Posts by Rachel Reyes93

Maria James40 said:showing up to meetings with Canada and Canada😁

You think it's that easy, just "showing up"? Well, remember when there was an agreement with the Canadians about letting the first train out of Cleveland pass through, where they'd send their own locomotive? And what happened? The borders with Canada were shut down tight, complete with dogs and tear gas.

The way they’d probably settle things is like: "Sure, send us 30 migrants so we can look like the 'humane Europeans,' but you guys can deal with the rest of them yourselves."

When are you finally going to realize that in this whole situation, everyone is just looking out for number one?.....

Canada hasn't handled this situation at all. And honestly, it doesn't seem like they want to. They just keep blaming us for sending refugees their way. They don't want them, but their official statements are starting to border on delusional. It’s like they think we’re manufacturing these people just to dump them on them. That they're coming from us, and then we're handing them over. To them, that's just impossible to wrap their heads around. So, who's actually crazy here? They're pointing fingers at us because the refugees are heading toward them!

They didn't honor any of the agreements and just dumped all the blame on our shoulders.
How is it our fault? Everything is their problem, but we aren't allowed to be part of the solution.

Canada just refuses to face reality. Personally, I find that kind of politics pretty pathetic.
Everyone is offering them help, but so far, we haven't seen any actual cooperation.

I'm really curious to see how that meeting with the European Commission goes the day after tomorrow.

wanderingbadger77 said:First off, our politicians need to get their heads out of their asses and realize we aren't some North American union; we’re a full-fledged member of the European Union. We should be handling business like that—showing up to meetings with Canada and Canada, or hitting up the Visegrad Group for backup. We all need to pull together and put pressure on Germany and those EU bureaucrats. Look how fast the Canadians managed to pull a meeting together. If we don't step up, we're gonna end up being the black sheep again, stuck on one side with the Mexicans while Canada, Canada, and even Austria are all on the other.
And honestly, this cozying up with the Mexicans? I'm not feeling it at all. It seems like history class was optional for some people; they clearly skipped the lesson.

I'm pretty much on board with everything here, except for the part about Canada being the reason they called this session. That meeting was already on the books, but the Canadians are just acting like they pulled it out of thin air.
Canada makes a ton of noise, while we just sit there quietly, and I guess that's why we always lose out.

Germany is moving up its stricter asylum laws, which basically make it way easier to deport people whose political asylum claims get rejected. It was supposed to kick in on November 1st, but they announced in Berlin on Friday that it’s actually starting this Saturday.

"The various states will be working alongside federal agencies over the next few days to ramp up deportations for those denied asylum in Germany. They've already started organizing charter flights from several different German airports to handle this," said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière while announcing the measure would take effect tomorrow.

Peter Altmeier, the head of the Chancellery who recently took charge of coordinating the response to the refugee crisis, told ABC that moving up the timeline for being tougher on rejected asylum seekers and economic migrants sends a really clear message.

It's probably the only thing that actually works. I just hope they don't start targeting countries in the North America.

Robert Moore10 said:You're totally out of the loop here. We're neighbors again... just regular folks living side-by-side.

– We have to cooperate because refugees will come and go, but neighbors stay. We need the best possible relations because we live right next to each other. We don't always have to agree or even like each other, but we have to work together. Good relations are essential for the security and interests of both nations, said Stevens.

I mean, sure, driving them straight from Shida to SB is probably great for them, but this whole thing is just way too much of a riddle for me to solve... the sailors probably know more than we do.

I kind of feel like they're doing this just so people aren't stuck waiting at our border with Mexico, since that would probably give us a pretty bad reputation.

Honestly, in the meantime, I feel like I should probably be charging for travel because this whole thing is clearly going to drag on forever. I mean, people pay for transport everywhere else, but here we’re just out here covering our own costs like it’s nothing.

wanderingbadger77 said:Oh yeah, we're just great, honestly makes me sick how "honest" we are.

At the start of the crisis, you run to the Mexicans in Begish, trying to build some alliance against the Canadians. Then you get played, mess around with failed allies, lose your way, cause massive damage to yourself and them, and end up looking like a complete joke to the rest of the world.
Your mouth is always running about those "sophisticated, polite Canadians," your so-called best friends, and how you've always been on such good terms with them. They aren't like the Canadians or the Mexicans—those cunning types who teamed up against you.

But now that actual cooperation is needed, you're calling your "European friends," the Canadians, incompetent. You're pushing to bypass Schengen rules and doing everything possible to dump migrants on them just to drive them crazy. I don't know why you won't just "play the game" a little, man.

Now you're back at square one, just with different players involved. Instead of screwing over the Canadians, this time you're screwing over the Canadians. You're doing well for once. Why? Who knows. We'll see.

Whatever, we'll wait until Sunday. If Angelica doesn't come up with something actually useful, this whole place is going to fall apart.

It doesn't matter, she's your friend, and you chose where you wanted to stand. Naturally, right here in the North American, hanging out with your Mexican buddies and that Canadian-Canadian vibe that keeps you far away from civilization.

Our whole idea of "integrity" pretty much boils down to avoiding becoming a hot spot, so I don't really buy all these political speeches about friends and enemies. It's all just adapting to the situation and trying to squeeze out whatever benefit you can for yourself. The only real goal is to avoid turning into a hot spot if at all possible.

Once this all settles down—who knows how long that'll take, maybe I'm being naive, but I'd like to think it will happen, even if it's not soon—things will eventually go back to normal.

wanderingbadger77 said:Kolinda helped him out.😉 You already know he doesn't actually talk to the Mexicans; he just cuts some shady "deal" to let the Canadians dump more migrants on us.

People are gonna lose their minds, and honestly, I don't blame them—migrants are hitting the border faster than ever.😠

We’re honestly so spineless. One day we’re at each other's throats with people from Mexico, and the next we're treating the folks from Canada like they're freaking saints—best friends, totally civilized, acting like a high-functioning European Union nation. Now, suddenly, it’s a total 180-degree flip. Honestly, who can even trust us anymore? We change our minds and our allies way too damn fast.😲

I’m not expecting any friendships to pop up here, because we already figured that out. It’s all just about self-interest. We tried to work things out with the Austrians, but they just kept attacking us. They basically want us to fly them over through Austria via plane, and they won't even look at any other options.
I guess I'm not even surprised by how the Austrians are acting; they were never really on our side and have always been pretty lousy neighbors to us.

They freak out if everything isn't going exactly their way. Things can't always run perfectly according to their plan, and then they just lash out at us again. Even if we offered them half the Atlantic Ocean, they'd probably still find a reason to attack us; they only care about themselves. So, I guess we aren't really the ones to blame for the fighting.

These are extreme circumstances, and I suppose you have to act according to what's happening right now, which means changing how we deal with our neighbors. There's no such thing as friendship here. Everyone is just fighting so they don't turn into a hot spot.

Peter Reed70 said:So I'm scrolling through some local news in St. Louis and just read that the protest against that refugee camp totally flopped—apparently only about a hundred people showed up.

So, according to this, they’re planning to use that camp during the winter months, which basically implies that the facility at Opatovac might get shut down or will only be used if the camp in Pittsburgh gets completely overwhelmed.

The government decided to temporarily activate it so it can serve as a transit center for migrants during the winter months.

It’s not like I’m terrified of things getting heated, but you constantly hear about how Greece and Italy are supposed to be the main hotspots, and the idea is that having a hotspot right here in the middle of America isn't really the solution.

Then you look at Canada, where they basically bullied their way into a meeting with the ECB to demand help and talk about their own issues. We didn't make nearly as much noise, so I guess we didn't get that kind of treatment. Seems like a major oversight to me.

Gary Perez7 said:What I find most infuriating is when someone treats you like an idiot—when they know damn well you see through their nonsense, yet they push the agenda anyway.
Merkel calls for everyone to come to Germany, claiming they'll take in as many as necessary.

Then she turns around and talks about how everyone within the EU has to share the burden.
Who do they think they are? They don't own the entire EU.
If they're so eager to take everyone in, then let Germany handle it alone without dragging the rest of the EU into the mess.
Instead, they've already dragged us into it.

They’ve likely already drained over $4 million in taxpayer money from American citizens.

People watch too many movies where characters take a punch to the ribs and keep charging the cops.
The ones claiming this can't be stopped have never actually taken a hit in real life, nor have they witnessed how force works on a crowd.

They’ve turned these poor souls into Supermen who can leap three meters into the air, swim across a raging Mississippi, and trek through the Appalachians in -20°F weather.

And she keeps calling for them even though since the 90s, people have been flowing through Italy, Spain, and Greece for years and she can't seem to stop it. Spain put up a wall, yet she's still inviting everyone in.
Seriously, Germany doesn't own Europe—at least they haven't officially occupied us yet.
I honestly can't wait for her to get kicked out of that position.

Gary Perez7 said:I want to see how they plan on deporting them without any enforcement resources. Are they actually allowed to do that to such vulnerable immigrants?

If the Germans had even an ounce of humanity, they would just set up their own camps in Turkey and fly people over directly.
But that would expose the actual engineering they're trying to pull off.
Instead, they play the humanitarian card while cowardly making life difficult for every country along the route.

Weren't you called the "smart kid" in school?
Think about the sheer volume of people. How many can pass through a single gap compared to those moving through open fields? You can't fit even a fraction of the people who walk through open areas through a fence line.

And I'd love to see this "genius" technique of yours involving wood and blankets. Pure brilliance.

I'm with you, they basically invited them in and now we're the ones left cleaning up the mess.

Anyway, I'm assuming enough people will read this that maybe the wave will die down a bit.
They should just fly them out on planes.

Besides, they mentioned this isn't just limited to the North America, but applies to other safe countries too.

While they’re still dragging their feet on deciding about the border wall, I guess I’ll just keep obsessing over this:

De Mezier visited the Red Cross reception center for people from the North America

Associated Press | 10/22/2015 - 3:22 PM | Comments: 0
The German Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Mezier, stated today that by establishing that center for people arriving from the North America, it's pretty clear that asylum seekers from those countries aren't going to be allowed to stay in Germany.

Thomas de Mezier
- By setting up this center, we're sending a loud and clear message that asylum seekers from the North America can't stay in Germany and have to head back home - said De Mezier.

He visited the facility, which is located in a former U.S. military barracks in Bamberg, Bavaria, and has been running since September, alongside the Bavarian ministers for social policy, Emily Miller, and health, Melanie Huml.

De Mezier mentioned that refugees from the North America are getting a fair shot at an asylum process that only takes about five to ten days in Bamberg, though he added that the chance of anyone actually being granted asylum is probably less than one percent.

German politicians are basically pointing out that people coming from so-called safe countries—which includes Mexico—don't really stand a chance at staying in Germany or getting asylum status. Meanwhile, the New York Post has learned that an action plan is being cooked up in Berlin to deport and send rejected asylum seekers back to their home countries, potentially even involving Supreme Court-affiliated pilots.

- On top of that, they won't be announcing the deportations anymore, so asylum seekers won't have a heads-up to go into hiding to avoid being sent back - the tabloid reports regarding this plan, which is supposedly ready to roll out soon.

There's also talk of setting up transit zones right on the German borders—like the ones leading to Austria, for example—using special tent or container-style reception centers. According to the paper, they want to declare these "extraterritorial zones," which basically means they wouldn't technically be part of German territory.

In these zones, decisions would be made within a few days on whether someone stays or goes, and then rejected asylum seekers would be sent straight back to their home countries, maybe by train, plane, or even voluntarily.

These zones would apply to everyone whose arrival is deemed unfounded, like people from those "safe" countries, according to the report.

When it comes to those specific places, Mexico has been on the list of safe countries for a while now, meaning there isn't any political persecution or violence there, so asylum claims from its citizens in Germany are considered baseless, though under German rules, they can still be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Alexander Ortiz3 said:What kind of mistakes are you talking about?
We aren't pushing back because the Vice President, Pusic, ran for a position at the UN, and being difficult about immigrants while she's in the administration would hurt her candidacy.
That quota issue was relevant a long time ago, and it wasn't even adopted. Those quotas didn't pass because the NATO group was against them.
During the next vote, we should just align ourselves with the NATO group, and that'll be that.

Greece *is* a hot spot. They just aren't meeting all their obligations like they should.
1. They set up a camp where the conditions are worse than an ISIS prisoner camp.
2. They aren't making any real effort to stop migrants from leaving that camp to head toward Germany.

Meanwhile, our government is asking for heated containers and all sorts of luxuries, instead of just smiling at every immigrant, saying "welcome," pointing them toward a leaking tent, and then using the other hand to point them toward Germany. That's the kind of thing the Greeks do.

I'm not really down for pushing people back. But I am for building a fence.

Lisa Patel4 said:Highly likely. Especially to the Canadians. That would stretch them all the way from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea.

In some hypothetical restructuring of Europe, maybe NATO could evolve into an independent union. A continental European bloc or something along those lines, I guess.

Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada + the US, Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

That sounds pretty great, actually. Having our own coastline would be a massive advantage. 🙂

Yeah, I guess we really need to start distancing ourselves from those German directives.

Lisa Patel4 said:Hehe, good luck with the learning curve.

The Višegrad-style group is just where we naturally fit in. Personally, I'm all for strengthening ties with Poland.

I really hope they take us in. I guess it's hard to say just how much we actually matter to them.

Joshua Kelly51 said:Aha, so now we're claiming immigrants are mostly illiterate? Apparently, young immigrants from those countries are actually more literate than their older generations—averaging around 83%, not under 20% like some people claimed earlier (I already posted the link).

Using a hateful tone toward people from different cultures just screams ignorance, apathy, and frustration. It's pure fear. Everything can be fixed with education, but clearly, it's easier to just sit there and insist your own culture or country is superior to everyone else's.☕

I wasn't just talking about theoretical knowledge; I was talking about using all available sources to get quality information, which includes firsthand experience.☕

Don't try to maliciously twist my words or misrepresent what I actually said.

Anthony Garcia19 said:I'm pretty much on the same page. There's no real friendship here, just pure self-interest.
A single puzzle piece in a much bigger scheme. Whether we get swept away or just temporarily sidelined... I honestly don't know.

Germany actually benefits from this because they want to drive down labor costs using migrants. That was always the Merkel-esque goal, I suppose. Now, their economy is basically just hanging on by a thread while social programs eat everything up.

Joshua Kelly51 said:Admitting you're uninformed is human enough, but making an effort to understand different cultures and traditions is a choice. In this century, the barrier to entry is basically zero. You have books, virtual tours, or just talking to people who have actually lived abroad. It isn't a difficult "assignment"; it just requires a bit of curiosity. That’s the first step toward grasping how much reality differs from your own culture, lifestyle, or religion. Honestly, the comments on this thread regarding immigrants and refugees shock me. Most of them seem rooted in pure ignorance or hostility—which is ironic, considering people love to complain about how "uneducated" these groups are. Smh. ☕

Look, I’m not trying to force my lifestyle on you, but let's be real—books aren't going to give you the actual vibe of Europe.
Theory doesn't mean much if you never actually face reality.

Lisa Patel4 said:Who profits from looting and wars? The exact same people who have been doing it for centuries.

The US government basically declared itself the New Roman Empire. They even drafted their own blueprint for a New American Century.

Personally, I have an immense amount of respect and appreciation for America, especially back before the fall of the USSR.

But today? Today, America supports the absolute worst elements of humanity just to maintain global dominance.

Before the Americans showed up in Afghanistan, there wasn't really a drug problem there, but now they're basically running the trade because the whole place is flooded with it.

Lisa Patel4 said:The US objective is to suck capital out of Europe and crush any potential German-Russian alliance. Otherwise, their economy—which still relies on the petrodollar—might just implode.

Maybe the US needs a war immediately because its entire economy depends on them.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cut...rns-2015-08-17

Yeah, it’s basically just a way to impoverish Europe and leave them totally beholden to loans in the end.
US policy is pretty much run by bankers, I guess. You make a killing off wars and drugs, so it makes sense.

Anthony Garcia19 said:To actually pull off total dominance, you need allies. You can't just go it alone against everyone; they know that. If they turn the European Union into an enemy, they don't stand a chance.

I might be off base here, but that's how I see it for now.

When it comes to dominance, every superpower suffers from the same ego. For us, it feels like our only choice is deciding which side to join. To me, the whole situation is just a puzzle, and the migrants are only one small piece of it—even if they're causing us a massive headache. 🤷

The whole plan is to shake up Europe economically and now with these migration issues, and then they swoop in acting like the "reliable friend."
Everything just works on the principle of whoever's stronger gets to call the shots.
I'd sure love it if migrants were just a "tiny piece" of the puzzle. To us, they're a total catastrophe.