German government dragging its feet on admitting
migrants they promised to take, by Ann Corcoran, 10/22/18.
Invasion of Europe news…And, German hypocrisy alert!
Well
what do you know, Germany made a big show a few months back when it said it
would take migrants from ships docked in Italy and Malta. Those countries were
not letting the wannabe Europeans disembark until other countries promised to
take them. Now we learn that 115 are still in Italy and Malta as Germany must
thoroughly screen them!
In a Mediterranean ship version of
whack-a-mole, the German ‘Sea-Watch’ migrant transport ship will be back in
business soon!
From Deutsche Welle: Rescued migrants in limbo while waiting
for resettlement in Germany
One hundred and fifteen migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean
Sea have been waiting for months in Italy and Malta for Germany to take them in
as promised, the German government has said.
The
migrants needed to undergo a medical examination, be registered and attend
interviews before they could be transferred to Germany, according to a
statement made in response to an enquiry by German parliamentarians of the Left
party. They
also required checking by German intelligence services before the German federal refugee agency BAMF could arrange
a transfer, the statement added.
What will Italy’s Salvini say? We will
be watching! It said some of the migrants were saved by two military ships on
July 13 and taken to Sicily, and others rescued by the NGO ship Aquarius on
August 10 and brought to Malta. Italy
and Malta allowed them to disembark only after other EU member states had
promised to take them in.
Ulla
Jelpke, a spokeswoman for the Left’s parliamentary party, commended Berlin for
having pledged to take in the migrants, but called for quick action to fulfill
the promise.
“There
is no plausible reason for their entry to be put off because of bureaucratic
measures,” she said. Several
other EU states have already received the migrants they pledged to take.
Meanwhile,
they are baaaacck! At least one NGO migrant transport ship will soon be back in
business on the hunt for African migrants launching from the coast of North
Africa.
In another related development, the German NGO Sea-Watch said on
Saturday that its vessel Sea-Watch 3 would return to migrant rescue operations after Malta allowed it to sail to
Spain for maintenance work, having impounded it for three months.
Sea-Watch
accused Malta of having acted “without any legal basis” and said more than 500
people had drowned at sea while the ship was being “illegally detained.” More here.
For
posts extending as far back as ten years, see my ‘Invasion of Europe’
file, click here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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