Comments | ontd_political: Migrant crisis: UN says Europe is 'on cusp of self-induced crisis'

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Migrant crisis: UN says Europe is 'on cusp of self-induced crisis'

Mar 02, 2016 15:49

'Europe is "on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis" because of a rapid build-up of migrants on Greece's borders, the UN has warned.'

SOURCE.
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'Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in seven charts'
( Apparently 'compassion' and 'justice' are four-letter words... )

human rights, fuckery, europe, clusterfuck, race / racism, inequality, xenophobia, charts n shit, *trigger warning: racism

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eveofrevolution March 2 2016, 21:01:35 UTC

soleiltropiques March 2 2016, 21:27:38 UTC

Thanks! I'll fix it.

Also, is it just me or did the charts get borked once it got posted? (These now seem to get truncated for some reason...)

Thanks for your help.

eveofrevolution March 2 2016, 21:31:00 UTC

soleiltropiques March 2 2016, 21:45:19 UTC

Thanks so much for your help.

I managed to fix everything -the problem was that the source had weird formatting so I had to unindent everything manually. :-D

calinewarkwc69 March 2 2016, 21:34:41 UTC

This is an amazing post OP, I have really enjoyed it and learned a lot. I followed a lot of the source links too!

This is a global problem, are as the root causes I'm sure. Point 3 is really fucking me up though. Where are all those kids? I hope the USA does it's part, I know Bernie has advocating for taking refugees pretty open endedly, and Hillary has as well, but I think she does have a number. I think it's 60 or 65,000? don't quote me on that though.

Also, once I read it, I realized that we haven't heard anything out of Australia-

soleiltropiques March 2 2016, 22:26:50 UTC

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

With regards to the children, it was stated in the UK newspaper The Guardian (the quote is from Europol's chief of staff) that a sophisticated pan-European “criminal infrastructure” is now targeting refugees. “It’s not unreasonable to say that we’re looking at 10,000-plus children. Not all of them will be criminally exploited; some might have been passed on to family members. We just don’t know where they are, what they’re doing or whom they are with.”

What is really horrible is that, from what I can see, governments knew that there were unaccompanied minors for some time and are only waking up now to do something to protect them.

(Comment edited for some minor tense issues. :)

screamingintune March 2 2016, 21:47:18 UTC

great post. It's such a sad and grave situation. The US should really be stepping up but this issue was immediately turned into a political football the second it emerged.

I know Obama did speak on it some time ago, months, saying that the US has always been a sanctuary to refugees (which... well, not true, but it's a nice thought).

I honestly don't know if Sanders or Clinton have spoken on it, if they have, it's been very much a side issue as economic/domestic policy has seemed to dominate the campaign on the Democratic side.

soleiltropiques March 2 2016, 22:40:43 UTC

Thanks! Glad you liked the post (the BBC has really great coverage of this issue).

And yikes for the political football. I had heard the Repubs' comments, but I hadn't heard about the Dems. I hope they do something about this.

I'm actually Canadian, and we recently changed governments which has been quite a welcome change. The new Liberal government are the ones who brought in 25,000 Syrian refugees since their election last October.

With regards to the current Australian government's position I'm not sure, but former Australian PM Tony Abbott's (NB: he was PM until Sept. of 2015) response to the migrant crisis is that Europe should do what his government did (they basically had a very harsh policy of stopping boats with migrants and refugees from reaching Australia, they deployed their navy to do this). (Link on this here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/opinion/australias-brutal-treatment-of-migrants.html)

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soleiltropiques March 2 2016, 22:43:16 UTC

"Overall how misinformed this country is about refugees is really sad. My friend tried to show her mother the Samantha Bee refugee videos about how hard it would be for a terrorist to sneak in and all she told my friend was something like 'look what happened to Paris.' And she's a democrat!!"

Yikes. That's terrible. Thanks for the info, also. :)

mimblexwimble March 2 2016, 23:45:24 UTC

Hatred of Muslim or potentially Muslim people (aka terrorists) seems to be an area that often unites people across party lines. :/

soleiltropiques March 4 2016, 02:58:34 UTC

Yes. It's rather disgusting how racist white liberals can be.

ms_mmelissa March 2 2016, 22:52:45 UTC

Canada’s new government has taken in 25,000 Syrians in a few months which is laudable. Hopefully they will continue to try to help and not forget the issue now that they have fulfilled their campaign promise. (And let's hope this will not be limited to Syrians as their are many, many migrants from other countries.)

IA. Canada is by no means perfect but I think the general atmosphere has been to embrace the Syrian refugees. I tried to sign up with my cities private refugee help centre and was turned down because they had too many people. The overall climate has been overwhelmingly positive so I hope we continue to accept refugees, especially as more countries seem to turn them away.

The whole thing is just awful.

soleiltropiques March 4 2016, 03:02:07 UTC

That's pretty amazing. :)

I'm from Quebec, and I thought it was pretty amazing that our provincial prime minister announced he would take a Syrian family into his home (this lasts a year and takes place so that refugees can have a place to live until they can get on their feet).

Mind you,our provincial PM is a total asshat in most matters, but that was pretty awesome.