Dear All
People trafficking is big business, the traffickers can make
millions of pounds transporting people to Europe,
it is a criminal enterprise is which assisted by corruption and those who have
an agenda who work in NGO’s. NGO’s are Non-Governmental Organisations which
take money from various sources including governments. What isn’t well known is
the scale that the NGO employees have actively assisted the traffickers in
their smuggling operations. Awhile back, I talked about the need for the
creation of an EU border force because what is needed to stop human trafficking
is a multi-nation approach. The purpose of the EU border force is not to pick
up illegal migrants in boats to take them to Europe, but to take them back to Africa or their embarkation point.
While the governments under the EU remain weak, the stem of
migrants has no chance of being halted, and there is no political EU will to do
what is needed. Immigration was a factor in the UK voting to leave the EU, along
with other issues. What hasn’t stopped since we voted to leave is illegal immigration
to the UK, either the UK coastguard
has to be beefed up, or the job falls to the Royal Navy to provide maritime security.
Anyone picked up in the English Channel should be returned to France, the UK government should not allow
asylum claims by changing the law from people who have travelled form an EU
country. In order to claim Asylum, you have to claim it at the first country
you arrive at, that is the way the system works. Migrants are passing through
many EU countries to get to ones they believe will financially benefit them
such as the EU.
In order to stamp out human trafficking and corruption;
penalties for people who human traffic must be severe, long tariff imprisonment
and total asset confiscation. To those in NGO’s who assist, they are equally as
guilty as the criminals who run these organisations. Their punishment must be
the same; only by using the law to the maximum will we see a curtailment of the
corruption. In a breaking story, a total of 35 people, 33 of them workers from
four separate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), have been implicated by
Greek police in helping to smuggle illegal migrants to the Aegean island of Lesbos.
Lesbos is a migrant gateway
which has been over run by violent thugs, the situation has overwhelmed the civil
authorities which is why a military solution is needed. One thing which is
noticeable; is that the media is to blame for making politicians refusing to do
what is needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UmaN-QR1Q
You can find other clips of how the situation has got out of
hand such as this clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9jco3f8_9M
In the police investigation, so far, we have found out that 33
of the NGO workers are said to come from a variety of countries including Austria, Germany,
Norway, France, Switzerland
and Spain.
Two of the others arrested said to be migrants from Iran
and Pakistan
working for the NGO’s. Greek investigators say the crime group started their
activities in June of 2019 and that between them they had facilitated at least
32 border illegal border crossings that saw an estimated 3,000 asylum seekers
enter the country. In the world of trafficking, high tech is used to coordinate
crime, the group used private internet groups and messaging applications to
coordinate information on where migrant boats would leave and arrive on Lesbos. In this case, the NGO members worked with people
traffickers in order to get information on migrant boats leaving the Turkish
coast, including coordinates and how many migrants were on board the ships.
Rather than pass the information to authorities, they kept quiet. How many
criminals and terrorists did this group process?
As well as the police investigation, other agencies of the
Greek government were involved such as the Mytilene Security Sub-Directorate, the
Greek National Intelligence Service and the Counter-Terrorism Service. Given
the previous history of bad blood between Turks and Greeks, it is no surprise
that traffickers are using this route into Europe.
Greek Naval involvement in Turkish territorial waters would not be tolerated. Turkey has long been a problem being a gateway
country which the Turks have paid lip service to stop the trek through their
country to Europe. The only people they take
an interest in stopping is Kurds, because these people claim various sections
of land from southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern
Iraq, and northern Syria in a bid to one day have a country called Kurdistan.
Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis
commented on the cases saying that illegal activity form NGOs would not be
tolerated. He also added that reducing migrant flows and the role of NGOs is a
“top priority” for the current government. This can only be accomplished by a
naval solution, which means military.
In a UK
perspective, what is required is our own military solution, new directives on
refusal, and law changes were required. Migrant boats arrive on the English
coast; this should never be allowed to happen, not in a high tech world we live
in. As people know the English Channel is one
of the busiest shipping channels in the world. While the law remains as is;
abuse of the system which has been known about for years goes on. The asylum
system has been circumvented, in order to fix it; we need harsh measures for
bogus claims. Anyone caught placed in temporary camps until transferred to a
third country, only from here can their asylum claim be processed. At present
politicians fearful of being labelled racists by opposition parties farm out
their responsibilities to others. But the time to act is coming because this is
one can which is rapidly running out of road to be kicked down.
Yours sincerely
George Laird The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
1 comment:
I'm against illegal immigration for these reasons (and no, not "they took our jobs" or racism).
1) It encourages human trafficking and slavery.
2) Illegal immigrants have no rights if they're here illegally, and so they can't go to the authorities for help, making it easy for people to exploit them.
3) When it comes to the "jobs" situation, it's not just undercutting by unscrupulous business owners/leaders they're also denied the rights of British workers, having to work longer hours for less pay, which is technically discrimination.
We can blather on about 'oh but "we created it through climate change/war/imperialism/whatever' but that really allows us to turn a blind eye to these facts that our white man's burden disguised as concern is simply prolonging their suffering. For asylum seekers, there needs to be a better system to process and distribute them properly to safe places (UK or otherwise) without compromising the safety of the population of the UK (I'm referring chiefly to ISIS moles).
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