Europe overwhelmed with migrants
Etias:
As tensions rise across Europe, a growing coalition of European Union (EU) members is calling for a sweeping overhaul of migration laws that they claim no longer reflect the realities of mass movement and security concerns.
In a sharp rebuke to established norms, nine countries—including Italy, Denmark, and Austria—are pressuring the European Court of Human Rights to reinterpret protections for migrants.
Austria has declared current EU asylum laws “not fit for purpose,” blaming them for spikes in youth crime and overwhelmed schools. Chancellor Christian Stocker said that the situation has spiraled, especially due to family reunification rules that allow migrants to bring relatives into the country.
“We all agree that the laws that we have now no longer correspond to their original intention,” Stocker said, calling for reforms to align laws with today’s migration patterns.
His government moved swiftly to limit these rights, aiming to placate a public increasingly frustrated with immigration’s social impacts.
Austria’s foreign minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, doubled down: “EU partners have to wake up and see what the situation is like... we have to find a solution.”
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The problem with open borders is that you lose control over who can come into your country. That has happened in Europe as it happened in the US under the Biden administration. Fortunately, Trump has regained control of the US border and illegal immigration has been reduced to a handful.
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