Most migrants crossing Mediterranean will be sent back, EU leaders to agree - Polidicks

[quote]Only 5,000 resettlement places across Europe are to be offered to refugees under the emergency summit crisis package to be agreed by EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday. A confidential draft summit statement seen by the Guardian indicates that the vast majority of those who survive the journey and make it to Italy – 150,000 did so last year – will be sent back as irregular migrants under a new rapid-return programme co-ordinated by the EU’s border agency, Frontex. More than 36,000 boat survivors have reached Italy, Malta and Greece so far this year. EU borders chief says saving migrants' lives 'shouldn't be priority' for patrols The draft summit conclusions also reveal that hopes of a major expansion of search-and-rescue operations across the Mediterranean in response to the humanitarian crisis are likely to be dashed, despite widespread and growing pressure. The summit statement merely confirms the decision by EU foreign and interior ministers on Monday to double funding in 2015 and 2016 and “reinforce the assets” of the existing Operation Triton and Operation Poseidon border-surveillance operations, which only patrol within 30 miles of the Italian coast. The European council’s conclusions said this move “should increase the search-and-rescue possibilities within the mandate of Frontex”. The head of Frontex said on Wednesday that Triton should not be an operation primarily aimed at search and rescue. Instead, the EU leaders are likely to agree that immediate preparations should begin to “undertake systematic efforts to identify, capture and destroy vessels before they are used by traffickers”. The joint EU military operation is to be undertaken within international law.[/quote] A lot more in the [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/most-migrants-crossing-mediterranean-will-be-sent-back-eu-leaders-to-agree"]Source[/URL] And thus, Fortress Europa is slowly coming to reality.

It's a start at least. Only time will tell if they will actually get sent back (resistance to deportation has often been succesful in preventing it).

[QUOTE=PatrickT;47578423]It's a start at least. Only time will tell if they will actually get sent back (resistance to deportation has often been succesful in preventing it).[/QUOTE] If this whole thing means some laws regarding migrants are changed, and they won't be protected anymore. I'm pretty sure the police will give no fucks if there's resistance, they'll send them out one way or another. This also means way more migrants will die on the way to Europe, since patrols will be only close to the continent now, and those that do will be processed, the trafficker that got them there arrested, the boat destroyed, and then the transport back to Africa will be assured. Some EU countries like Italy are also planning to actually send MILITARY abroad to Northern African countries, to make a blockade of sorts and try to catch traffickers while they still haven't left for Europe. [quote]Italy shut down the mission that saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants last year as other EU countries refused to pay for it. It was replaced with a smaller EU scheme whose main focus is to patrol the bloc’s borders, after countries argued that saving migrants encouraged more to attempt the journey. International organisations estimate that tens of thousands of African and Asian migrants are likely to attempt the journey every month, with the majority coming from Libya. Last year the death toll eventually reached 3,200. Italy’s defence minister also pressed the European Union to devise plans to stop the tide of migrants on smugglers’ boats in the Mediterranean.Roberta Pinotti said refugee camps should be set up in countries bordering Libya and human traffickers must be targeted with military intervention. “We know where the smugglers keep their boats, where they gather,” Ms Pinotti said. “The plans for military intervention are there.”She was speaking a day before EU leaders hold an emergency summit in Brussels called in the wake of the shipwreck off Libya last weekend.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Swineflu;47578444]If this whole thing means some laws regarding migrants are changed, and they won't be protected anymore. I'm pretty sure the police will give no fucks if there's resistance, they'll send them out one way or another. This also means way more migrants will die on the way to Europe, since patrols will be only close to the continent now, and those that do will be processed, the trafficker that got them there arrested, the boat destroyed, and then the transport back to Africa will be assured. Some EU countries like Italy are also planning to actually send MILITARY abroad to Northern African countries, to make a blockade of sorts and try to catch traffickers while they still haven't left for Europe.[/QUOTE] This is unfortunately what needs to be done. Allowing millions of uneducated, undocumented people who don't even speak the languages of their destinations to move to Europe every year isn't even remotely sustainable. Europe gains absolutely nothing from allowing it and chances are, these migrants aren't going to easily (if at all) integrate into society and become productive. It is extremely idealistic to say that European countries can and should help these people.

For once, I can agree with how the EU has decided, albeit, I have little hope they will actually pull through with this. Actions speak louder than words, as they say, and once I see this happening, I will believe it. [QUOTE=elfbarf;47578523]This is unfortunately what needs to be done. Allowing millions of uneducated, undocumented people who don't even speak the languages of their destinations to move to Europe every year isn't even remotely sustainable. Europe gains absolutely nothing from allowing it and chances are, these migrants aren't going to easily (if at all) integrate into society and become productive. It is extremely idealistic to say that European countries can and should help these people.[/QUOTE] Unless you're Sweden, in which case it's absolutely OK and any other nation not doing what Sweden does, i.e. open borders to immigrants, are clearly racist and should be educated in how Sweden acts.

[QUOTE=The fox;47578719]For once, I can agree with how the EU has decided, albeit, I have little hope they will actually pull through with this. Actions speak louder than words, as they say, and once I see this happening, I will believe it. Unless you're Sweden, in which case it's absolutely OK and any other nation not doing what Sweden does, i.e. open borders to immigrants, are clearly racist and should be educated in how Sweden acts.[/QUOTE] Sweden is probably going to try putting these people on planes or something because the swedish budget is built around <s>improving elderly care, schools and jobs</s> funding the refugees to live in Sweden. Welcome to the Red-Green mess. When the only times they dont lie about their budget plans is when they remain quiet, or when the Greens say they want to shut off all nuclear power and leave 50% of sweden unpowered.

So were not racist pieces of shit anymore for wanting a responsible immigration policy in our countries?