German migration expert lambasts Europe for 'war against refugees'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.dw.com/en/german-migration-expert-lambasts-europe-for-war-against-refugees/a-19121141

Europe is at "war" against refugees and Chancellor Angela Merkel is using "double-faced" rhetoric of welcome and repulsion, said German migration expert Klaus Bade. He called the EU's overtures to Turkey "scandalous."

German migration expert lambasts Europe for 'war against refugees'
Ian P. Johnson
17.03.2016

Europe's "refugee crisis" is a rhetorical misnomer that has cast refugees who risk the Mediterranean and Aegean crossings as security threats instead of seeing them as individuals desperately seeking help, said migration expert Professor Klaus Bade (pictured below).

In an exasperated commentary in "MiGAZIN," an online portal specializing in migration, Bade has accused Berlin of placating the public with security policy instead of working harder through "massive investments" to tackle the world's root causes of refugee flight, which have been evident for decades.

The so-called Balkan route, closed with "razor-sharp" wire across southern Europe, has become the EU's new "red line." A process that began in 2006, when Spain ran Operation Seahorse to stop migrants from Senegal, Mauritania and Cape Verde from reaching its Canary Islands, had only become more "gruesome," he said.

Sharpest criticism for de Maizìere

The veteran migration researcher, who has advised past German governments, reserved his sharpest remarks for Merkel's conservative ally Interior Minister Thomas de Maizìere, whom he accused of using legal "acrobatics" in the German-led push for a deal between the EU and Turkey's authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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The world should also give a shout to Obama for keeping these wars going.

[DetlefK]

1. Europe should take in refugees, but not every immigrant coming to Europe is a refugee.

People coming from Syria and Iraq?
Wartime-refugees.
Europe has a moral obligation to take them in.

People coming from northern Africa? People coming from the Balcans?
Economic migrants.
Europe has no moral obligation to take them in.

[KoKo]

2. Why Not these?

Didn't we and our Allies cause problems for these people fleeing disaster? "Africom."

People coming from northern Africa?
Economic migrants.
Europe has no moral obligation to take them in.