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Erdogan urges Turks in Europe to have 5 children

Associated Press  /  March 17, 2017

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks living in Europe to have at least five children, saying it would be the best response to Europe's "injustices."

Erdogan made the comments Friday while campaigning in the city of Eskisehir for a referendum that would usher in a presidential system and enhance his powers.

The Turkish leader has unleashed scathing rhetoric toward European nations — especially the Netherlands — after Turkish ministers were prevented from carrying out campaign meetings there.

On Friday, Erdogan told Turks in Europe: "Go live in better neighborhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses. Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you."

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On 11/13/2016 at 8:53 AM, kscarbel2 said:

Refugees held in Australian offshore detention to be resettled in US

The Guardian  /  November 12, 2016

Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees [economic migrants] on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in the United States (Why ???)

The Australian government has announced a landmark “one off” resettlement deal to the United States for refugees held at Australia’s remote offshore detention facilities on Nauru and ManusIsland.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the immigration minister Peter Dutton announced on Sunday that will see some refugees on ManusIsland and Nauru will be resettled in the United States.

“I can now confirm that the government has now reached a further third party resettlement arrangement,” Turnbull said. “The agreement is with the United States. It is a one-off agreement. It will not be repeated. It is only available to those currently in the regional processing centres.”

“It will not be available to any persons seeking to reach Australia in the future. Our priorities is the resettlement of women, children and families.”

There is considerable uncertainty over how many refugees will be eligible for the resettlement deal with the United States. The remaining refugees on Nauru will be eligible for 20 year temporary visas on Nauru.

Turnbull stressed that vulnerable asylum seekers - including family groups on Nauru - would be prioritised. The assessments would be contingent on vetting by the United States Homeland Security agency.

He said that the scheme would be endorsed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. A statement from the UNHCR said of the deal it was “not a party to it” and had no formal role in processing.

Australia’s opposition leader Bill Shorten also offered his cautious support for the resettlement deal.

“It has taken the government three plus years to negotiate this deal, but we are pleased if it is an end to indefinite detention,” Shorten said.

“We will certainly in principle work with the government. But we do welcome this. We do want to see people moved out of these facilities.”

Speculation the Australian government was preparing to finalise a resettlement deal with the US was sparked by the announcement in September it would take refugees from camps in Costa Rica.

Labor has opposed the measure, labelling aspects of the plan “ridiculous” because it would prevent a refugee resettled in a third country from coming to Australia as a tourist or on a business trip.

Among those on Manus and Nauru are people from Iran, Syria, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iraq, as well as some who are stateless.

Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017

It is a dumb "deal". Why is Trump flip-flopping and now allowing these "illegal immigrants" to bypass our immigration process and enter the US???

In February, Trump accused Australia of seeking to export the “next Boston bombers.”

“I don’t want these people,” Trump told Turnbull on the phone.

Now two months later, Trump suddenly decides these same illegal immigrants [to Australia] will make acceptable US residents.

They elected to attempt to illegally immigrate into Australia. Oz doesn't want criminals.........do we?

If Australia doesn't want them, for known reasons, why do we?

Send them back to Iran, Syria, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iraq.

As Jeff Sessions said last week:

" Come lawfully. Wait your turn, make your application and it will be evaluated. And if you're accepted, come. But don't come illegally."

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US to honor 'dumb' Australia migrant deal

BBC  /  April 22, 2017

US President Donald Trump once called the deal, which was agreed under his predecessor, "dumb".

The agreement allows for 1,250 asylum seekers to Australia to resettle in the US.

In return, Mr Turnbull's administration has agreed to resettle people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador who have sought asylum in the US.

The deal would be honored, visiting Vice-President Mike Pence said after talks with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull.

Australia has refused to accept the asylum seekers, most of whom are men from Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, and instead holds them in offshore detention centres on the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

 

 

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Sharia law is a quick fix, the Muslim faith isn't. Since sharia is a political system, and not a defined religion, you can mandate that it be denounced by an immigrant and the organizing made illegal because of it's unethical, inhumane, often illegal, mandates.

Do a google on how many sharia courts are currently active in England. They chose not to nip it in the bud. Liberalism is the driving force behind the mistake.  

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Israel to shut migrant centre and deport Africans

AFP  /  November 18, 2017

Jerusalem - Israel's cabinet voted on Sunday to close a migrant detention centre, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement to deport 40,000 Africans who entered the country illegally.

Ministers unanimously approved plans to shutter the Holot centre in southern Israel and gave migrants a three-month deadline to leave the country or face deportation, said the interior and public security ministries.

"The infiltrators will have the option to be imprisoned or leave the country," the public security ministry said in a statement.

Israeli official figures from June 30 show a total of 38,043 African migrants in the country.

They include 27,494 Eritreans and 7,869 Sudanese, and their presence in south Tel Aviv has raised discontent among Israelis there and elsewhere.

Speaking ahead of Sunday's vote, Netanyahu noted that after building a fence on the Egyptian border and deporting some 20,000 African migrants through various deals, Israel has reached the third stage of its efforts -- "accelerated removal".

"This removal is taking place thanks to an international agreement I reached that enables us to remove the 40,000 infiltrators remaining, remove them without their consent," he told ministers.

"This will enable us to close down Holot and allocate some of the large funds going there to inspectors and removing more people," said Netanyahu.

Holot, an open facility in the desert that can host 1,200 migrants who are allowed to leave to work during the day, would be closed three months from December 16, according to the decision.

A public security ministry spokesman said an extension to that deadline would be set if necessary.

Ahead of the vote, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Holot had become "a hotel for infiltrators at the tax-payers' expense that does not encourage their exit" and costs 240 million shekels ($68 million, 58 million euros) a year.

In a Twitter statement, Erdan however stressed the closure of Holot was conditioned on "us seeing that the policy of removing infiltrators to a third country was indeed taking place."

Neither Erdan nor Netanyahu gave details about the deal and the third country.

Israel tacitly recognises the Sudanese and Eritreans cannot be returned to their dangerous homelands, so it has signed deals with Rwanda and Uganda, which agree to accept departing migrants on condition they consent to the arrangement, according to activists.

US ending temporary permits for 60,000 Haitians

Associated Press  /  November 21, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation.

The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home.

"Since the 2010 earthquake, the number of displaced people in Haiti has decreased by 97 percent," the department said. "Haiti is able to safely receive traditional levels of returned citizens."

Advocates and members of Congress from both parties had asked the Trump administration for an 18-month extension of the program, known as Temporary Protected Status. Haitian President Jovenel Moise's government also requested the extension.

While Haiti has made advances spurred by international aid since the quake, the Caribbean nation remains one of the poorest in the world. More than 2.5 million people, roughly a quarter of the population, live on less than $1.23 a day, which authorities there consider extreme poverty [Not our problem....life is what you make it].

The United Nations last month ended a peacekeeping mission in Haiti that, at its peak, included more than 10,000 troops. Its new mission is comprised of about 1,300 international civilian police officers and 350 civilians who will help the country try to reform a deeply troubled justice system.

The Homeland Security Department made its announcement 60 days before temporary status for the Haitians is set to expire. In May, the agency extended the program for only six months instead of the customary 18, and urged Haitians under the program to get their affairs in order and prepare to go home.

The temporary status covers some 435,000 people from nine countries effected by natural disasters or war, who came to the U.S. legally or otherwise. Days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, President Obama granted the 18-month protection status for Haitians in America who would otherwise have to go home. Obama renewed it every time it ran out.

Monday's decision doesn't affect thousands of Haitians who were taken in by Brazil and other South American countries after the earthquake and began making their way to the United States last year. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 6,424 Haitians showed up at border crossings with Mexico during the 12-month period ended Sept. 30, up from only 334 a year earlier. They were generally paroled to live in the United States on humanitarian grounds [Throwing established immigration policy to the curb].

Since taking office, Trump has ended temporary permit programs for Sudan and Nicaragua.

Trump has postponed until next July a decision on how to deal with a similar program for 86,000 residents from Honduras.

Maryland Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California, last week unveiled new legislation to protect undocumented [illegal] immigrants living under temporary protected status. It would make immigrants under the program eligible to apply for legal permanent residency after three years.

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Imagine a political party so inherently corrupt it tries to illegally import voters too poor, uneducated, nieve, desperate and vulnerable to disagree with it’s views..... all in the spirit of staying solvent?

Drain the swamp! 

2 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

Imagine a political party so inherently corrupt it tries to illegally import voters too poor, uneducated, nieve, desperate and vulnerable to disagree with it’s views..... all in the spirit of staying solvent?

Drain the swamp! 

I again suggest, political parties have no purpose whatsoever and should be banned. Rather than compliment government, parties only serve to convolute and corrupt. Each elected government representative, an employee of his state's people, should focus on representing the will and desire of those people.....and nothing more.

Draining the swamp in DC is kind of like the CPC removing all the corrupt cadres......once done there would be no one left.

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I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame" (right-wing populism spreading across the Continent).

“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message — ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ — because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.”

Hillary Clinton - November 22, 2018

On 11/23/2018 at 8:33 AM, kscarbel2 said:

I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame" (right-wing populism spreading across the Continent).

“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message — ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ — because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.”

Hillary Clinton - November 22, 2018

So  starts her campaign for 2020 Presidential run...

"OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK"  Thomas Edison

 “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’

P.T.CHESHIRE

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