BRACE YOURSELVES-THE EUROCRATS ARE ASSAULTING OUR BORDERS AGAIN!

Brussels are at it again! Faced with an impending influx of refugees from the Arab world, the EUrocrats are launching a fresh attack on our border controls.
The European Commission is intending to use human rights laws to remove border controls. We all know where these people will head for; Benefits Britain, the freeloader's Heaven.

David Cameron has pledged to fight plans to scrap the existing rule requiring that illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are sent back to the country where they first enter the EU. However, Cameron has a particularly poor track record when it comes to demonstrating his 'EUroscpetic' credentials and has shown little resolve when faced with demands from Emperor Barosso.

Emperor Barosso

Commission President and de facto Emperor. Jose Manuel Barroso, will use today's summit in Brussels to press for the changes. In what can only be seen as yet another power-grab, Barosso wants the rule suspended indefinitely, which will open the door to hundreds of thousands of immigrants heading for Britain to claim the most generous benefits in the EU.
British officials fear the inevitable, that suspending the rule will see countries on the edge of EUrope making little effort to police their borders knowing full well that those immigrants are likely to head straight for Britain.


The situation has been exacerbated by the fighting in Libya, which has seen thousands of refugees fleeing Gaddafi’s regime to seek asylum in the EU.
So far, more than one million people have fled Libya since the fighting began.
Frontex, the EU border agency, estimates that 48,000 have already arrived in the EU and Italy expects another 50,000 to double those numbers. This will inevitably be the tip of the iceberg.


Eurocrats are demanding the changes to the current rules (the ‘Dublin regulations’) after officials lost a legal case earlier this year.
In January the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Belgium and Greece had violated the rights of an asylum seeker by sending him back to Athens. Both countries had been abiding by EU rules by sending migrants back to the port where they first entered the EU in order to file their asylum claims.

The unidentified Afghan asylum seeker in this case claimed that Belgium and Greece had subjected him to degrading treatment in returning him to Athens, and that he had been denied an ‘effective remedy’ against expulsion. The ECHR, unsurprisingly, agreed.

Last night Cameron's official spokesman said: "The Commission is proposing that the regulations are suspended. We will be resisting that because we think it’s important to have proper border controls. We do care because what happens at the border of Europe can impact on the border of the UK. People who come into the EU through other countries can end up in the UK. We've got to have the right incentives in place so countries police their borders properly."

However, actions speak louder than words and, so far, those of Cameron's government have been signally half-hearted and ineffective.

The move is also opposed by the French are keen to block the move because of problems they have had with Libyan immigrants landing in Italy and then crossing the border into France.

The answer to the problem of people coming to Britain is very simple: Firstly we must make clear that those entering illegally (including those those failing to claim asylum upon landing) will be summarily deported to their country of origin and, secondly, we must reform our benefits system to make it unattractive to those wishing to  live of the backs of the British taxpayer.

Aelfred Wantage