10-30-15
News from Europe:
1. Germany, overwhelmed, now says the economic migrants from the Balkans and Afghanistan must go home or be deported.
2. Greece, who for the last two years has surrendered the borders to just about anyone, now wants to establish checkpoints in Turkey to determine the real war refugees. Then, they want to transport them to Europe in an effort to bypass the smugglers and the dangerous boat trip.
Not bad ideas, but there is a big problem here.....this is not 2014.
I wish Merkel and her EU well on deporting the economic migrants, I support this. However, I do not think this will happen. If they did not have the strength to control their borders in the first place, I do not believe they will have the courage and will to do something more difficult...to forcefully deport those already here, who do not wish to go back. The shameless international media and UN will protest once they see "Germans" hauling migrants against their will onto trains and boats back to Turkey.
I believe this is the only alternative to the continued chaos and misery, but I just don't think Merkel has the stomach for it; she would rather just force others to accept "refugee quotas ", which would surely result in open defiance from Eastern Europe and the end to the EU as we know it.
Would it have been easier and safer for all to have sent the economic migrants home before allowing them to roam Europe in the first place? I find this task of finding and deporting these migrants here already a monumental and costly adventure.
I remain shocked to this day that Merkel and the EU did not have an orderly plan at the borders to properly identify the war refugees and send the others back immediately, as Tony Abbott did in Australia. One just cannot allow refugees to roam freely inside the borders without knowing whom
they are first. This is suicidal.
That being said, emotional reactions led to big mistakes, but it is what it is now, and forced deportation must be carried out. Let's just make sure we learn from past mistakes before we commit others, like the one offered by Greece now.
The Greece proposal would have made sense two years ago, but would be a colossal disaster if enacted now. Greece wants to establish checkpoints in Turkey, where 25,000 smugglers have been operating. They want to register those eligible in Turkey and transport even more refugees to Europe. I am not sure if Greece has been asleep, but the EU is already overburdened with refugees with over a
million already here. The EU has no idea who these migrants are, they still are not securing the borders, and more refugees are on their way. The EU has no more vacancy to bring more here voluntarily from Turkey.
Two years ago, if Greece and others would have secured their borders and forcefully stopped the smugglers and illegal migrants, there would be capacity to help those war refugees in need of protection. There would have been less tragedy at the seas as well. Then, it would have made perfect sense to establish checkpoints outside of the EU borders. But to invite more now in these present conditions is the same naive thinking that created this chaos in the first place.
I have written before about the definition of insanity and trusting those who have consistently shown poor judgement over and over again. I admire the people of Germany and Greece, but these two countries are led by leaders who have no credibility in solving this crisis.
Maybe the EU needs to take a closer examination of what Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia are doing. They do not have the problems of Germany; in fact, they have order and tranquility and the thanks of their people.
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