🔴 UN Organization launched campaign to receive 7.9 BILLION to 'protect illegal immigrants'
>https://archive.is/zAn1W

🔸 UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched its first appeal to raise $7.9 billion to boost its efforts to protect illegal immigrants, limit the 'displacement of civilians' and 'expand legal migration routes'

🔸 "There is strong evidence that migration, when properly regulated, contributes greatly to global prosperity and progress [...] Above all (this money) will help expand IOM's development work, which will help it prevent further displacement" — Amy Pope, head of the IOM

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🇬🇷☦️❌🏳️‍🌈 Greek Church Condemns Bill to Legalise Same-Sex Marriage

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece unanimously agreed at a meeting on Tuesday that it is “strongly opposed” to the Greek government’s promised bill on same-sex marriage and adoption.

“The initiators of the bill and those who agree with it are promoting the abolition of fatherhood and motherhood and their transformation into neutral parenthood, the disappearance of gender roles within the family and the placing of the sexual choices of homosexual adults above the interests of future children,” the Holy Synod said in a press release.

The conservative New Democracy government has promised to bring forward a bill allowing same-sex civil marriages, although it is still unclear when it will be tabled.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Greek public broadcaster ERT that the bill will also give same-sex couples the right to adopt, but not to have children through surrogacy.

🔗 https://balkaninsight.com/2024/01/23/greek-church-condemns-bill-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage/

🔴 Greek Ministry of Immigration calls for increased policing in immigrant camps
>https://archive.is/l9tM7

🔸 The Ministry wrote a letter calling for the increase of Policing in immigration camps due to juvenile delinquency surge among immigrants

‼️ Sadly most of the letter's proposal ask for half measures, most of them being 'more education', 'more professional supervision of minors' and many other "solutions" that have nothing to do with preventing or punishing wrongdoing

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🟢 The current Greek Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Daniel Esdras, is the former head of the UN's IOM (International Organization of Migration) and ever since he was appointed as a minister, the reports and actions of the immigration ministry have become a lot more permissive and contribute more to increase immigration rather than to prevent it

👉 Previous post on who Daniel Esdras is
👉 Previous post on IOM asking for more money for more immigration programs

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🔴 What are Greek Farmers demanding
>https://archive.is/yruO0

🔺 Reduction of production costs with measures such as:

👉 Establishment of rural tax-free oil

👉 Ceiling of 7 cents/Kwh in the agro-livestock stream

👉 Subsidy of means, supplies and animal feed and abolition of VAT

👉 The New CAP should not be implemented and renegotiated

👉 Replenishment of lost income in crops that have a production loss that is not covered by ELGA as well as plant and animal products that were sold below production costs. Compensation from ELGA for all damages and diseases at 100% of the actual damage and not the insured value

👉 Measures to be taken and controls to be carried out by the Government to stop the "Hellenization" of plant, animal & beekeeping products

👉 Prices that cover production costs so that we have income for our livelihood and cultivation needs

👉 Infrastructure projects for the anti-flood shielding of the Country.

‼️ Other demands about floods HERE

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🔴 After a fight at an immigrant camp in Serres, immigrants threw rocks at the ambulance
>https://archive.is/wrOKL

🔸 Recently riots and fights have become very common in immigrant camps in Greece, this week started with yet another fight, two immigrants were injured

‼️ As soon as the ambulance arrived, it was attacked with rocks, damaging the vehicle and causing injury to the driver who was later also examined

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🟢 It's impressive how society tolerates the existence of these camps in Greece, from destruction of olive groves, destruction of virgin forests to build more camps, crime increase and endless violence both inside and outside the camps. All of it paid by honest citizens, allowing their taxpayer money to be wasted with people who hate Greece, Greeks and contribute nothing to this great country

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🔴 Gavdos, the Greek Lampedusa?
>https://archive.is/EDkD2

🔸 Gerd Heller from Deutsche Welle, points out that recent numbers show that the Greek island of Gavdos, south of Crete, has become popular among immigrant smugglers. The island is under the administration of Chania, a region of the island of Crete.

🔸 The number of illegal immigrants aiming for Crete has increased in the first weeks of 2024, out of those illegal immigrants, most of them arrived in Gavdos and were then transferred to Crete.

‼️ 612 illegal immigrants arrived in Gavdos within the first 7 weeks of the year

‼️ The island has a total native population of 120 residents

🔸 Crete/Gavdos is not only targeted by north african smugglers but it is also a place where smugglers from Turkey choose to go in case their journey from the Turkish coast towards Italy does not go as planned or simply as a way to save resources while delivering the immigrants to Europe

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🔴 EUROPOL took down a ring of smugglers operating from Germany, Belgium and France
>https://archive.is/DAFDl

🔸 The operation was named Task Force Wave, and had around 600 police officers in total working on it

🔸 The gang smuggled immigrants from continental Europe to the UK

‼️ 28 locations in Germany were raided and 12 boats
🔺179 life jackets and dozens of children's jackets seized
🔺 11 outboard motors
🔺 10 engines
🔺 almost 60 electronic devices
⚠️ Firearms were also seized

‼️ The leader of the Iraqi-Kurdish Gang along with five other high rank individuals have been arrested

🔸 A total of 19 people were arrested

🔸 The gang bought cheap inflatable boats from China and imported them to Germany in a complex operation, they transported the boats by car to Belgium where they would transport immigrants

‼️ The gang charged between €1000 and €3000 per person

🟢 /GBG/ - It's almost as if they want to show some work before the elections

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🔴 2023 broke a 7 year record of Asylum Applications
>https://archive.is/dOkbk

🔸 According with the EUAA (European Union Agency for Asylum), 2023 broke a 7 year record with over 1.14 million, the most Asylum Applications since 2016 which was considered to be the height of the immigration crisis with 1.3 million between 2015 and 2016

🔸 Most applicants declared to be Afghans and Syrians. It was a 18% increase from 2022

‼️ Countries with the most applications:
🇩🇪 Germany received the most applications - 334,000
🇫🇷 France - 167,000
🇪🇸 Spain - 162,000
🇮🇹 Italy - 136,000

‼️ Countries with the most applications proportionally
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇦🇹 Austria
🇬🇷 Greece

‼️ Cyprus received the most applications proportionally, 12000, representing 1 for every 78 inhabitants, Germany in comparison, received 1 for every 252 inhabitants. The EU average is 1 for every 400

👉 Previous post: 2022 had the most applications since 2016

👉 Next post on this subject

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🔴 2023 immigration by countries of origin

🔸 Across Europe, Syrians* made 181 000 Asylum applications, Afghans** followed with 114 000 applications (11% less than in 2022) and Turks have filed 101 000 applications (81% more than 2022, mostly in Germany)

‼️ The approval rate in 2023 was the highest since 2016, with around 46% of applications being accepted (applicants can appeal and resubmit again while still in Europe, a process that generally takes over two years)

⚠️‼️* 80% of applications from so called Syrians are approved, which is why many immigrants claim to be Syrian in order to receive asylum, although they have a few more obstacles to receive citizenship and permanent residency, interviews from as back as 2016 showed Pakistanis and even sub-saharan africans claiming to be Syrians

⚠️‼️ ** 61% of applications from so called Afghans are approved and they receive refugee status due to supposed persecution by the Taliban

👉 Previous post on this subject

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🔴 Almost 5.000 applications for new residency permit in Greece
>https://archive.is/11LGt

🔸 In 2023, Greece approved the law 5078/2023, which in its article 193 allows that illegal immigrants that had been living in Greece for at least three years prior to the creation of the law can get a Residence Permit as long as they have a Job Offer and clean criminal history

🔸 According with the reports, until last week over 800 of the 4790 applications had been approved and the rest were still under evaluation

‼️ The law got into effect in February 2024, therefore in a little over a month there were already 5000 applications

👉 The law itself and even Art. 193 is too extensive to be fully explained in this post since this article alone has 13 paragraphs, the full text of the law can be read here (in Greek)

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🟢 The move looks more like an attempt to get voters and artificially reduce the number of illegal immigrants in the country for the statistics than anything else

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🔴 Island of Gavdos declares state of emergency with increased flow of immigrants
>https://archive.is/S7HfC

🔸 Gavdos is a Greek island south of Crete, with a total of 120 native residents

🔸 The mayor of Gavdos declared an emergency this week after once again the flow of immigrants to the island increased

‼️ Between Monday night and early Tuesday, the island experienced the arrival of 91 illegal immigrants, 64 of them being adult men while 23 claim to be minors, most of them claim to be Egyptian and some are from Bangladesh

‼️ Arrivals of illegal immigrants have become a daily occurrence in the island since last saturday and the island has probably received well over 1000 illegal immigrants this year alone

👉 Previous post on Gavdos situation

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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️

🔴 Over 400 illegal immigrants arrived to Cyprus on Monday
>https://archive.is/Vc1g0

🔸 The 458 illegal immigrants arrived to Cyprus in 6 boats that departed from Lebanon

‼️ 244 are adult men, 44 women and 170 are "minors" (the distribution between the six boats is oddly balanced)

💵 The immigrants paid € 3.000 each for the two smugglers, namely a 31 year old Lebanese man and a 23 year old Syrian

‼️ All of the immigrants on these boats claim to be from Syria, a common way to guarantee Asylum

🧮 Quantities by Boat:
⛵️1️⃣ — 30 total - 18 men, 3 women, 7 'children', 2 "minors"
⛵️2️⃣ — 24 total - 14 men, 3 women, 5 'children', 2 "minors"
⛵️3️⃣ — 62 total - 36 men, 6 women, 11 'children', 9 "minors"
⛵️4️⃣ — 37 total - 14 men, 4 women, 18 'children', 1 "minor"
⛵️5️⃣ — 22 total - 14 men, 1 woman, 3 'children', 4 "minors"
⛵️6️⃣ — 283 total - 162 men, 27 women, 79 'children', 15 "minors"

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🔴 New 7.4 Billion EU immigration deal and Greek Ministry of Immigration still lying about reduced immigration
>https://archive.is/VP0tH
>https://archive.is/i3smZ

‼️ The EU has signed a € 7.4 Billion Euros immigration deal with Egypt. € 5 Billions in Soft Loans, € 1.8 Billion as investments for the private sector, € 600 Million in grants and € 200 Million for immigration management

🔸 The deal is significant since many smugglers and the immigrants themselves either go through Egypt to reach Libya and other North African countries to depart towards Europe or go to Europe directly from Egypt. Egypt also is a far more honorable ally than Turkey

🔸 Meanwhile the Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, Dimitris Keiridis claims illegal immigration dropped 70% in the upper Aegean and 90% in Evros claiming Egypt has played a major role, insane claims given how both 2023 and 2024 have registered the highest number of immigrants since 2016

👉 Previous post on record high immigration levels

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🔴 Turkey to suspend implementation of Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe
>https://archive.is/ShaA4

🔸 Turkey announced that it will suspend the implementation of the CFE Treaty. It means that Turkey will abolish the ceilings of forces and armaments imposed by the treaties as well as the mutual checks to ensure that countries were complying with the ceilings and the guidelines for destruction and withdraw of war materials

‼️ This comes a while after Russia withdrew from the treaty which caused NATO to declare its 'freezing' as the relevance of the treaty without Russia is reduced significantly

‼️ It is still not known if Greece will follow suit and also suspend or withdraw from the treaty since there has been an increasing arms race between Greece and Turkey for the past few years

🔸 The treaty itself only aims at avoiding accumulation of military forces and armaments as well as to create checks and balances between Western countries and those from the Warsaw Pact

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