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Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk)
Governments are using migrants' smartphones to deport them. From a report: Across the continent, migrants are being confronted by a booming mobile forensics industry that specialises in extracting a smartphone's messages, location history, and even WhatsApp data. That information can potentially be turned against the phone owners themselves. In 2017 both Germany and Denmark expanded laws that enabled immigration officials to extract data from asylum seekers' phones. Similar legislation has been proposed in Belgium and Austria, while the UK and Norway have been searching asylum seekers' devices for years.
Following right-wing gains across the EU, beleaguered governments are scrambling to bring immigration numbers down. Tackling fraudulent asylum applications seems like an easy way to do that. As European leaders met in Brussels last week to thrash out a new, tougher framework to manage migration -- which nevertheless seems insufficient to placate Angela Merkel's critics in Germany -- immigration agencies across Europe are showing new enthusiasm for laws and software that enable phone data to be used in deportation cases. Admittedly, some refugees do lie on their asylum applications.
Following right-wing gains across the EU, beleaguered governments are scrambling to bring immigration numbers down. Tackling fraudulent asylum applications seems like an easy way to do that. As European leaders met in Brussels last week to thrash out a new, tougher framework to manage migration -- which nevertheless seems insufficient to placate Angela Merkel's critics in Germany -- immigration agencies across Europe are showing new enthusiasm for laws and software that enable phone data to be used in deportation cases. Admittedly, some refugees do lie on their asylum applications.
Hitler was a leftist too.
the economy's weak globally because the post WII gains have shifted back to the ruling class. That puts pressure everywhere creating refugees like crazy. Refugees for their part are being forced out of their country instead of willingly immigrating. That means they don't integrate into the host society and threaten to overwhelm it. If you're in Europe right now you just spent the last 200 years secularizing and suddenly you've got millions of religious fundamentalists flooding in.
The correct solution is to start attacking the root cause of the refugee problem, which is mostly European and (especially) American meddling in the middle east. To do that we need more energy independence and we need to end the bloody wars (8 countries and counting that America is bombing...).
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Essentially all are fake, including Syrians. You are not a refugee if you can go to a safe place in your country and there are lots of safe places in Syria.
Very naturally "right wing" parties will gain in popularity and then send back home illegals.
And i am all for it.
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"refugees" = illegal aliens
"open borders" = a forced collapse of the nation state