Title: The Refugee Industry/Racket Source:
vdare.com and Various URL Source:http://www.vdare.com/tag/refugee-racket Published:Nov 18, 2015 Author:Various Post Date:2015-11-18 15:02:00 by GreyLmist Keywords:Refugee, Industry, Racket Views:116 Comments:8
This topic is for archival compilations of news, laws, profiteering/racketeering, etc. info (past and present) regarding Refugee "Crisis Management" agendas (fashionably attributed to the ongoing Syria conflict and such).
European Commission president will announce plans to give €6,000 for every refugee a country accepts
The European Commission is proposing to pay EU countries €6,000 for each UN-registered refugee which they agree to resettle. The idea, announced by the European Commission on Wednesday (4 December), is part of a package designed to stop people dying on sea crossings and being exploited by human traffickers.
It is aimed at the Syria crisis. Over 2 million Syrians are registered refugees, many of them living in overcrowded camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The EU resettled 5,000 of them last year.
It also gave some form of asylum to 90 percent of the 20,000 or so Syrians who made their own way to Europe.
By comparison, the US resettled 50,000.
EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told press: "This is the single most efficient short-term measures that member states can do to help and to avoid for these very vulnerable people to take the dangerous route over the Mediterranean."
Other measures announced Wednesday include giving the EU's joint police agency, Europol, an extra €400,000 a year to target people smugglers.
The commission is to give €30 million to Italy and €20 million to other member states to improve conditions for asylum seekers.
It also says its border control agency, Frontex, needs an additional €14 million to co-ordinate sea patrols.
Frontex told this website the money would be used to expand existing operations in Greece and Italy only.
Disembarkation dispute
There are plenty of thorny questions - for instance, who takes in migrants which are rescued by Frontex? - in EU migration talks.
The commission in April put out guidelines that say whichever EU country is hosting the Frontex operation involved should take them in.
But Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain say migrants should be taken to the nearest port.
A Maltese official told EUobserver the EU guidelines "make no sense." He noted that if a Malta-hosted Frontex boat rescued someone next to Lampedusa, an Italian island, it would take them two days to reach Malta instead of dropping them off at an Italian port.
Frontex said its boats only do patrols in their host country's maritime zone.
Humanitarian visas Another thorny question is "humanitarian visas."
EU countries generally decline to grant asylum to people who apply at their foreign consulates, a practice which leads some of them to make their own way to the EU border to file claims.
But the commission is exploring the idea of granting humanitarian visas to let people in need enter the EU legally and safely.
A commission official said member states fear creating a "pull factor," however. Malmstrom noted "there is very little enthusiasm" for the scheme.
The broad EU effort is designed to prevent disasters such as Lampedusa in October, when more than 350 people drowned.
“After Lampedusa, there were very strong words in the European Union. Still, it happened. And it is likely to happen again,” Malmstrom warned.
European Commission president will announce plans to give €6,000 for every refugee a country accepts
Jean-Claude Juncker will this week attempt to overcome hostility from eastern Europe to a programme of migrant distribution quotas by offering bounties worth thousands of euros.
In a ‘State of the Union’ address to the European Parliament – a speech modeled on that delivered annually by the US president – the European Commission president is expected to highlight compensation of €6,000 (£4,400) to be given for each refugee a country accepts.
Countries will be paid €500 in transport costs for every asylum seeker who arrives in their country that needs to be relocated to an EU neighbour within the scheme.
Mr Juncker – under fire for the EU’s response to the crisis - is expected to use the address to build political support for a mandatory scheme to relocate some 160,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary around the bloc.
It is an ambitious target: a similar plan for just 40,000 people had to be downgraded from a mandatory to a voluntary scheme earlier this year after meeting with objections from member states.
IN NUMBERS: European refugee crisis [data at the site]
The Visegrad states – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – on Friday said the revived proposals are “unacceptable”. Hungary and Slovakia regard the Middle Eastern migrants as a threat to their countries’ Christian identity.
Mr Juncker insisted the crisis will not force leaders to “set aside Schengen,” amid warnings the free movement zone is under pressure from the migratory flow.
“The right to free movement is an achievement of Europe and it is untouchable. We must not jeopardise Schengen, just because some member states violate European rules, and regard solidarity as fair-weather word,” he told the Bild newspaper.
Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, on Sunday called for an emergency summit of EU leaders to address the crisis.
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s chief diplomat, said that the flow is “here to stay”, and said those coming to Europe are refugees who required legal protection.
That contradicts the stance of eastern European countries which claim the incomers are motivated by higher standards of living and are coming from states such as Pakistan and Mali.
“It is partially a migrant flow, but it is mainly a refugee flow, which puts us in a different situation when it comes to our legal and moral duties,” said Mrs Mogherini.
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary to enter Germany caused a split in her conservative coalition.
Leaders of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union agreed in a conference call that the decision “sent totally the wrong signal”, and that federal states that have to deal with the influx were not consulted.
EU MIGRANT CRISIS [Graphs at the site - Sweden being the country most "selected"; Austria next.]
Wikipedia References
Schengen Area: 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their common borders. ... named after the Schengen Agreement.
Schengen Agreement: led to the creation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area. The treaty was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg but was only partially implemented until 1995.
12 Iraqi Chaldean Christians who [allegedly] fled ISIS will be deported in the following weeks.
Twelve of the 27 Iraqi Christians being detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Facility are set to be deported in coming weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
An immigration judge ordered their removal in the last two weeks, ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said. She declined to provide specific information about why the immigrants are being deported and where they will be taken, citing privacy issues.
Typically, unauthorized immigrants who face deportation are returned to the country where they were living before entering the United States. It’s likely that most of the Chaldeans will be deported to such countries as Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, known to provide safe haven to Iraqi refugees.
A group of 27 Iraqi Christians — also known as Chaldeans — has been detained in Otay for about six months as their immigration cases proceed, according to local activists and family members.
The Chaldeans were detained by immigration authorities after they attempted to cross the U.S. border through the San Ysidro Port of Entry without documentation several months ago.
Thousands of Chaldeans have fled Iraq in recent years, escaping persecution in the Middle East at the hands of the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS.
Lundon Attisha, spokesman for the Neighborhood Market Association, said he and other Chaldean leaders were advised by the attorneys representing the detainees not to comment on the issue.
The pending deportation of these 12 detainees comes as two Iraqi women were arrested on suspicion of fraudulently seeking asylum in the U.S., a federal crime that comes with a penalty of up to five years in custody and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
The women, who are now in the custody of U.S. Marshals, were previously detained at the Otay facility, Mack said.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations arrested Valentina Adil Slewa Zori on Friday, accusing her of falsifying information in an asylum application, including omission of her German citizenship.
Zori also admitted to fabricating information about threats made to her family and claims that her brother was kidnapped by a man associated with the Islamic State, the complaint said.
In an interview Aug. 3, Zori — who on occasion went by the name Valentina Adel Mroge — admitted to living in Germany since 1997, where she went to school and worked as a hairstylist.
“Zori indicated that since she was a child, she wanted to come to the U.S.,” the complaint said.
She’ll be deported to Germany.
Douglas Nelson, Zori’s immigration attorney, declined to comment.
Another complaint filed July 28 in U.S. District Court in San Diego alleges that Reta Marrogi — who at times has gone by the name of Zina Hornes Oraha Delli — falsified information in an asylum application and omitted the fact that she previously had been granted refugee asylum in Germany.
Under a question in the application asking if she or any family members had ever received legal status in another country, “the defendant answered ‘No,’ which the defendant then and there knew was false,” the complaint said.
Marrogi’s attorney could not be reached for comment.
Martin Manna, president of the Chaldean Community Foundation — a Detroit-based organization that provides support for Iraqi refugees — said applying for refugee asylum can take several years.
Immigrants must petition the United Nations for refugee status. After that, applicants must complete a standard interview, but interview dates often come with a five- to seven- year wait time, according to Manna.
Upon completion of the interview, applicants are redirected to a country that’s willing to accept them. The U.N. typically admits up to 7,500 Iraqi refugees into the United States each year, he said.
“We’re talking a few thousand a year that are coming to the U.S. But there’s more than a million that are trying to find permanent residency,” he said.
The housewares giant has teamed up with the U.N. to build better shelters for refugees, but authorities in Beirut fear hundreds of thousands of Syrians now living as refugees in Lebanon may get too comfortable
it only made sense that Ikea’s philanthropic wing would team up with the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, to develop a similarly of-the-moment solution to the vexing problem of temporary refugee housing, which hasn’t substantially evolved beyond the tent since the Israelites fled Egypt.
More than 2 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries since the conflict started in 2011. At least half have settled in Lebanon, where Syrian refugees now make up nearly 25% of the population, taxing an already weakened state infrastructure that can barely support the educational, health and sanitation needs of local Lebanese. It is for this reason that government authorities, unlike those in Jordan and Turkey, have refused to establish refugee camps.
now the staggering numbers are taking a toll. The refugees are now scattered across the country, making it much more difficult to deliver adequate assistance. Even though the government is opening up to the idea of better shelters, it is opposed to any kind of formal camp. Still, says [Roberta] Russo [a communication officer for the UNHCR], Lebanon has been far more generous in terms of hosting Syrians than any other country,
UNHCR and the Ikea Foundation have spent three years and more than $4.6 million to develop an alternative to the traditional tent.
The houses are currently in testing, and still cost around $7,500 to produce. Once they have completed field trials in Iraq and Ethiopia — 12 were to be tested in Lebanon starting this summer, prior to the government’s refusal — they will be mass-produced, which is expected to bring the price down to around $1,000 or less. That’s still more expensive than a tent or a sheet of plastic, but it won’t have to be replaced nearly so often. UNHCR estimates that some 3.5 million refugees around the world live in tents, and on average they stay in camps for about 12 years.
says David Sanderson, a visiting professor of urban planning at Harvard University who specializes in disaster management. “The idea that you can solve the refugee problem with a new house design offers false comfort. The risk now is that we will see photographs of 50 Ikea shelters set up for the Syrians, and we think, ‘O.K., they are all fine, we can think about something else.’ ... Give refugees better conditions, and there will be less international pressure to get them back home.
The units are spacious, have solar panels, and can last an average of three years.
Refugee camps across Iraq are about to get a Swedish touch.
The United Nations’ refugee agency just ordered 10,000 shelters designed by Ikea, its largest corporate partner, set to be shipped out and built this summer. Produced by Better Shelter, a social enterprise started by the Ikea Foundation, the design marries form, function, and sustainability. One shelter can last an average of three years, compared with traditional tents, which typically last only a few months.
Each shelter is fitted with solar panels, mosquito nets, lights, and ventilation, reports news site IRIN. There are also lockable doors, a key feature, as lack of privacy at refugee camps can leave women and children vulnerable to sexual assault. Prototypes were previously tested among 40 refugee families in Iraq and Ethiopia. The structures offer extra space—they’re 57 feet square and six feet tall—allowing family members to stand upright in the space, as opposed to crouching or lying down in tents.
... inside a Better Shelter prototype, Kawergosk refugee camp, Iraq, March 2015. (Photo: Courtesy BetterShelter.org)
“The refugees have been involved in the process from the beginning,” Anders Rexare Thulin, managing director of Better Shelter, told IRIN. “We have received regular feedback from families living in the structures, and we made sure we incorporated their comments in our design.”
Assembly of Better Shelter prototype, Hilawyen Refugee camp, Dollo Ado, Ethiopia in July 2013. (Photo: R.Cox/ Courtesy BetterShelter.org)
There are more than two million refugees and internally displaced persons in Iraq, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In recent years, the agency has also worked with Ikea [partnering with the United Nations] to provide solar lamps to refugees in Ethiopia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Chad, and Jordan.
“Putting refugee families and their needs at the heart of this project is a great example of how democratic design can be used for humanitarian value,” Jonathan Spampinato, head of the Ikea Foundation’s strategic planning and communications, said in a statement. “We are incredibly proud that the Better Shelter is now available so refugee families and children can have a safer place to call home.”
a multinational group of companies that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs and desks), appliances, small motor vehicles and home accessories. As of January 2008, it is the world's largest furniture retailer.[4] Founded in Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who was listed as one of the world's richest people in 2013,[5] the company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Smaland, south Sweden).[6]
Headquarters: Delft,[1] Netherlands
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