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Bd6r says
made up mostly of womyn welcomed but predominantly male Muslims from Syria and other countries rejected and mistreate
Yeah, so?
I don't see one fucking problem with that.
Norman Spector
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Heh. Leader of QC Conservative Party--while rejecting comparisons to Trump -- is not ruling out a border wall at Roxham Rd.
IMATRA, Finland (Reuters) - Finland is building the first stretch of a fence on its border with Russia on Friday, less than two weeks after it joined the NATO military alliance to complete a security U-turn taken in response to the war in Ukraine.
Fearing retaliation from the east following its NATO application, the government decided last year to construct the barrier, primarily in case Russia moved to flood the border with migrants.
Finland aims to guard against a repeat of events on the European Union’s eastern frontier in Poland in winter 2021, when the bloc accused neighbouring Belarus - a staunch Russian ally - of engineering a crisis by flying in migrants from the Middle East, giving them visas and pushing them across the border.
Made of steel mesh, the Finnish fence is scheduled to cover some 200 kilometres (125 miles) of the most critical parts of its border by the end of 2026. Project manager Ismo Kurki said on Friday that, while it is not intended to stop any invasion attempt, the fence will have surveillance equipment.
It's little better than a rape whistle. The Finns were always crazy - I don't fear for them, but what will happen to all the reindeer (for all the fans of "Rare Exports", a brilliant film)?
Finland is set to tighten its laws for migrants and asylum seekers, with the incoming Interior Minister describing what she saw as the ‘total failure’ of policy in Sweden, and the need to prevent an “economic or security threat to Finland”. ...
Finnish newspaper, YLE, said that the announcement was a ‘u-turn’ and reported the incoming Minister as saying: “We will tighten all the conditions to come to Finland, to stay here and to be in Finland.”
“We have to react here to what we have seen in Sweden. We’re looking to take action to make sure immigration doesn’t cause economic or security threats to Finland,” Ms Rantanen told Yle TV1’s breakfast show Aamu TV.
She described the Swedish immigration policy as a “total failure”.
https://nitter.cz/LinasKojala/status/1564243576275476482#m
Lithuania has finalised building a physical barrier (mostly a 4 m tall steel fence+concertina) on the entire length of border with Belarus (except where natural barriers such as rivers occur). It covered approximately 550km and cost €152mil.
Exhibit B, Poland.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-africa-poland-forests-middle-east-443c8068ea7b5d1d8f6980da6e3879af
A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.
On Friday, Polish authorities will also lift a state of emergency along the border that has blocked journalists, rights workers and others from witnessing a human rights crisis. At the very least, 20 migrants have died in the area’s freezing forests and bogs.
The Polish government characterizes the wall as part of the fight against Russia; human rights defenders see it as representing a huge double standard, with groups of white Christian refugees from Ukraine made up mostly of womyn welcomed but predominantly male Muslims from Syria and other countries rejected and mistreated.
Cost was 353 million euro ($407m) for wall, which is 5.5 metres (18 feet) high along 186km (115 miles) of its northern frontier with Belarus.
Exhibit C, Hungary.
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/hungary-has-stopped-over-54000-people-crossing-border-illegally-so-far-this-year/
Minister Szijjártó shared a video published by US channel FOX News host Tucker Carlson, recorded in Hungary. In the video, Carlson emphasized the country’s government’s decision to erect a border fence along the Central European country’s southern borders “in the face of great international pressure” to respond to the 2015 migrant crisis.
According to Clarson, that “wall had effectively ended illegal migration into the country.”
Exhibit D, Estonia.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/estonia-fortifies-its-border-with-russia/
Estonia is constructing a new steel fence on its southeast border facing Russia, following steps other Baltic countries and Poland have already taken to ‘fortify’ their borders.
In a secretive project, Estonia is close to finishing the first 23 kilometres of a 2.5-metre high fence made of steel and equipped with barbed wire – the first step in a long process to modernise the whole border control apparatus.
The Estonian project is another example of countries strengthening their borders in the wake of the 2015 refugee crisis. Only Finland, Slovakia and Romania have not modernised their eastern border since the crisis, according to YLE.
Exhibit E, Finland: calls grow for mining of the border with Russia. Probably the most efficient deterrent for people wandering across border.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/all/short_news/growing-calls-for-finland-to-withdraw-from-ottawa-mine-ban-treaty/
The war in Ukraine is making politicians and citizens think again about Finland’s signing of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty of 1997 to eliminate anti-personnel landmines by November 2011.
Without giving out detailed information, the Defence Forces have apparently developed a new deterrent to replace the banned mines. However, the pressure to resign from the Ottawa Treaty is gaining ground. A citizens’ initiative on the matter was launched on 24 February. The needed 50,000 signatures for the initiative to enter parliamentary consideration is expected to be reached this week.
Somewhat surprisingly, President Sauli Niinistö said there might be use for mines in the future in an interview with broadcaster YLE.
Exhibit F, Latvia:
https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/18/poland-belarus-latvia-to-install-temporary-fence-as-migrant-crisis-escalates
Latvia has said it is installing a 37 kilometres-long temporary fence on its border with Belarus, which should be completed by next week as the migrant crisis on the Polish border makes headlines.
The installation of barbed wire on the Latvian-Belarus border has been delayed because of issues with the company delivering the actual fence.
But now the temporary fence is almost completed – only six kilometres are left to cover.
Latvia is also considering installing a permanent fence of about 130 kilometres by 2024. The company to construct it will be selected in February, said Minister of Interior Marija Golubeva.
"On speakers, we play loud announcements in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Russian that entering the territory of Latvia illegally is subject to criminal liability. Most of the time it is enough and it's hoped they will return voluntarily," said deputy chief of the State Border Guard, Juris Kusins.
The Belarus State Border Committee has accused Lithuanian border guards to use dogs to keep migrants away in unverified footage. Lithuanian officials have strongly denied these allegations.
Exhibit G, Bulgaria:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/bg-border-fence.htm
Bulgaria returned to its Cold War days as it worked to rebuild the Soviet-era barbed wire fence along its border with Turkey to stop migrants hoping for a new life in Europe. The fence was constructed to seal Bulgaria's entire border to prevent the country becoming the new gateway to Europe. The local authorities hoped to put off the families fleeing war and terror in Syria, Iraq and North Africa from trying to enter Europe via Bulgaria.
Number of border walls keeps growing: