The Greek government has completed the construction of a 10.5 km fence on the Greek-Turkish border, intended to prevent illegal immigrants crossing into Greece via the Evros crossing.
The project cost € 3 million, borne by the Greek government as the EU, not surprisingly, refused to fund the project, claiming that it did not form “an effective form of combating illegal immigration.”
The structure comprises two parallel fences topped with barbed wire. The fence also has 25 thermal cameras.
The Ekathimerini news source however quoted border guards as reporting that the fence has already had a dramatic effect on curbing migrants, with figures showing a 95 percent reduction in illegals entering Greece via Evros.
A concentration of almost 1,800 border guards also contributed to the reduction. In 2011 100,000 migrants were arrested attempting to cross the border.
Although the fence has lowered numbers of illegals entering Greece in the Evros area, migrants attempting to reach Greece are turning to the more dangerous sea routes.
Most of Greece’s 125-mile border with Turkey, a very popular entry point among Europe-bound immigrants, runs along the Evros River. Stretching from Kastanies to the village of Nea Vyssa, near the northeastern town of Orestiada, the wall is designed to block a short stretch of dry land between the two states.
From the beginning of the year until the end of July, police and coast guard officers on the Aegean islands detained 102 undocumented migrants while more than 10 times that number – 1,536 – were intercepted over the following three months.
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Good for the Greeks. It just goes to show what can be done when a nation is determined to do something.
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Of course the EU would not lift a finger to help them put up border restrictions, as for one they ultimately seek a border-less Europe and for two they love the idea of immigration and “asylum” into the EU. They are proud of it. They are bound to say fences and patrols are ineffective, when the exact opposite is true.
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What is a sad state of affairs for Britain though, is that we have a natural border fence – (the sea) – which has kept us generally free from such border disputes and easy ‘cross overs’. Surely it is easier to safeguard an island than it would be a landlocked state on a mainland section of Europe?
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But of course, the desire and intent to keep them out is not present in Britain. They hide their games through the ideas of it being UKBA incompetency (which has been deliberately created through both policy and underfunding) and through supposedly not being allowed to do anything about it because of EU regulations or such things.
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The government could do what ever it wanted, I am quite sure, if they really wanted to do something about it.
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Other governments look after their own nations interests, such as when both Sarkozy and Hollande smashed up the Roma Gypsy camps and sent thousands packing out of France, or when they set up border forces to try and prevent Italy from dispersing thousands of Africans over the borders, which it was claimed violated the Shengen Agreement.They can bend the ‘rules’ when it suits, yet our government has no such backbone.
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They know that Romanians and Bulgarians (probably not the genuine Bulgarians, but more Roma gypsies who are living in Bulgaria) will be coming next. They know that over 40% of future housing stock is due to immigration already – yet they will sit on their hands and say nothing can be done. Rubbish.
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Enoch Powell, at a conservative conference, once said something along the lines of “People say ‘this’ is not possible and ‘that’ is not possible, but I say that what is in the interests of the British people is *always* possible!”.
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Unfortunately for us, border control is no longer enough though. It is the bare minimum to have our borders pretty much sealed.
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If the will was there, we could perhaps round up all those who have ‘overstayed’ their right to remain throughout the last 30 years, we could re-look at asylum cases and judge many of them safe to return (especially those who have ‘been home’ in the meantime!), deport anyone not born here with a criminal conviction (and their family) for abusing our hospitality (which I think the Swiss SVP were discussing), and possibly even repeal all immigration cases since 1997 when Labour purposefully used the immigration system to change the composition of this country.
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If the will was there, it could be done. However, even that would not be enough now.
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Voluntary repatriation, in combination with making life difficult, or in the case of a major economic downturn, may see some of the rest off if they know and feel that a tide has turned, but even then we would not necessarily be home-free or on the home-stretch to recovery. Add on incentives for a higher indigenous birthrate and that might help, but again, it is a bit of a wing and a prayer.
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“Population transfers” are not historically uncommon either. It is surprising how many instances there have been of it. Unfortunately, it is now against the Geneva convention, the ‘international criminal court’ and various UN codes of conduct to partake in “Population Transfers”. But again, if the will was there by the majority of the British people, something could be done by hook or by crook.
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The main problem we face is that the will is not there to do any of these things – except reduce mass immigration, which still seems highly popular.
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I do not know how to turn any of this situation we find ourselves in around. Maybe it is not possible to fully do so.Yet I do hope that the message and approach of Western Spring can help foster a sense of self worth and self value amongst the British people and to show them that there is sense in what we are saying and that they have every right and duty to resist what is taking place, even if it is through small steps and a slow change of attitude.
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On that score, this site is much more helpful and much more useful than many other sites out there at the moment.