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Saudi Arabia is pretty pissed off. According to them, they have 500,000 Syrians inside the country who weren't there prior to the war, all of whom have healthcare. 300,000 of them were given scholarships to universities. But they don't have a formal refugee program, so they call these people "visitors." Now they're probably stretching the truth a little bit, but the people tossing around this "0 refugees in KSA" factoid likely are as well. https://soundcloud.com/sarah-y-bn-ashoor/bbc-news-hour-mohammed-khalid-alyahya-on-the-syrian-refugee-crisis-and-the-efforts-of-gulf-states
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ungulateman posted:You had me up to this point You know that Interstellar is a documentary right? I think South America and Central America could potentially take some of the refugees. PerpetualSelf fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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PerpetualSelf posted:You know that Interstellar is a documentary right? Welp, It's not SAmerica but certain parts of Mexico are just as bad as Syria at times. I'm thinking of applying for my German Government provided flat, pension and blonde any day now if this drug war keeps up.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 03:44 |
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I listen to NPR 'er day and I still don't understand why when a refugee is intercepted, they are not fingerprinted and processed and instead the intercepting country is all 1930's American Depression "keep walking." Help me DND, I feel like a fucktard on this subject.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 06:05 |
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osker posted:I listen to NPR 'er day and I still don't understand why when a refugee is intercepted, they are not fingerprinted and processed and instead the intercepting country is all 1930's American Depression "keep walking." They are doing that in Italy but plenty of the refugees try and escape the camps because the conditions are horrible and they don't want to get processed in Italy as they'll be sent back there if caught trying to get to Germany or the UK. The arriving countries arent all that bothered about this because Greece and Italy can't deal with the numbers coming over on their own.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 07:28 |
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Tias posted:Our government is literal racist scum. I pray this does not kick off another round of diplomatic crises And, of course, it turns out that Sweden doesn't want them, either (sorry, in Danish): http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/sverige-siger-nej-til-modtage-flygtningestroem-fra-danmark
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 10:17 |
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Were they planning to swim across the sea to Sweden? Surely they have to identify themselves somewhere to get on a boat?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 10:55 |
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Denmark and Sweden have some sweet bridges/tunnels between them. No idea if its walkable but you can get from Copenhagen to Sweden on a train in less than half an hour with no border checks.
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SaltyJesus posted:Were they planning to swim across the sea to Sweden? Surely they have to identify themselves somewhere to get on a boat? I'm sure they weren't planning it that thoroughly, but there is a bridge between Sweden and Denmark.
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Sweet, didn't know that.
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Inferior Third Season posted:On top of the Lebanese newspaper ads, the Danish government yesterday also issued a warning that motorists who picked up any of the hundreds of refugees that are now walking on the Danish highways, trying to get to Sweden from Germany, would be charged with human smuggling and risk huge fines and up to two years in prison (with the exception that they drove them directly to the nearest police station, for "processing"). Some people in Denmark really don't like the refugees. Well, one man in particular. http://www.bt.dk/danmark/mand-spyttede-paa-flygtninge-og-bad-dem-skride-hjem-det-er-ynkelig-opfoersel It's in Danish, but if you have a translator on your browser you can get a good idea of the story. A friend of mine in Denmark who is also a goon (though I think he stopped posting on the forums) showed me that link and translated it as an old guy among a crowd of hundreds of people welcoming refugees and handing out food who was spitting on and harassing said refugees. Talk about a contrast of emotions. On one hand I'm warmed by what is clearly a majority of Danes trying to help their fellow human beings, but on the other hand I'm disgusted by the actions of this one man. It's so needlessly cruel, it goes beyond the passive violence of letting people starve/freeze to death and becomes an active violence against them.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 11:14 |
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(percentages of total refugee influx, proposal on the left, actual numbers on the right) EU proposal would heavily disburden Germany, Sweden and Austria and the border states Hungary, Italy and Greece (who would be exempt from the quota, along with the UK, Denmark and Ireland) while demanding a lot more from most other countries.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 11:21 |
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As a complete outsider to Europe, how is this distribution meant to work with the Schengen (sp?) agreement or whatever allows people to move freely through the EU? I mean, if they can be distributed elsewhere and then immediately pack up and go back to Germany... how is this going to work? Are they going to force them to stay put? Are they going to reintroduce border controls?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 11:40 |
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SorcerousHam posted:As a complete outsider to Europe, how is this distribution meant to work with the Schengen (sp?) agreement or whatever allows people to move freely through the EU? I was about to ask this too. Won't the refugees just go back to Germany? Or are we just going to lock them up in secured apartments to make sure they stick? Also how does the distribution work? why does refugee A get to go to Germany but refugee B has to go to some Eastern country?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 11:58 |
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kikkelivelho posted:I was about to ask this too. Won't the refugees just go back to Germany? Or are we just going to lock them up in secured apartments to make sure they stick? The way I understand it: Refugees don't apply for asylum in Europe, they apply for asylum in a specific country. If they get asylum, they get the same social rights as any other inhabitant in that specific country. There are also no European rules that determine how an application should be judged, and the percentage of granted asylums differ widely between countries. Of course a refugee that got asylum in say Greece could move to Germany, but he'd have to start a whole different (longer) procedure to get the same social rights as a "native" German. kikkelivelho posted:Also how does the distribution work? why does refugee A get to go to Germany but refugee B has to go to some Eastern country? It doesn't work, that's the whole problem
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SorcerousHam posted:As a complete outsider to Europe, how is this distribution meant to work with the Schengen (sp?) agreement or whatever allows people to move freely through the EU? I'd guess that the refugees will get registered in their host countries and they'll get social benefits from there. Leaving the host country would mean forfeiting them. They could move to Germany but they wouldn't have money, apartment or work permits etc there.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 12:14 |
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willemw posted:It doesn't work, that's the whole problem Even without the flaws this proposal seems like a too little too late kinda deal. Shuffling a few migrants around probably won't help when thousands more enter Europe every week.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 12:29 |
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kikkelivelho posted:Even without the flaws this proposal seems like a too little too late kinda deal. Shuffling a few migrants around probably won't help when thousands more enter Europe every week. The quota isn't meant for ending the refugee crisis but for alleviating the immediate strains a few countries experience currently while the rest of Europe isn't bothered by it that much.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 12:34 |
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Honj Steak posted:The quota isn't meant for ending the refugee crisis but for alleviating the immediate strains a few countries experience currently while the rest of Europe isn't bothered by it that much. But how can you enforce it? If you have 100 refugees who want to go to Germany, how do you force 4 of them to go to Hungary?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 12:38 |
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Are there any charities which stand out as especially effective with helping refugees? Preferably ones active in the UK as I'm thinking of doing some volunteering but if not then there are always donations.
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osker posted:I listen to NPR 'er day and I still don't understand why when a refugee is intercepted, they are not fingerprinted and processed and instead the intercepting country is all 1930's American Depression "keep walking." If you are Hungary or a refugee in Hungary, you wouldn't want refugees to be formally processed there, because that makes them asylum seekers (formerly refugees) in that country. Hence the distinction as a "transit country", ie a country whose government hates refugees and vice versa. ufarn fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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CNN US has a live correspondent joining refugees in running through a breach in Hungarian border security in a cornfield. I don't think having a reporter chasing you helps with being inconspicuous.
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team overhead smash posted:Are there any charities which stand out as especially effective with helping refugees? Preferably ones active in the UK as I'm thinking of doing some volunteering but if not then there are always donations. I would recommend the UNHCR, because the vast majority of refugees don't have the means or the ability to attempt to come to Europe, and they typically only get 20-30% of their requested budget. No matter what Europe does, we're going to see a situation like Lebanon in 1948 where a substantial number of refugees will not be able to return home, and over decades, these UNHCR camps are going to evolve to become permanent cities. The more aid the UNHCR gets in adapting to that, the better off a lot of refugees are going to be. Can't help you with volunteering. http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
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kikkelivelho posted:I was about to ask this too. Won't the refugees just go back to Germany? Or are we just going to lock them up in secured apartments to make sure they stick? People already mentioned it, but technically you are not even allowed to seek asylum in Germany if you entered the country from another "safe" state. If you already applied in a different EU member you are definitely out. Also, for the duration of the asylum court process(around a year on average) Germany gives you a residence permit for the region where you applied. You are only allowed to stay in that area and if police catches you outside you get a fine or you can even go to prison for it. This residence permit does absolutely not allow any border crossings. While there are no systematic border controls in the Schengen area, there are still random controls going on that might catch you. The police on the other side of the border will probably also send you back to Germany for punishment if you get caught there.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 14:14 |
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Just make the EU one country, this isn't even the first dumb problem Europe has that this would solve.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 15:11 |
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VitalSigns posted:Just make the EU one country, this isn't even the first dumb problem Europe has that this would solve. No thank you. This wouzld bring many many more problems then it would solve.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 15:37 |
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VitalSigns posted:Just make the EU one country, this isn't even the first dumb problem Europe has that this would solve. Yeah sure. I'd love for my nice little socialist state to be run by Angela Merkel and the rest of her centre-right ilk.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 15:42 |
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Bedshaped posted:Yeah sure. I'd love for my nice little socialist state to be run by Angela Merkel and the rest of her centre-right ilk. Most Americans didn't want George W Bush running our country either but you know what, we manned up, used the world's dumbest system of electing a head of state, and did it anyway.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 15:59 |
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Europe just needs to man the gently caress up.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 16:26 |
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mlmp08 posted:CNN US has a live correspondent joining refugees in running through a breach in Hungarian border security in a cornfield.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 16:35 |
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Yea how dare CNN actually report news instead of live tweets.
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tsa posted:Yea how dare Geraldo Rivera actually report news by giving away where U.S. Soldiers were.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 18:37 |
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XMNN posted:This came up in the UKMT, but it's worth bringing up here. Christ that's like saving a wounded man, rehabilitating him, then shooting him in the leg and tossing him in a ditch.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 19:04 |
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IronDoge posted:Christ that's like saving a wounded man, rehabilitating him, then shooting him in the leg and tossing him into a pool full of ravenous bull sharks. ftfy.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 19:06 |
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Forced repatriation certainly doesn't happen to every refugee who turns 18, to be clear. As with any asylum application its dependent on circumstance and most refugees turning 18 get to remain in the UK. Even doing this to one child is awful though. http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/09/08/the-deportation-game-what-happens-when-refugees-turn-18
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 19:10 |
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Personally I don't see anything wrong with taking disaffected youths and throwing them back into the warzone they came from. This is because instead of a heart I have a black hole.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 19:18 |
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I suppose it's slightly better that they're not doing it to literally every single one, but doing it to even one person is too many. It's just barbaric on a level that I don't know how the people doing it sleep at night or even begin consider themselves to be moral human beings. It's so lacking in humanity and compassion that it's difficult to articulate. Like, I could maybe see it if Afghanistan wasn't still such a terrible place to be and the outcome of shipping a bunch of teenagers with no local knowledge and few connections to an underdeveloped warzone wasn't so obvious.
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Maybe the goal is to put better people back in the country with the goal of stabilizing it? Brain drain is going to be a serious issue when you start accepting all these refugees. I have has this feeling that there are solutions to these countries issues. But all the people who have the ability to solve things and make their country a better place end up leaving, making their countries a worse place and perpetuating a vicious cycle of ever decline that only ensures things will get worse not better. We've certainly seen that happen in Cuba and Venezuela before.
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