shockedcanadian
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It appears that the all loving, unflappable welcoming of illegal immigrants (notice they use the word "irregular", lol, tell that to your citizens) is suddenly not so welcome. Belarus and the E.U are in a tiff and Belarus is telling them "have as many irregular Iraqi citizens to your hearts content".
Maybe, like Germany and France, they are realizing the culture shock and lack of choice for those who enter illegally, often bringing little skillset that a nation needs? Many of the same countries who chastised Trump for protecting his border are now also expressing the same resistance, or, they realize they don't want the same issues that the U.S is facing. Issues that could cost those who spent a lifetime investing in their system.
All competitive nations want legal immigration in which a nation picks and choose who enters, those with ambition and talent are particularly valuable. Now the E.U, seeing what Merkel and Macron did to their nations is having a shift in their policy. Go figure.
VILNIUS, July 5 (Reuters) - The European Union "speaks with one voice" in condemning a decision by Belarus to allow illegal migrants to cross into Lithuania in response to EU sanctions, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday.
The Lithuanian government declared a countrywide emergency on Friday as the flow of mainly Iraqi migrants arriving from Belarus reached around 150 per day, more than had entered annually in any of the preceding three years.
"My European Council colleagues are very clear that ... the Belarus authorities are using irregular migration to try and put pressure on the European Union, including Lithuania," Michel told a joint news conference in Vilnius with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.
"The European Union is loudly, and in one voice, condemning the pressure (exerted) by using the migrants. I want to express European Union solidarity," he added. "It is my personal wish to assure Lithuania of the member states' solidarity."
Maybe, like Germany and France, they are realizing the culture shock and lack of choice for those who enter illegally, often bringing little skillset that a nation needs? Many of the same countries who chastised Trump for protecting his border are now also expressing the same resistance, or, they realize they don't want the same issues that the U.S is facing. Issues that could cost those who spent a lifetime investing in their system.
All competitive nations want legal immigration in which a nation picks and choose who enters, those with ambition and talent are particularly valuable. Now the E.U, seeing what Merkel and Macron did to their nations is having a shift in their policy. Go figure.
VILNIUS, July 5 (Reuters) - The European Union "speaks with one voice" in condemning a decision by Belarus to allow illegal migrants to cross into Lithuania in response to EU sanctions, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday.
The Lithuanian government declared a countrywide emergency on Friday as the flow of mainly Iraqi migrants arriving from Belarus reached around 150 per day, more than had entered annually in any of the preceding three years.
"My European Council colleagues are very clear that ... the Belarus authorities are using irregular migration to try and put pressure on the European Union, including Lithuania," Michel told a joint news conference in Vilnius with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.
"The European Union is loudly, and in one voice, condemning the pressure (exerted) by using the migrants. I want to express European Union solidarity," he added. "It is my personal wish to assure Lithuania of the member states' solidarity."
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