Stranded Migrants: 'Where Are We Going To Go?'

[Sally]

One place they had better not try to get to is Brazil. Brazil is not giving out work permits so that refugees there have to work illegally to survive.


Stranded Migrants: 'Where Are We Going To Go?'
Monday, 7th March 2016 21:15

We found two Syrian families trooping through a corn field this morning.


They told us that they'd been on the road for weeks, but we knew that when they passed the next corner, they would find their way blocked - by a double-fence rung with barbed wire, on the Greek-Macedonian frontier.

In fact the obstacles for the Hasan and Suliaman families from the Syrian city of Qamishly are only mounting, with officials and politicians in Brussels declaring the 'migrant road' in the Balkan states, officially shut.

Still, father of five Saed Suliman was defiant: "We?ll sit at the border then, what can we do? Our country?s at war.

"We?ve been robbed by taxi drivers - we had to take the bus twice.

"We took more taxis - the police stopped us - and we have nothing left.

"Tell me, where are we going to go?"

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[Alexander the Arrogant]

This is where countries like the U.S., England, France, Germany, and Russia all need to be taking in Syrian refugees. There is a greater chance of radical Muslims being converted if these countries turn them away.

 

[waltky]

The refugee crisis in Europe is still there...

Out of sight, out of mind? Europe's migrant crisis still simmers
Thursday 11th August, 2016: A year after hundreds of thousands of refugees snaked their way across southeastern Europe and onto global television screens, the roads through the Balkans are now clear, depriving an arguably worsening tragedy of poignant visibility.

Europe's migrant crisis is at the very least numerically worse than it was last year. More people are arriving and more are dying. But the twist is that, compared with last year, a lot of it is out of sight. Take the border between Greece and Macedonia. Summer crops have replaced the city of tents at the border outpost of Idomeni, even if some locals are convinced there is an unseen population hiding in the surrounding forests, waiting for smugglers to assist them on their onward journey. The tiny Greek village was a focal point of the migrant flow north towards Germany and other wealthy countries, with thousands of refugees squatting for months waiting for sealed borders with Macedonia to open Elsewhere in the Balkans, a Reuters photographer, revisiting the people-packed locations where he and his colleagues captured last year's diaspora, found empty roads, unencumbered railway tracks and bucolic countryside.

The comparison is stark. To see the pictures, click: Migrant routes a year on More than one million people fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan made their way to Europe last year, with the majority of them crossing the precarious sea corridor separating Greece and Turkey, the temporary home for more than 2 million refugees displaced from Syria. They came carrying their worldly belongings in plastic bags and hauling babies on weary shoulders, a visual exodus of the kind not seen in Europe since the end of World War Two. Many have since reached their destination in northern Europe, but with the borders closed and the European Union now attempting to contain the numbers, thousands are stuck at holding centres in Greece and Italy. They are not so nearly visible there - nor are the ones still coming.

VISIBILITY DOWN, ARRIVALS UP

According to data from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), arrivals are up 17 percent on last year, stoked mainly by a spike at the start of the year through Greece. Deaths among those trying to get to Europe, mainly due to drowning, are up more than 15 percent. "This is not a blip," said David Miliband, a former British foreign minister who now heads the International Rescue Committee, an aid group set up by Albert Einstein - himself a refugee - to rescue Europeans before the outbreak of World War Two. "The forces that are driving more and more people from their homes - weak states, big tumults within the Islamic world, a divided international system .. None of these things are likely to abate soon." Some of the mantle of accepting huge migrant flows that was carried by Greece last year and the beginning of this one has been taken up by Italy. This follows a resurgence of migrant flows from northern Africa. More than 140,000 asylum seekers are now housed in Italian shelters, a seven-fold increase on 2013, with the migrant crisis in its third year.

In Greece, where arrivals plunged in the wake of an accord between Turkey and the EU to stem the flow in March, an estimated 57,000 migrants were still stuck in the country by Aug.8. Campaigners say the accord has lulled policymakers into a false sense of accomplishment by allowing them to believe that Europe's migration problem has been solved. "By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it," said Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe director at Amnesty International. "The crisis is as big as ever, and as yet unsolved by governments," she told Reuters. IOM data says that 258,186 people arrived in Europe by the end of July, compared with 219,854 over the same period in 2015. There were 3,176 fatalities by Aug. 7, outpacing the 2,754 who died in the first eight months of last year, a slightly longer period. "Its absolutely incredible because if you think about the panic this caused last year and the incentive there was to really get some policy changes in place, nothing has happened," Van Gulik said.

Out of sight, out of mind? Europe's migrant crisis still simmers

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As migrants pile up at Swiss-Italian border, Amnesty warns children at risk
Thursday 11th August, 2016: Amnesty International warned of a buildup of migrants on Italy's border with Switzerland and demanded clarification from Swiss authorities over reports by children that they had been sent back when trying to join their parents there.

Switzerland said the buildup was due to an influx of African migrants seeking passage to north European countries such as Germany. Any individual requesting asylum would be granted the opportunity. Several hundred migrants have been sleeping near the train station in Como, Italy, since July after a Swiss clampdown on crossings. "We're concerned about reports from minors who by their own accounts were sent back to Italy at the Swiss border and were prevented from joining family members in Switzerland," Amnesty International Switzerland said in a statement on Tuesday. "If a minor has family members in Switzerland who could care for her or him, ultimately Switzerland should process that asylum request," the agency added.

Some two-thirds of the nearly 7,500 migrants who reached Switzerland via the southern canton of Ticino have been turned back since early July, a steep rise from the one in seven denied entry earlier this year. That proportion was still rising in recent weeks. Swiss authorities said this was due to an influx of people - mainly from Eritrea, Gambia and Ethiopia - wishing to transit Switzerland from Italy to Germany or other northern European countries, which requires a valid permit.

But any individual requesting asylum in Switzerland - or communicating a desire to do so to border guards - would be granted the opportunity, customs and migration authorities said. That practice hadn't changed in recent weeks, they said. Martin Reichlin of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) said he would expect any child arriving at the border and attempting to join relatives in Switzerland to be delivered to the care of his organisation.

Authorities have a responsibility to inform minors of their rights, Amnesty said, and a systematic return of children would be incompatible with the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child. "Recognising the precarious circumstances for refugees in northern Italy, it's unacceptable to turn away especially vulnerable people," Amnesty said. Migrants turned back at the French and Swiss borders are beginning to pile up in Milan, the city's mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said on Tuesday. More than 3,000 migrants in transit to other European countries were stranded in Italy's financial capital.

As migrants pile up at Swiss-Italian border, Amnesty warns children at risk

 

[Phoenall]

One place they had better not try to get to is Brazil. Brazil is not giving out work permits so that refugees there have to work illegally to survive.


Stranded Migrants: 'Where Are We Going To Go?'
Monday, 7th March 2016 21:15

We found two Syrian families trooping through a corn field this morning.


They told us that they'd been on the road for weeks, but we knew that when they passed the next corner, they would find their way blocked - by a double-fence rung with barbed wire, on the Greek-Macedonian frontier.

In fact the obstacles for the Hasan and Suliaman families from the Syrian city of Qamishly are only mounting, with officials and politicians in Brussels declaring the 'migrant road' in the Balkan states, officially shut.

Still, father of five Saed Suliman was defiant: "We?ll sit at the border then, what can we do? Our country?s at war.

"We?ve been robbed by taxi drivers - we had to take the bus twice.

"We took more taxis - the police stopped us - and we have nothing left.

"Tell me, where are we going to go?"

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Stranded Migrants: 'Where Are We Going To Go?'

That is easy to answer..............................BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND LEARN HOW TO FIGHT