Greece Continues to Round Up Illegal Immigrants
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 10:42 AM
In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 photo illegal immigrants are seen at detention center in Filakio village, northern Greece, near the borders with Turkey. Greece launched an aggressive campaign this month to try to seal its 200-kilometer (130-mile) northeastern border, as it faces a debilitating financial crisis that has caused a swell in joblessness and a surge in racist attacks against immigrants with dark skin. (AP/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
As Greece suffers though financial crisis the government rounds up illegal immigrants and puts them in camps.
The AP reported:
Greece’s remote Evros region has turned into Europe’s main battleground against illegal immigration; more than two-thirds of people making the clandestine journey into the European Union pass through here from neighboring Turkey.
Greece launched an aggressive campaign this month to try to seal its 200-kilometer (130-mile) northeastern border, as it faces a debilitating financial crisis that has caused a swell in joblessness and a surge in racist attacks against immigrants with dark skin.
The police operation has brought nearly 2,000 additional border guards to the Turkish frontier previously manned by about 500 officers. They fanned out with dogs, night vision equipment and flat-bottomed boats for 24-hour patrols of the Evros River that forms a natural border. At least 21 people have drowned or died of exposure crossing the river this year, while several have been listed as missing.
In Athens, the operation is being bolstered by mass roundups of suspected illegal immigrants. They are seen lined up on the streets of the capital every day, many in handcuffs, waiting to be put in detention until they can be deported. In the first week of the crackdown in early August, police said they apprehended nearly 7,000 people for identification checks; nearly 1,700 were slated for deportation.
The first 56 illegal immigrants were transferred to the Amygdaleza detention center in Greece in April. (Photo Panagiotis Glass-panel / Fosphotos)
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Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
When we become Greece, we can use this as an example.
Adirondack Patriot commented:
Madeline Albright says this is Bush’s fault.
Lefty commented:
If Russia invaded Turkey from the rear…would Greece help?
Opaobie commented:
They still have to bear the cost of feeding, clothing, guarding, and housing them. I hope Greece learned a lesson about “Open Borders” immigration policy….maybe we CAN still learn from the Greeks.
What Would Plato Do?
Emilie Green commented:
Worthless, useless muzzies,
Good for them commented:
Good on Greece. Hopefully this occurs in the U.S. in short order. There’s only so much to go around, folks, and the LEGAL citizens of a country are entitled to it, NOT the invaders.
Marsh626 commented:
Hurry up and deport them.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
It’s interesting in that Greece is looking to strike at the heart of the problem, whereas the U.S. pays lip service to a somewhat similar situation with its own border…
pat commented:
There is much background to this. Turkey actually facilitates the passage of Muslim illegals into Greece, even to the extent of busing them to illegal crossings. Turkey feels that it can colonize Greece again and force it into the Ummah through sheer numbers. The rapes, robberies, and religious attacks on Greek Christians have been a constant topic of discussion in spite of the news embargo by the media and government.
Oldlineconservative.com commented:
Obama could learna thing or two from the Greeks.
His Executive Order which grants backdoor amnesty to illegal aliens that arrived here with their illegal parents can only hurt the economy and our society. It is more of the same thing, cheap labor, drugs, children born out of wedlock etc.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
Today, California decided to let young illegals have driver’s licenses.
Amid an economic tempest, Greece seems handle some things much better than we do.
Frightening, isn’t it?
Sic Semper Tyrannis commented:
Good on Greece. Scofflaw criminal Illegal Immigrants should be rounded up and deported. Once they’re out of the country they can fill out the paperwork, pay the fees, go through a background check and wait in line just like all of the good and decent immigrants have always done.
Mad Hatter commented:
When can we hire these people, and disperse them throughout the Southwest?
rabble-rouser commented:
got to stop the hemorrhage somehow? Good for Greece
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Turkey actually facilitates the passage of Muslim illegals into Greece, even to the extent of busing them to illegal crossings.
Not much more different than Mexico’s approach with the U.S.
The Turks are just more open about it.
MicahStone commented:
“Greece Continues to Round Up Illegal Immigrants”
..Ya mean a country with massive unemployment, bankrupting debt, no growth and decreasing incomes, wealth and standards of living DEPORTS ILLEGALS criminals instead of giving them BACKDOOR AMNESTY and WORK PERMITS????
Amazing.
kato commented:
The thing about the immigrants pouring into Greece, most of them don’t stick around. They head to European countries that still have functional economies.
The Greeks had been perfectly happy to be the portal into Europe. But now that they’re begging for handouts from the Germans, etc., who have been complaining for years about Greece’s lax enforcement of its borders, they’re finally getting tough.
stonedome commented:
i thought it was too expensive and logistically impossible to round up and deport illegals…oh, that’s right, out government is lying to us.
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