aight so european leaders got together to make decisions about the refugee situation and the bottom line is 1) refugees are gonna be detained outside of europe, 2) the detainment centers are actually named “kontrollierte zentren” in german which is not ominous or in incredibly bad taste at all, 3) private rescuers are gonna be charged for rescuing drowning refugees, 4) we pay countrues such as turkey or libya a lot of money to keep refugees out of europe, 5) outer european borders will be strengthened and frontex (border control) will receive more funding
so in short uhhh europe decided on killing and locking up more refugees; fun!
Be aware that both Amnesty and HRW work with governments and as a result they other limit themselves in what information they spread to avoid offending the states that they need to cooperate with to do their work. They also tend to be pacifist and legalist to the extreme, often ignoring violence against refugees because the refugees broke a law or used force to get across a border. So I’d say they’re not the best information sources.
I’m not a fan of the UN Refugee Agency for similar reasons. They work for the UN, that should really tell you enough.
America: *rapidly turns into a dystopian nightmare, committing rampant human rights abuses and starting internation trade wars with sworn allies, then blames Europe*
Britain: *self implodes in a Brexit shitstorm of its own making with no end in sight, then blames Europe*
The European Union has condemned rescue boats picking up drowning refugees in the Mediterranean, in a dramatic hardening of the bloc’s border policy that brings it in line with the continent’s anti-immigration populists.
After a summit in Brussels EU leaders backed the approach of Italy’s new government to the boats, suggesting the vessels should stay away and could be breaking the law by picking up those in distress.
“Desperate times at our southern border call for desperate measures on the other side:” That was the very loud message from right-wing leaders in the United States and Europe this week.
Their desperate measures shocked the world. The Trump administration’s policy requiring thousands of infants and children to be seized from their parents and held in detention left leaders and citizens aghast (and its most inhumane elements remain in place). On the other side of the Atlantic, we watched the new Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini order boatloads of migrant families turned back into the sea, following his call last year to deal with immigration with a “mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter.”
Most reasonable people agree that these are not humane ways to deal with what these politicians call a “migration emergency.” But too many people take their word that there actually is some sort of a migration emergency.
To be clear: There is no immigration crisis in 2018. Not in the United States, not in Europe, not in Canada.
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