Unstoppable migration?

Yes but cameras weren't so quick to show that as they were all the poor children who had to be let in for their safety most of whom once in disappeared. Those are not migrants in calais they are criminal **** and the last thing we need is any of them getting over here.

[Osem]

But I'm sure that when they get here they'll forget all that and become model citizens and contributors to our society...

[Taf]

5 large rubber dinghies full of "migrants" picked up from the Med today.

[Osem]

Thousands of people are faking living in Ireland to get family members into the UK, a BBC investigation has revealed.
The scam involves UK nationals who want to bring in close relatives from outside the European Economic Area.
Police said immigration advisers, lawyers and accountants were behind the multi-million pound fraud.
The UK government is warning it is a growing industry that exploits European free-movement rules.
The scam uses the so-called Surinder Singh route, named after a historical immigration court case.
If a UK national lives and works in another European country for a period of time, they can be considered under EU rather than British law on their return.
That means that if they have been joined by a non-EEA spouse, they are allowed to bring them into the UK without having to meet certain immigration requirements that apply to Britons.
This route has grown in popularity since 2012, when the government introduced a minimum income a UK citizen had to earn before they could bring a spouse from outside the EU into the UK.
Each year, about 20,000 non-European family members come into the UK this way.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38597384

Yet more holes in our colander like border controls.

[Taf]

Originally Posted by Osem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38597384

Yet more holes in our colander like border controls.

This shows that lawyers have the system wrapped around their little fingers.

And as it would take more lawyers (paid from the public purse) to sort it out, I feel the loophole will never be closed.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Taf

This shows that lawyers have the system wrapped around their little fingers.

And as it would take more lawyers (paid from the public purse) to sort it out, I feel the loophole will never be closed.

It's no coincidence that there are so many lawyers in Parliament.

[Osem]

Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country's values should leave.
"Act normal, or go away," he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls.
The Dutch felt increasingly uncomfortable with people who abused the very freedom they came in search of, Mr Rutte argued.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38718286

Of course if they'd really believed it and better still applied that 'test' more stringently in the past before doling out asylum to all and sundry, maybe the EU would have less of a problem with intolerance and extremism than it does now...

To be honest i think the EU wants extremism and intolerance would make a wonderful diversion and i cannot think of another reason for the ridiculously handled mass imigration into the EU that's been going on for quite a while despite plenty of evidence european citizens didn't want it.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

To be honest i think the EU wants extremism and intolerance would make a wonderful diversion and i cannot think of another reason for the ridiculously handled mass imigration into the EU that's been going on for quite a while despite plenty of evidence european citizens didn't want it.

Well it's either gross ineptitude or there's a 'plan' of some sort it seems to me. Whatever the real reason, it's a very worrying situation and doesn't bode well for the EU's stability.

[Osem]

Turkey has threatened to cancel a deal with the European Union on taking back migrants who cross over to Greece.
Turkish officials are unhappy about a decision by the Greek Supreme Court not to extradite a group of eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup in July.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described the ruling as a "political decision" and demanded a retrial.
An EU spokeswoman said the body was confident the migrant deal would hold.
The three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors fled in a helicopter to Greece after last July's coup attempt in Turkey.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38772117

[Osem]

Austria's ruling coalition has agreed to prohibit full-face veils in public spaces such as courts and schools.
It is also considering a more general ban on state employees wearing the headscarf and other religious symbols.
The measures are seen as an attempt to counter the rise of the far-right Freedom Party, whose candidate narrowly lost last month's presidential vote.
The centrist coalition nearly collapsed last week amid crisis negotiations over the government's future direction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38808495

I wonder how 'welcoming' Muslims will believe this is.

[Osem]

Hundreds of asylum seekers deemed a security risk will have their cases reviewed by German authorities in the wake of December's terror attack on a Berlin Christmas market which left 12 people dead.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said the country’s Joint Terrorism Task Force would examine the cases of 547 people to determine if they needed to be deported or taken into custody.

It came as Social Democrats politician Burkhard Lischka revealed authorities had lost track of three people identified as being high risk.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7534506.html

Who'd have thought any nasty people would have been hiding amongst the hordes eh? Dealing with the known dodgy types is going to be one thing but dealing with the those unknown and preventing a good many more becoming radicalised as a result of their treatment in Germany/EU quite another. Wonder what sort of outcry there'd have been had Trump done something like this?

[Mr K]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...share_btn_link

Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister
Stephen Crabb urges PM to rework system as there is nothing to suggest a reduction of migrants is achievable or desirable

Don't think those who voted for Brexit are going to get what they think.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by Mr K

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...share_btn_link



Don't think those who voted for Brexit are going to get what they think.

Correct. This is and was the biggest con of the Brexit campaign. Leaving the EU is not the answer to high immigration. As they say, "It's the economy stupid!"

Until we build an economy that doesn't need high immigration and enforce existing laws to prevent the exploitation of the low-paid EU worker then we will have high immigration. This is the main thrust of Corbyn's policy on immigration, although he doesn't call it that, and could be carried out without leaving the EU. To build an economy that doesn't need immigration we need a massive investment in education and skills development - again Corbyn's policy.

You can leave the EU and cut EU immigration if you want, but then, if nothing else is changed, there will be 10s of thousands of vacant skilled and unskilled jobs. This will have to be filled with labour from Asia, the Middle East and Africa. That will please Kippers no end!

Originally Posted by Mr K

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...share_btn_link



Don't think those who voted for Brexit are going to get what they think.

Load of crap from an unworthy source.

They will be tighter border controls as there needs to be, in some form or version or there is going to be a riot.