• [OT] EU *finally* draws the line on refugees

    From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Jun 20 09:25:38 2026
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    The EU has finally decided to crack down on refugee claimants.
    Yesterday, a large bloc of them overwhelmingly voted to hold refugee
    claimants on offshore islands while their refugee claims are
    investigated, rather than letting them into the EU while they wait for
    their claims to be processed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04aZ-8neDg [first few minutes]

    Apparently, this was the first time the various right-leaning factions
    in the EU parliament have worked together on the immigration issue.

    This has the potential of being a huge step forward in closing the EU
    borders, which will go a long way to closing the UK borders as well.
    After all, the migrants flooding into the UK are NOT coming there
    directly from the third world, they're entering via France and Belgium.
    If they can't get into France and Belgium because they're waiting on an offshore island in the Mediterranean, they're not going to go to the UK.
    (At least not via the rubber boats they are using now.)

    Given the money these smugglers make, I imagine they're already planning
    new ways to get refugees to the UK, like renting submarines and putting
    them ashore overnight or smuggling them on fishing boats.
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    Rhino

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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Jun 20 16:59:11 2026
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    On Jun 20, 2026 at 6:25:38 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    The EU has finally decided to crack down on refugee claimants.

    While at the same time France has brought criminal charges and the threat of imprisonment on one of its native citizens for saying on TV that it was an illegal immigrant who raped her and that it's immigrants whom the women of France fear while going about their daily lives.

    For saying that, she faces years in prison and thousands in fines for
    "inciting racial hatred".

    To be clear, she was the one who was raped by the diversity her government inflicted on the country and she's not only had to endure that, but now is facing imprisonment for talking about it.

    https://x.com/silent_morris/status/2067793287499395551?s=20


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  • From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Jun 20 13:26:09 2026
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    On 2026-06-20 12:59 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 20, 2026 at 6:25:38 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    The EU has finally decided to crack down on refugee claimants.

    While at the same time France has brought criminal charges and the threat of imprisonment on one of its native citizens for saying on TV that it was an illegal immigrant who raped her and that it's immigrants whom the women of France fear while going about their daily lives.

    For saying that, she faces years in prison and thousands in fines for "inciting racial hatred".

    To be clear, she was the one who was raped by the diversity her government inflicted on the country and she's not only had to endure that, but now is facing imprisonment for talking about it.

    https://x.com/silent_morris/status/2067793287499395551?s=20


    Frankly, I was shocked that the EU had come together to make the
    decision to hold refugee claims at a distance, exactly because some of
    its most prominent members continue to have policies like the one Macron
    is using to intimidate this woman. I'm still having trouble believing
    the EU will actually carry out the policy they've apparently agreed to.

    The EU is a bizarre institution. I'm sure I've read that the EU
    parliament can neither, create, amend or defeat legislation with all of
    that done in other parts of the EU which are far more opaque. Unless
    that has changed, I don't see how such a policy could be agreed in the Parliament. But maybe there have been some reforms.

    Honestly, I wonder if this is just a bad case of BS reporting where some proposal has been treated as enacted legislation. ... After a bit of
    research, it seems this new legislation has yet to be approved by the 27 members of the EU. I don't know how likely it is to be implemented if
    any one of the 27 countries could veto it as I believe the current rules allow. But maybe legislation isn't allowed to pass until there is an
    informal consensus that all 27 members are on board with the intent of
    the legislation.

    I'm not clear if this legislation affects only new refugee claimants or
    those who are already within the EU borders. Even if the 27 member
    countries approve the legislation, I'd be shocked if the activists don't
    mount court challenges to it, which could easily result in the
    legislation being overturned or delayed while the court cases work their
    way through the system.

    In any case, the various EU countries are still going to be able to have policies like the one Macron is using against the woman raped by the "refugees". They're a long way from being out of the woods yet but
    maybe, just maybe, they've made the first few steps in the right direction.
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    Rhino
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  • From NoBody@NoBody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Sun Jun 21 09:52:10 2026
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    On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:59:11 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Jun 20, 2026 at 6:25:38 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >wrote:

    The EU has finally decided to crack down on refugee claimants.

    While at the same time France has brought criminal charges and the threat of >imprisonment on one of its native citizens for saying on TV that it was an >illegal immigrant who raped her and that it's immigrants whom the women of >France fear while going about their daily lives.

    For saying that, she faces years in prison and thousands in fines for >"inciting racial hatred".

    To be clear, she was the one who was raped by the diversity her government >inflicted on the country and she's not only had to endure that, but now is >facing imprisonment for talking about it.

    https://x.com/silent_morris/status/2067793287499395551?s=20


    Coming to a country near US if libs take power.
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun Jun 21 21:36:31 2026
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    On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:59:11 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    For saying that, she faces years in prison and thousands in fines for >"inciting racial hatred".

    To be clear, she was the one who was raped by the diversity her government >inflicted on the country and she's not only had to endure that, but now is >facing imprisonment for talking about it.

    That's impressive in not so great a way - that's even worse than the
    Lucy Connolly affair in Britain where she posted a message denouncing
    illegal migrants to social media, realized she had gone too far and
    deleted it less than 4 hours later though "naturally" someone took a
    screen shot, gave it to the police with the end result that she was
    sentenced to 3 years and was released between 1/2 to 2/3 of the way
    through.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_zPBS3zrk

    What I'm really surprised at in this case is that the media rarely
    mentions that her husband was and is a Conservative county councillor
    during a period when Labour was in power. I find it hard to imagine
    the wife of a Republican mayor or councillor being imprisoned under
    Biden or vice versa under Trump - but that's how it happened.

    She was not sexually molested but definitely did not get any breaks at
    trial for having lost her only son in early childhood. And no question
    politics was part of determining her length of sentence.
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