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Europe now has open-door immigration


"With several European countries now using their ships to provide what is effectively a ferry service from north Africa to Europe for all the world’s migrants to set up home in Europe’s bankrupt welfare states, the EU political class have finally got what most of them have always wanted -- an open-door policy on immigration into Europe.

Open-door immigration is not something the voters of Europe have ever remotely accepted, and the politicians were always denied their cohesion-destroying goal. But migrant deaths in the Mediterranean have changed all that.

The Left’s dream of open-door immigration is now effectively being achieved by back-door mass migration under the moral guise of rescuing victims from unscrupulous traffickers. The Left can now make a virtue of their anti-democratic mass-immigration dreams.

No one denies there is a strong case for Europe to help. The EU and all European governments claim there is an obvious moral duty to save people at risk of drowning, and of course all morally decent people will agree. But matters are not that simple, and the public know it.

Why, for example, are drowning migrants only Europe’s moral problem? Why are Egypt and Turkey and Saudi Arabia not using their navies to pick up Mediterranean migrants and taking them back to their respective countries? If moral duty to save drowning people is the issue, then these countries should be playing their part.

But of course we all know that saving innocent victims is not, in any simple sense, the real issue here. We know that the Mediterranean boat people do not want to be saved by Egypt or Turkey or Saudi Arabia and taken to these countries. (It would be very interesting to see how the boat people would react if a Saudi ship offered them safe passage to Saudi Arabia).

No, Europe’s navies are not engaged simply in a life-saving exercise. If they were, they would land the migrants at the nearest port or back where they came from.

And the public also know that these boat people pay the traffickers to create the moral problem in the first place. People know that the traffickers are not the real cause of the Mediterranean crisis (as the politicians and media try to make out), but are in fact a nasty symptom of it.

For all of these reasons many perfectly decent people question the EU’s policy of ferrying migrants into Europe.

It’s obvious to any realist that Europe’s policy of an unconditional commitment to saving and settling these migrants in Europe, far from solving a problem, is actually creating a new migrant crisis on a vastly greater scale."



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