Coronavirus: Lockdown for Europeans, Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

by Soeren Kern • May 12, 2020 at 5:00 am

While Europe is experiencing an economic shock without precedent, and tens of millions of Europeans have lost their livelihoods, migrants in Europe illegally are being showered with free housing and healthcare.
The actual number of illegal immigrants in France is unknown but was estimated to be between 300,000 and 400,000 in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. Considering the waves of mass migration since then, the number is probably well above a half-million.
Britain has up to 1.2 million illegal immigrants, a quarter of all those that have unlawfully entered Europe, according to the Pew Research Center.... The UK's leniency appears to have sparked another wave of illegal immigration. Since the coronavirus lockdown began on March 23, nearly 900 people have illegally crossed the English Channel from France, according to Migration Watch UK.
"There is great discontent among the [German] population because everyone who arrives here immediately has many or even higher rights and rights to benefits or medical care than someone who has worked here for their entire life." — Interior Minister of Saarland, Klaus Bouillon (CDU), interview with Die Welt.
"Muslim countries currently have 300 million males under the age of 15. This is not a forecast, but already a reality. Scientists like Gunnar Heinsohn assume that a maximum of 100 million can obtain a position in the society of their home country. The remaining 200 million will try to emigrate or otherwise fight for their place." — Anabel Schunke, political commentator, German blog Die Achse des Guten

While Europe is experiencing an economic shock without precedent, and tens of millions of Europeans have lost their livelihoods, migrants in Europe illegally are being showered with free housing and healthcare. Pictured: Some of a group of 50 asylum-seekers (16 minors and 34 people from migrant camps) prepare to board a "family reunion rescue flight" from Athens to London on May 11, 2020. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

European governments are using the coronavirus pandemic to grant mass amnesties to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. While Europe is experiencing an economic shock without precedent, and tens of millions of Europeans have lost their livelihoods, migrants in Europe illegally are being showered with free housing and healthcare.

In Italy, where public debt is forecast to reach 160% of GDP this year, the left-wing coalition government has announced a plan to grant amnesty to at least 600,000 migrants in the country illegally. They would receive residency permits, initially valid for six months, that could be renewed in perpetuity.

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Turkish 'Justice': Free Mobsters, Keep Dissidents Locked Up

by Burak Bekdil • May 12, 2020 at 4:00 am

When drafting the bill, Erdoğan and his MPs were surgically precise not to let one single political prisoner walk free.
About 50,000 inmates who were excluded from the bill, as terror convicts and suspects would not be eligible for amnesty.
You forgive the mafia... You don't forgive journalists that write the truth. You don't forgive those that want peace." — Turan Aydoğan, opposition lawmaker.
Under Erdoğan's 18 years in power, the free-fall of this professed NATO ally back toward the authoritarian East looks sadly irrevocable.

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his rubber-stamp parliament passed a law for the temporary release of around 45,000 prisoners "to stem the spread of the coronavirus," they were surgically precise not to let one single political prisoner walk free. Pictured: Released prisoners meet their families as they get off a bus near Bakirkoy women's prison on April 15, 2020 in Istanbul. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)

Aleaddin Çakıcı is a well-known Turkish mafia figure. But his militant far-right past makes him a shadier figure in Turkey's domestic and international political scenes, not just in the criminal underworld. In the 1970s he was a leading fighter in Turkey's near civil war between ultra-left and -right fractions. His first arrest came shortly after the military coup d'état in 1980: He was tried on charges of murdering 41 leftists.

According to leaked reports, Çakıcı was used as a hitman in the 1980s and 1990s by Turkish intelligence. His targets were leftists and pro-Kurdish groups. Turkish intelligence also tasked him with carrying out operations in foreign countries, including Greece and Lebanon, targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).

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