Migrant crisis Morocco-Spain

[tupac1403]

Since nobody in this board has been talkin about it yet I searched for a link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4321390.stm

I also read somewhere that this border between the "3rd world" and Europe has already been compared to the Iron Curtain from the cold war

 

[tupac1403]

Since nobody in this board has been talkin about it yet I searched for a link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4321390.stm

I also read somewhere that this border between the "3rd world" and Europe has already been compared to the Iron Curtain from the cold war

 

[tupac1403]

So that's not interesting at all for y'all??

 

[Sebastian]

well i heard about it in the news of course but dont really know what to say.

seems like the spanish police handles the situation pretty good, well at least they try to and dont give the instruction to shoot the immigrants or something.lol

 

[RFTP]

seems like the spanish police handles the situation pretty good, well at least they try to and dont give the instruction to shoot the immigrants or something.lol

That would be italy.

 

[Amara]

That does sound tough, but increasingly (or maybe it's always been the case) states are taking a hard-lined stance toward illegal immigration. We hear about it constantly in Australia - fears over refugees, assylum seekers and 'boat people' etc. In some sense I can understand the reasons why governments are concerned because they have a duty to handle migration in an official way, nevertheless people do seem to be treated with a distinct lack of humanity. In Australia we have a system of mandatory detention, which isnt so much of an issue by itself, but people are held for years on end, often in less than satisfactory conditions. I can understand the need to prevent a mass influx of people but sometimes it seems that we forget we are dealing with people - human beings whose concern is merely looking a better kind of life, which everyone deserves.

 

[tupac1403]

May be I was a little late to recognize where the borders between the two different "worlds" exist, but with the incidents in the exclaves I first got a real picture of the north-south conflict which displaced the west vs. east (Cold War) conflict.
It's not like I didn't know about the world order etc. but it came back to my mind when I saw the thousends of Africans tryin to cross to Europe in a search for a better life. And even if many of them didn't make it to Europe they did attrect attention which is positive. Suddenly every EU politician got to deal with the problems which existed for years on another level and the answer cannot be found in improving the borders railings.
All in all it's again another sign of young black males - most of em are between 20 and 30 years old - knocking at the door to get a piece of the action. (And that remembers me of that somebody who this whole community/forum is dedicated to).

To me it's also pretty frightening how these educated men are treated by moroccan & spanish police and how much they got to suffer for their goals and wishes - but I guess that is also nothing new.
Any other opinions?