{"id":15479,"date":"2024-11-26T02:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15479"},"modified":"2024-11-26T02:11:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:11:30","slug":"if-you-think-trumps-migration-policies-are-extreme-look-at-the-eus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15479","title":{"rendered":"If you think Trump\u2019s migration policies are extreme, look at the EU\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Migration has been at the forefront for Europe\u2019s politicians since 2015, when more than a million migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, made their way to the bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the ensuing decade, the EU collective has shifted from the \u201cwe can do it\u201d stance of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel to trying to shoo new arrivals away from the EU border altogether. In 2023&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dtm.iom.int\/europe\/arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer than 300,000<\/a>&nbsp;people made it to the continent; this year the EU\u2019s border agency, Frontex, estimates about 160,000 migrants have reached Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, nearly a dozen European countries have instituted some form of border restrictions in an attempt to deter migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland this month announced a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-migration-rebellion-poland-vow-block-asylum-seeker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temporary halt<\/a>&nbsp;to processing asylum requests from migrants arriving from neighboring Belarus, invoking a security threat. Germany\u2019s Olaf Scholz instituted border controls this summer to stop undocumented migrants from crossing into Germany after a Syrian man stabbed eleven people, killing three. Six other countries, including Italy, France and Austria, have introduced border checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-eu-migration-policy-viktor-orban-muslims-ban\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-eu-migration-policy-viktor-orban-muslims-ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Migration has been at the forefront for Europe\u2019s politicians since 2015, when more than a million migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, made their way to the bloc.<br \/>\nIn the ensuing decade, the EU collective has shifted from the \u201cwe can do it\u201d stance of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel to trying to shoo new arrivals away from the EU border altogether. In 2023 fewer than 300,000 people made it to the continent; this year the EU\u2019s border agency, Frontex, estimates about 160,000 migrants have reached Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, nearly a dozen European countries have instituted some form of border restrictions in an attempt to deter migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Poland this month announced a temporary halt to processing asylum requests from migrants arriving from neighboring Belarus, invoking a security threat. Germany\u2019s Olaf Scholz instituted border controls this summer to stop undocumented migrants from crossing into Germany after a Syrian man stabbed eleven people, killing three. Six other countries, including Italy, France and Austria, have introduced border checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-eu-migration-policy-viktor-orban-muslims-ban\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,923,25,170],"class_list":["post-15479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15480,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions\/15480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}