No Safe Haven: The Weaponization of Migration
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Published 2024-08-08
As the main transit route to Europe, Turkey already hosts more refugees than any other country in the world and President Erdogan has seemingly run out of patience. But Europe has hardened its borders and refugees accuse EU member states of breaking international law in their attempt to keep them out.
Now millions of refugees are finding themselves in the center of a political chess match that puts their lives in more danger.
This segment is from the show ‘VICE’, originally aired in Dec 2021.
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All Comments (21)
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First question I have is why their true destination is Germany? Why isn't it UAE or Qatar or Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or Kuwait? Being Muslims they will surely be easily assimilated in those countries. Why take a more dangerous and longer route to Europe?
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It is NOT a human right to illegally enter another country and expect them to look after you. Put the efforts into improving your own countries, not ruining others please
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Here’s the rub, most countries are ill equipped to handle 100k-1M refugees. Greece for instance has one of the world’s highest national debt and while their economy is doing better now than a decade ago it still has a long way to go. The other issue is cultural, most Muslim immigrants don’t want to assimilate to the countries culture that took them in and expect the country to bend to their will. Middle Eastern immigrants would even clash in a Muslim country like Bosnia because they’re just too culturally different despite all practicing Islam.
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Just content from 2021 being re-uploaded... RIP Vice Media.
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What make them think it's ok to go to another country illegally?
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So who is weaponizing it on the US border?
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If you want to go to other countries illegally than you must want to simulate and respect their culture there or else don’t go there thinking they owe you anything
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Whole world can't live in Europe, there are many more places in the world, go elsewhere.
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Why does everyone expect us to welcome everyone with open arms? And why should my country (Poland) end up like England or France? that my girlfriend would be afraid to leave the house at night because someone would attack her. Someone who begins an interaction with my country by breaking its laws does not come there with good intentions.
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Ridiculous! Half of them have designer clothes and the latest smart phone … stay in your country and fix the problems there! it’s your responsibility!
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What ever happened to good ol fashioned revolutions? I'll support these people building their nations up before I'll support them coming here illegally.
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Our world has gone mad
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Germany has enough. How many are enough? There will be no fucking end to this ever. It will only create chaos and ruin wuripw too.
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I am from Poland, a country which is attacked by weaponized migrants. We have never invaded anyone, or been bad to anyone. We've been the victim throughout the last 200 years. We've clawed our way to prosperity very slowly but diligently, and now we are expected to just allow everyone into our country, without them respecting our history, language and traditions. We are a monoethnic society, and thanks to that we are one of the safest countries in Europe. And it will stay that way. Not a single illegal migrant will cross our border, and Poland will never change into a migrant hellhole like the UK or France. We will defend our country, as we once did against the Nazis and Soviets, so will we defend ourselves against forced change of culture and banditry.
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EU did help enough people. Our countries are being overtaken and our streets are now dangerous due to high crime rates. They need to fix their own countries and beliefs, not illegally migrate to somewhere else just to start over the degradation.
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Everyone that cheered for the Taliban when they marched back in power should house the Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
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Muslims should go to islamic countries like saudi,uae or iran,why not?
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Expecting smugglers to treat u good is hilarious
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And it appears that a lot of people are pretending to be refugees in order to move to a more affluent country also moving across several safe countries to get to their desired choice.
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“So poor” yet somehow they have a shitload of money to pay smugglers to get them illegally across the border.