Europe-Middle East-Africa Refugee Crisis General Thread

[Beezer]

Sweden wants to deport 80,000 migrants over the next few years.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35425735

[Beezer]

7 guys, including 5 migrants, gang rape 17 year old girl in Belgium.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6910086/Five-migrants-among-7-young-men-who-laughed-danced-and-sang-in-Arabic-as-they-gang-raped-unconscious-girl-of-17.html

[Beezer]

Well, it's not like the French don't want to get rid of the Calais jungle migrants. It's just that Britain will have no part of it.

And yes, I agree immigration can have its upsides. But these are supposedly refugees, not immigrants. The "refugees welcome" crowd essentially wants to have it both ways. Place no restrictions on these people and their free movement cause they're refugees but then treat them like any immigrant (i.e. integrate them cause they will stay forever) when refugees actually have to head home eventually. I want Germany to have proper immigration laws like Canada and other places across the world. It's utter insanity to have immigration policies on ther other hand that consist of people racing to your borders.

Anyway, we've been through this issue countless times. Most data now indicates that the migrants will bring virtually no benefit to our economies. Here in Germany there is talk of the migrant crisis adding 0.5% annually to our GDP...hardly something to brag about when you have a population increase of close to 2%.

[Beezer]

Story about a Somali pirate who enjoyed torturing people now residing in Germany as a refugee: http://www.zeit.de/2016/04/piraterie-asylbewerber-somalia-verdacht/komplettansicht

[Beezer]

I suppose an alternative map illustrating migrant crime would be shut down pretty quickly...

Speaking of rape: "Algerian asylum seeker shouts 'if Allah wills it' while raping 25 year old German university student"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3440601/Algerian-sex-attacker-shouted-Inshallah-Allah-wills-raped-25-year-old-German-student-asked-enjoyed-it.html

[Beezer]

German bus drivers and conductors are increasingly attacked by migrants, especially from north Africa, if they dare ask whether they have a valid ticket. From the right-wing hate rag HuffPo (in German): http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2016/02/11/die-kollegen-werden-bespu_n_9209604.html

[Beezer]

I get it lefties, you don't want to be labeled as big bad Nazis, Nazis killed my great grandfather and great grandmother but it does not mean you should commit cultural genocide on your own people.

I agree with your point, but "cultural genocide" isn't an actual thing, and equating mass immigration with genocide is nonsensical.

I agree that genocide is a pretty strong word but at least here in Germany the left (mainstream, not radical) is pretty upfront about the fact that they see the eventual disappearance of German or even European culture and its replacement with something else as an objective, not some sad side effect let alone something to be averted.

[Beezer]

Well, this German regional MP from the Greens said that Germans no longer constituting majorities in Hamburg and other large German cities was a good thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KaFRbdXMI

[Beezer]

Fascinating. It feels like we are in the midst of a "normalization" of the German party system, ie people no longer care about being branded right-wing cause they are completely sick and tired of what's going on.

BTW, Austria's supposed to reach its migrant cap pretty soon. Then what?

[Beezer]

What some people apparently still don't get is that sharing the burden of sheltering refugees is completely pointless when most of them want to go to Germany, Sweden and the UK. Any sort of pan-European agreement would fall apart immediately.

See e.g.:

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