Dalai Lama Warns ‘Keep Europe for Europeans’ as He Calls For ‘Muslim and African’ Migrants to be Returned Home

Christy Cooney
The Sun

THE Dalai Lama has sparked controversy by saying that Europe should be kept for Europeans, with migrants from Africa or Muslim countries eventually being returned home.

The 83-year-old was speaking at his home in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959.

The Tibetan leader was speaking at his home in the northern India, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959

In an interview with the BBC, he said that "European countries should take these refugees and give them education and training.

"And then aiming is... return to their own land".

Asked whether refugees should be allowed to stay in Europe if that's what they would prefer, he added: "Limited number... OK. But whole Europe eventually become Muslim country? Impossible.

"Or African country? Also impossible."

He was responding to questions about comments he'd made previously that had been used by the Leave campaign before Britain's referendum on its membership of the European Union.

He had said: "The goal should be that migrants return and help rebuild their countries."

"You have to be practical. It's impossible for everyone to come."

Reminded by interviewer Rajini Vaidyanathan that he was himself a refugee, the Dalai Lama responded: "They themselves [the refugees], I think better in their own land.

"Better. Keep Europe for Europeans."

Of course, the Dalai Lama does not have the choice to return to Tibet. He would be arrested and disappear.

He added he thought Donald Trump, who has campaigned on a platform of reducing the number of migrants and refugees coming to the US, had a "lack of moral principle", and that the president's America First platform was "wrong".

"America, they should take the global responsibility," he said.

Global responsibility as opposed to global bullying?

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 in the wake of a failed uprising by guerrillas opposed to control of Tibet by China, which had been in force since 1951.

He has lived in India ever since.

Beginning in the summer of 2015, a large number of asylum seekers and economic migrants began arriving on the European continent from the Middle East and Africa.

The influx sparked debate in Europe, with many saying the migrants should be allowed to come, others arguing the continent was not well-equipped to cope with such a large number of arrivals.

At a conference on Wednesday in the Swedish city of Malmo, itself home to a large immigrant population, the Dalai Lama said that Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life".

Asked what he thought of Britain's decision to leave the EU, he said: "I am one admirer of [the] spirit of [the] European Union.

"I'm outsider but I feel better [to] remain in the union."

Hungary’s Orban Calls for Italy to Deport Illegal Migrants Back to Africa

5 EU countries now opposed to reckless migration

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that illegal immigrants in Italy must be deported back to Africa instead of relocated to other places in Europe and that Hungary is willing to help with the process.

Orban was speaking during a press conference following a meeting with Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has come under fire in recent days for refusing to allow more than 100 African migrants to disembark from a boat docked in Catania.

Last Wednesday, the crew of the Diciotti rescued 190 migrants from an overloaded boat about 15 nm off the island of Lampedusa. 13 individuals needed emergency treatment and were medevaced to shore, but 177 remained on board.

Aid group Medecines sans Frontieres reports that 27 minors have been allowed to disembark from the Italian Coast Guard cutter Diciotti, which was temporarily banned from port by its own government last week. About 150 survivors remain on board the vessel, which is alongside at the port of Catania, and Italy is attempting to negotiate with other EU states to persuade them to take them in. 

They are not having much success at getting other EU countries to take them, although those countries have no problem criticizing Salvini for standing firm. Salvini is also getting criticism from within his own government and judicial system which is now investigating whether or not they can charge Salvini with some crime.

Orban, earlier today called Salvini his hero!

Asked whether migrants should be relocated from Italy to other EU countries, Orban said that they should be sent back home.

“We should send them back instead of relocating them,” he said, adding that anything else would mean “the human smugglers have won” and “immigrants would keep coming in further waves”.

Orban said that illegal migration was the most important issue facing the European Union and said that Hungary was “attacked” by Brussels because the country had shown that it was possible that migrants could be stopped on land, referring to the fence built at Hungary’s border with Serbia and Croatia.

It was possible, Orban said, for Salvini to prove that migrants could “also be stopped at sea.” He called on Salvini not to “retreat” and promised assistance from Hungary to help Italy protect its borders. “Europe’s security hinges on his [Salvini’s] success,” he said.

Mariann Őry

@otmarianna

 #Orban: We are ready to help #Italy to deport back migrants to #Africa. Take them back home, instead of relocating them. #OrbanSalvini

Orban said that Brussels’ policies on migration, particularly those driven from Germany, France and Spain, were aimed at “better management” of the influx of migrants, while the Visegrad group - which is made up of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - wants to stop illegal migration fully.

Earlier in the day, other top officials from Italy's ruling coalition said that EU funds to Hungary should be stopped because it had not responded to Italy's "request for help" in relocating migrants.

Mariann Őry

@otmarianna

 #Orban: I told #Salvini that migrants who arrived in Europe should be taken back. Brussels elite says it's not possible but I'm convinced we only need political will. I wish much success and are thankful for your support. #OrbanSalvini

Salvini described the meeting with Orban as one in a “long series of meetings to change the destiny of Europe” and said the two countries were “close to a historic breakthrough on a continental level”.

Both Orban and Salvini have angered Brussels with their anti-migrant rhetoric and refusal to cooperate with EU demands. 

Orban has referred to migrants in Europe as “Muslim invaders” who he said are not true refugees, while Salvini has said he is prepared to be arrested in his defence of Italy’s borders.

Half of ‘Deported’ Refugees Never Left Germany, Report Reveals

Islamization - Germany's amazing migrant mess;

an amazingly expensive mess

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The number of unsuccessful deportations from Germany has increased by more than 200 percent, as every second deportable migrant stayed in the country by not appearing for their expulsion appointment.

An internal evaluation by the federal police found that, as of the end of May, only 11,100 scheduled deportations had been successful out of a planned 23,900, according to the report by Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.

Some 11,500 refugees were listed as “not found” on their appointed day, with the remaining 1,300 cases abandoned for various other reasons. Around 150 people stayed because pilots refused to take them, and in more than 500 cases, deportation was stopped because of “active or passive resistance.”

The highest level of deportation resistance came from immigrants from Nigeria and Guinea, with 60 people each, followed by Somalia, Syria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Morocco, Iraq and Eritrea, according to German federal police.

“It creates an enormous amount of work for the federal police that every second person to be deported is ultimately not delivered by the responsible state and local authorities,” Ernst Walter, chairman of the German police union, told Welt am Sonntag. He added that the only way to prevent them from disappearing is to “make much greater use of deportation detention.”

Germany's migrant costs approaching $100 bn

Germany has seen an influx of more than 1.6 million asylum seekers since 2014, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing increasing political pressure from the public to stem the flow, as estimated migrant-related costs reach €78 billion ($91 billion).