When hundreds of mostly African migrants escaped from the transfer centre in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, last weekend and began roaming the town’s bakeries and shops begging for food, the mayor took to social media to explain. There were 2,000 migrants squeezed into a facility meant for 250, he told terrified locals. The conditions were inhumane. The repeated attempts to escape were inevitable.
Germany’s president has warned that the country has “reached the limit” of the number of migrants it can take in.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the fact a third of all migrants who reached the EU come to Germany means that the country has “like Italy, reached the limit of what it can bear”.
Talking to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Wednesday, Mr Steinmeier said that he “took seriously the calls for help from local government” and said that “stronger controls and surveillance on Europe’s external borders” were necessary.
Civilizations are mortal. We know of entire worlds disappearing, of empires collapsing. It is happening again.
Imagine a ship. You start by changing the bow, then the rudder, the hull, the mast, the sail and finally all the constituent parts as they erode. At the end of this transformation, will it still be the same ship? Plutarch’s image in the “Life of Theseus” offers some help for a reflection on identity. Let’s imagine that the boat is our civilization. Would we still be faced with the same civilization?
With the wave of mass migration towards Europe we are faced with the greatest upheaval of European identity since the times of the Spanish Reconquista and the Ottoman wars. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said that “millions” will come, after 10.000 migrants landed in the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Newly released figures from Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency, revealed on Thursday, September 15th, that over 114,000 illegal migrant crossings across the Mediterranean to Italy were recorded between January and August, twice the number recorded during the same period last year, accounting for half of the illegal border crossing detected in 2023.
The agency, in its latest press release, stated that the number of illegal border crossings along the bloc’s external borders jumped by 18% in the first eight months of 2023, exceeding 232,350 instances, and marking the highest total for the period from January to August since the 2016 migrant crisis.
Germany announced a stop to taking in migrants from Italy on Wednesday, September 13th, The Telegraph reported. Berlin cites challenges to accommodate newcomers, while the Mediterranean country struggles with an unprecedented wave of arrivals, and its entire asylum system is on the brink of collapse.
Berlin also said that the move was necessary because Italy fails to comply with the Dublin regulation, which states that migrants should be returned to the first EU member state they entered until their asylum claims have been assessed.
You can’t escape the terribly inconvenient truth: if these illegal migrants had weapons, their hostile trespass onto the sovereign lands of others would be unambiguously seen as an act of war.
Cocaine production in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia has boomed in the last decade, and so has its importation into Europe
In May this year 87,000 asylum applications were lodged with the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). This was a 24 percent increase on the number of claims made in May 2022.
Syrians, Afghans, Ivorians and Guineans were heavily represented among those making claims, but there was also a remarkable number of South Americans. Over 7,000 Venezuelans asylum seekers arrived in Europe this May, along with 2,500 Peruvians and 6,900 Colombians. In the case of Colombians, this is a 90 percent increase on 2022. Most filed their asylum claims in Spain, and according to the EUAA, nearly all were first-time applicants.
Over 6,100 people from 76 different countries were caught illegally crossing into the United States along its northeastern border over the last 11 months alone — more than were apprehended there in the last 10 years combined, US border officials announced.
“Swanton Sector Agents are resolute and determined to hold the line,” said Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia in a series of social media posts Tuesday.
Garcia’s sector stretches nearly 300 miles across the US-Canadian border in New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Just when you think things cannot get any worse, illegal migration across the Channel now seems to have got so bad that the Government is relying on the weather to bring the numbers down.
Last Friday more than 800 illegal migrants successfully made the crossing. That was the highest daily total this year. But it also stood out in the stats because choppy waters had delayed crossings for a week, allowing some officials to pretend the problem was on the way to being solved.
A last-minute accommodation cancellation upset 168 British students’ plans as they were told their housing contracts, set to start in September, had been made null and void to make room for illegal migrants.
According to an exclusive LBC radio report, the property manager, Prestige Student Living, had confirmed that the agreements with the students—who were soon to start their courses at Huddersfield University in Yorkshire—had been “terminated with immediate effect.”
Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, by Todd Bensman, Bombardier Books, 432 pages
By the end of four years in power, the Biden administration will almost surely have admitted over 10 million illegal immigrants. Todd Bensman’s Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History is an essential book for understanding this migrant maelstrom. Reading his analysis of the unfolding border catastrophe can be wrenching, even infuriating, but conservatives need to grapple with a historic disaster, and the valuable material presented in this important book.
Overrun is a fire-bell ringing in the night. A White House that erases national borders, ignores federal laws, and refuses to expel illegal arrivals is on a mission to fundamentally change the country. While the country’s situation is dire, even desperate, Overrun also offers crucial policy fixes, most notably the need to “tear down and rebuild the American asylum system.”
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“This will have deleterious effects in Brussels, and not just around the Midi Station,” Brussels Minister Alain Maron warned after the government decided to stop giving shelter to male asylum-seekers.
Hundreds of male asylum seekers are left stranded on Brussels’ streets after a ban on single men entering refugee shelters came into effect this week, despite several courts ruling against it. The move is seen as both inhumane and dangerous to public safety, The Brussels Times reported, as politicians warn the number of homeless refugees could increase exponentially.
It’s only been several days since the Belgian government announced the temporary ban on sheltering male refugees within the network of Fedasil—the agency responsible for the reception of asylum seekers in Belgium—but the effects can already be seen on the streets.
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman has refused to rule out fitting illegal migrants with electronic and GPS tags.
Her department is reportedly mulling the idea as a way to ensure that migrants awaiting asylum decisions—and who cannot be housed in the network of immigration detention centers around the country—do not pick up and leave unmonitored.
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Italy is facing numbers of illegal immigrant arrivals not seen since the height of the migrant crisis and now, several leftist mayors are joining calls for stricter measures on illegal immigration after migrants were redistributed to their areas.
Mayors belonging to the leftist Italian Democratic Party (PD) are now critical of illegal immigration as the Italian government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has begun redistributing migrants to their cities and towns, the newspaper Il Giornale reports.
Steely Dan’s 1976 song “The Royal Scam” (from the album of the same name) reflects on the plight of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York City during the 1950s and ’60s, people who hoped to get a piece of the American dream for themselves, only to have their hopes dashed by the hateful discrimination they experienced soon after their arrival.
