Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Wholesale Transition: North Africa, Middle East Invasion

"Plaintiffs argue that this President's words strike at fundamental standards of respect and tolerance, in violation of our constitutional tradition."
"But the issue before us is not whether to denounce the statements. It is instead the significance of those statements in reviewing a Presidential directive, neutral on its face, addressing a matter within the core of executive responsibility."
"In doing so, we must consider not only the statements of a particular President, but also the authority of the Presidency itself."
"The Proclamation is squarely within the scope of Presidential authority."
Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court

"Migration pits southern Europe against the north."
"Italy and Greece smoulder with resentment at having been left alone to deal with migrant arrivals. Meanwhile, northern countries blame the south for not patrolling their Mediterranean borders better and for having, at least in the past, enabled migrants to "slip away" northwards towards richer Germany, Austria and Sweden."
"Migration slashes the EU from east to west too."
"Newer member states from Central and Eastern Europe never signed up to the post World War Two "all for one and one for all" vision."
"When it comes to EU solidarity and burden-sharing, they are fervent non-believers. They determinedly turn their backs when Italy and Germany plead for migrant quotas."
"The number of migrants arriving illegally in Europe may be down, but so is voter tolerance of the problem."
"The rise and rise across the EU of tough-on-migration politicians has emboldened hardliners such as Hungary's Victor Orban and Austria's Sebastian Kurz, who takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU this Sunday and will push migration as a top priority."
"'Keep Them Out' is Austria's main aim and while Europe's [still] most influential leader, Angela Merkel, arrives in Brussels on Thursday pushing - and praying - for compromise on burden-sharing and prevention, the number of EU leaders pushing single-mindedly on the migrant deterrence button is growing."




A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, left, standing in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, advises migrants that they are about to illegally cross from Champlain, N.Y., and will be arrested, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017.    AP Photo/Charles Krupa










Migrants on an inflatable boat boarding the Lifeline sea rescue boat at sea on June 21, 2018
The splits within the EU have been highlighted by Italy's refusal to accept migrants carried by NGO rescue boats in the Mediterranean    AFP

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