coming to Europe because they know someone will save them," the movement's Italy co-ordinator, Lorenzo Fiato, told me in Catania, on Sicily's eastern coast.

"You can't solve this problem by helping the human traffickers do their jobs, because they want to transport illegal migrants."


Image caption Lorenzo Fiato says the Identitarians want to defend Europe against multiculturalism The NGOs say they operate in co-ordination with the Italian coastguard and argue that they are there to save lives.

"[The people smugglers] don't need a 'pull' factor. They are pushing these people out come what may, and if we're not there, they will drown. We're not prepared to let that happen," says a defiant and frustrated David Alexander, from the charity Save the Children, talking to me in the western port of Trapani.

'Defending Europe'

This summer the Identitarian movement tried to stop a Medecins Sans Frontieres rescue ship from leaving port.

The stunt failed but the group has now managed to raise more than €70,000 (£62,000) in less than three weeks, which it says it will invest in its "Defend Europe" campaign.


Image caption Save the Children says the Vos Hestia has rescued 4,000 migrants since September 2016

Ultimately, this means the group will keep targeting boats run by NGOs trying to rescue the migrants. "We want to defend Europe against mass immigration and multiculturalism," says Mr Fiato.

"We think that in every city where multiculturalism is present, radical Islam and violence is also present.

"This is a different kind of migration. These are thousands of illegal migrants coming to our shores and flooding into our cities," he adds.

Image copyright Save the Children

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Italy has recently threatened to shut its ports to foreign boats full of migrants unless other European countries do more to help tackle the crisis. A deal has now been reached between France, Germany and Italy to tighten regulations on NGOs and develop a code of conduct.

This comes amid two ongoing investigations by the Italian authorities, who are trying to determine whether the NGOs are bringing migrants to Italy according to international maritime laws of saving lives, or whether they are merely assisting illegal migrants on their journey.

Sophisticated trade

Ambrogio Cartosio, the chief prosecutor in Trapani, said he felt that the NGOs were somehow encouraging the people smuggling trade.

"It pushes the traffickers to load the migrants on ever more precarious vessels. They can be sure that after a few miles, they will be picked up by the ships," he told me.

The buying and selling of people is big business and the human trafficking trade continues to become more sophisticated and organised.
It is estimated that this year a quarter of a million migrants will make the perilous journey from Libya to Italy, after the escalation in numbers which typically happens over the summer months. It's been described as Europe's graveyard but it's also now the only route available to them.


Image caption David Alexander says people would drown if aid agencies did not get involved "I think what is clear is that people will continue to do this, unless and until there is a safer, legal way to do it," says Mr Alexander.

"In the meantime, this tragedy will go on unfolding, and we will continue to pick up the pieces, and we will continue to get the blame for something that other people can solve."

While the crisis continues, so will criticism of the humanitarian effort. As will the message of intolerance.

And a solution? No end in sight.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40505337

You have to tell them no more, do not come here, stay away, stay put, stay in your country, if you come here you will be turned around and sent back and you will have wasted your money risking your lives to come here.

Italy has recently threatened to shut its ports to foreign boats full of migrants unless other European countries do more to help tackle the crisis. A deal has now been reached between France, Germany and Italy to tighten regulations on NGOs and develop a code of conduct.

This comes amid two ongoing investigations by the Italian authorities, who are trying to determine whether the NGOs are bringing migrants to Italy according to international maritime laws of saving lives, or whether they are merely assisting illegal migrants on their journey.

Probably NGOs funded by soros and others interested in Europeans paying for africa's overpopulation. And the globalists corporations see it as more consumers for their products on the European continent and the economic migrants will have citizen funded payouts monthly to buy more of their products. Cheaper labor too. And africa will receive more remittances; they won't take back any of their people either because they want the remittances. That is why mexico dumps their people here in the USA and fights for them to stay. Billions in remittances yearly!

'Defending Europe'

This summer the Identitarian movement tried to stop a Medecins Sans Frontieres rescue ship from leaving port.

The stunt failed but the group has now managed to raise more than €70,000 (£62,000) in less than three weeks, which it says it will invest in its "Defend Europe" campaign.

Wish them luck - very brave to speak out in EU. Geert Wilder of Netherlands spoke out similarly and was called before a tribunal and fined heavily. The gov'ts have for years been aiding and abetting migrants - even as they commit crimes, they are given a pass.

USA has been no better with years now of open borders and aiding and abetting by paying for birthing, schooling the illegals children, allowing them jobs, fake id's etc. Plus the refugee scam masterminded by the UN of forcing mainly muslim "refugees" that we have to pay for their livelihood, all their relatives and multiple wives too; and they are demanding and obnoxious. They belong on their own soil and if their men were not cowards, they could have a decent living at home.