Up to 500K Illegal immigrants to be rescued

Hikari Kisugi said:
We did not attack the sudan and eritrea. Although they are leaving from Lybia, few of them are Lybian. Parts of Africa are in midst if religious wars that no one cares about, to our shame, as it will allow further breeding grounds for Boko Harum, and similar Isisesque groups.
UN doesn't care, EU haven't the stomach to spend money or fight the fight.
Simpiler to take the refugees than attempt to deal with the problem.
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I think one thing we've learned in the past decade is that we can't fight other nation's wars for them. Africans need to defeat Boko Haram or at least show some willingness and ability to fight them first before we offer any assistance. Nor should we be taking in any refugees. That was an acceptable policy in the 90s/early 2000s when there were no major conflicts in the world but it is unsustainable now that the entire Middle East is turning into Mordor.
 
Plans to force wealthy European nations such as the UK to take in more refugees have been backed by Sweden, which currently takes in more asylum seekers per capita than any other EU nation.

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Proposals to ensure a more balanced spread of refugees across the EU are expected to be put forward by the European Commission in Brussels on Wednesday, alongside plans to increase legal means for migrants to travel to Europe.

The move, first reported in Britain’s The Times newspaper on Monday, aims to create legislation that would force all 28 member states to share responsibility for “mass influxes” of non-EU migrants during times of emergency.

Sweden’s Justice and Migration Minister Morgan Johansson has told The Local that he is “looking forward” to seeing the full Commission Agenda on the issue, and said media reports already suggest the EU’s policy-making body is “on the right track” at a time when “it is clear we have to improve the responsibility sharing within the Union”.

Sweden dealt with more than 81,410 asylum cases between March 2014 and March 2015, while Germany processed the greatest number in the EU: 247,635. By contrast, the UK dealt with 29,340, while the figure for Netherlands was 23,780.

“Our Common European Asylum System is not very common in a situation where a handful of Member States are taking the responsibility for over 90 percent of the asylum seekers,” he said late on Monday.

“For the Common European Asylum System to be sustainable in the long run, a more even distribution of asylum seekers within the EU is needed.”

Italy and Austria are among the other member states backing the proposals, while a spokesperson for the UK Home Office told The Times that Prime Minister David Cameron’s new Conservative government “will oppose any EU proposals to introduce a non-voluntary quota”.

“Mad and unfair” was the description Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave to the plan.

Germany is strongly in favour of the idea, having long pushed for quotas, while France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve also came out in support of the proposals on Monday.

“I think it is normal to share out the asylum claimants,” he said.

Under the reported proposals, the number of refugees sent to each EU country would in future be determined according to a formula which considers factors such as unemployment, economic performance, population size and the number of previous arrivals.

READ ALSO: The Local goes inside Sweden's largest immigration centre

It is estimated that more than 5000 migrants have died over the past year while making their way to Europe from war-torn nations such as Syria, Iraq and Libya, in packed boats travelling in dangerous conditions.

Sweden’s Justice and Migration Minister Morgan Johansson told The Local that he also backed the Commission’s proposals to secure a safer passage to Europe for refugees.

“The lack of regular channels to seek protection fuels smuggling," he said.

“Therefore we need to see a substantial increase in the use of resettlement on an EU-level. Sweden also wants the EU Commission to investigate other realistic possibilities for people to seek protection in the EU.”

In the meantime, Sweden is continuing to prepare itself for new arrivals.

Fifteen thousand more asylum places are expected to be needed in the Nordic country this year. To cope with an increasing flow of refugees, the Swedish Migration Board announced in March that it has more than tripled the maximum number of residents allowed at each asylum centre in the nation from 200 to 650.

EU leaders are set to discuss the quota proposals in Brussels when they meet on June 25th.
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I think all boats, once removed of people, should be scuppered and destroyed. No matter how much money these traffikers make, if they have no boats then their over time their operations will really start to flounder (pun unavoidable). There are not an unlimited amount of larger, seaworthy boats in these areas of the world, and I think a lot could be done to go through docks and coasts in these countries and take register and stock of every seaworthy vessel, including the owners and captains, and create a large database where all possible vessels that could transport migrants over long distances are accounted for.

Evangelion said:
But they're trying to escape misery, crime, poverty, violence, and deprivation...
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:D
 
matdom said:
Whats the point sending aid if they keep coming here.
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They keep coming here because we don't send/do enough to make up for the massive inequality that exists as a result of the developed world's action over the past 500 years. It only takes a basic understanding of migration theory to see that.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
They keep coming here because we don't send/do enough to make up for the massive inequality that exists as a result of the developed world's action over the past 500 years. It only takes a basic understanding of migration theory to see that.
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Sorry but I don't accept that "we" are responsible - if you look at what's happening in Eritrea for example, where a lot of these migrants are hailing from, that's nothing to do with us just an example of an extremely bad dictatorial government making extremely poor decisions.
 
The key to stopping the boats is undertaking proper intelligence and surveillance of where they originate from.

Your first contact shouldn't be when they are rocking up on your coast.
 
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Simple pick them up and ship them back, or tow the ships back to Africa, as long as they dont make it to a European shore then its fine. Look at the Aussy policy hard line over the years, but the message is getting across, there have been a reduction in ships getting to the them.
 
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