ANKARA (Reuters) President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey may have to open the route for migrants into Europe if Ankara does not receive sufficient international support to deal with Syrian refugees.https://news.yahoo.com/turkey-plans-...094142827.html
Madrid (AFP) - More than 150 migrants forced their way into Spain's overseas territory of Ceuta on Friday, hours after 540 people alighted in Greece as pressure on southern European states continues despite an overall drop in arrivals.Gissningsvis återgår affärerna till att plocka afrikaner och menaiter utanför Libyens kust för direkt befordran till Sicilien nu när Italien fått en migrationsvänlig regering som viftar på svansen för Macron.
The mass arrivals come after several charity ships that rescued migrants off the coast of Libya were denied access to Italian ports by outgoing hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini.
On Friday, another such vessel belonging to charity Mediterranea Saving Humans warned of an impending health emergency on board as it was stuck at sea after being banned from entering Italian waters.
On Thursday, Spain's acting deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo said Europe should step in more.https://news.yahoo.com/mass-arrivals...155152083.html
"The countries that don't have maritime borders also need to assume shared responsibility," she told lawmakers.
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In Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta early on Friday, taking advantage of misty weather, 155 migrants stormed the barbed wire border that separates it from Morocco. Some of them clambered over while others broke through a door in the fence.
"They are all from sub-Saharan Africa, the majority from Guinea," a spokesman for the central government's office in Ceuta told AFP.
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This is the first time in a year that migrants have managed to storm the barbed wire fence in Ceuta as a group, the spokesman said.
Once on Spanish territory, they are usually taken to a migrant reception centre where they can ask for asylum.
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In Greece, meanwhile, around 540 migrants arrived Thursday evening on the island of Lesbos on board 13 boats from nearby Turkey, including 240 children.
They were transferred to the cramped Moria migrant camp where there are "nearly 11,000 people for a capacity of just 3,000," medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said.
A Greek diplomatic source, who refused to be named, said Athens had informed the European Union about this "unprecedented rise" in the number of migrants.
Greece has overtaken Spain this year to become the main entry point for migrants seeking to get to Europe.
At least 23,200 people have arrived by sea so far this year, according to the IOM.
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This comes at a period of political limbo in Italy, as the premier designate rushes to form a new left-leaning coalition which could alter Salvini's hardline stance on immigrants.
Earlier this month, Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms faced a similar predicament when Italy refused its ship permission to dock.
The dozens of migrants on board remained stuck at sea for days until an Italian prosecutor ordered they disembark on the island of Lampedusa.
China has instituted an immigration scheme that allows 150 Mainlanders a day to migrate to Hong Kong and local officials have no power to vet or control who comes. Protesters say the program is being administered by the Chinese Communist Party in order to dilute Hong Kong identity and make the island more pro-Beijing.https://www.theamericanconservative....nst-hong-kong/
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Many new immigrants from mainland China tend to support Beijing, while native Hongkongers have been backing the anti-government protests for nearly five solid months.
“China’s government is using immigration from mainland China as a weapon against Hong Kong to make it pro-Beijing,” a young protester who did not want to be identified told this writer.
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Close to 1.5 million mainland Chinese immigrants have moved to the city since Hong Kong became part of China in 1997, and now make up about 20 percent of Hong Kong’s population. “It’s becoming very difficult,” a protester said. “The high number of immigrants drains our public resources—from health care to public housing and education.”
Thousands of pregnant women from mainland China have migrated to Hong Kong because it allowed their children to obtain permanent residency there—including access to public housing and free health care and education.
While a law was passed in 2012 to limit the number of mainland women without Hong Kong ties from coming to the island to give birth, a Chinese think tank has proposed scrapping it so that 25,000 Chinese babies a year can counter the region’s low birth rates.
Hong Kong’s vast and efficient welfare system, combined with a vibrant free market, is a legacy of British rule, which ended in 1997. Hong Kong has since been ranked as having the best health care system in the world by the Bloomberg Healthcare Efficiency Index. But according to critical Hong Kong locals, the drain on medical resources from mainland Chinese immigration has caused significant issues, leaving vulnerable people, like pensioners, without adequate care.
The rise in housing costs has also become an alarming problem, due in part to mainland Chinese elites gobbling up prime real estate.
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Many Hongkongers also worry that mass immigration from mainland China risks threatening the region’s unique culture. “Mass immigration is a deliberate policy by the Chinese government to commit cultural genocide against Hong Kong,” another protester charged. In 2017, Beijing mandated that Chinese history be compulsory for all children ages 12 to 14. One Hong Kong critic at the time called it a policy that “treats history teaching as an ideological weapon that could beat down the anti-Chinese sentiments for Hong Kong independence.”
“The rationale is not pedagogical but patently political, i.e. to foster a blindingly patriotic, triumphalist sense of Chinese identity,” wrote Henry Kwok in October 2017.
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