Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš has condemned the past approach
of Merkel’s Germany and the European Union to illegal immigration, branding it
a “threat to European civilisation”.
Andrej Babiš, a
Slovak-origin populist and billionaire tycoon sometimes described as the ‘Czech
Trump’, told national
television: “We do not want to live here in Africa or the Middle East. We have
to stop [immigration from these places].”
He predicted that if
immigration was not brought under control, public anger and
disillusionment would grow, warning “Chemnitz is around the corner” — a
reference to the large-scale public protests against
Germany’s migrant policy following the fatal stabbing of a local man, allegedly
by a Syrian and an Iraqi with a string of previous convictions.
“We have 1.5 million
illegal migrants here. Our return policy is bad,” added the ANO leader,
referring to the EU’s weak record on returning bogus asylum seekers, including
the aforementioned Iraqi in Chemnitz, and killers like Anis Amri, who should not have
been in Germany at all when he drove a stolen lorry into a packed Christmas
market, having lied about his nationality, used multiple false identities, and
been scheduled for deportation but was not detained while it was arranged.
As the
leader of one of the Visegrád group of Central European nations opposed to mass
migration and multiculturalism, now allied with Austria’s new conservative-nationalist
coalition government and Italy’s insurgent populist coalition, Babiš was
blunt on those Western European countries still pushing open borders policies.
“If they
want to have more Islamic State supporters in France, the Netherlands or Belgium
than they have now, that’s up to them,” he said.
He was very clear that
the Czech Republic, like Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, would continue to
defy the EU’s attempts to redistribute migrants arriving in the EU under
a compulsory quota system.
“We have lost four years
foolishly debating quotas. In short, the message being sent is that Europe is
open and that we have to care for everyone who comes illegally and will
disperse them amongst us,” he explained in a separate
interview, accusing migrants of “asylum shopping”.
Babiš, like
Italian deputy prime minister, interior minister, and League leader Matteo
Salvini, believes promoting strong borders is the correct solution to the
migrant crisis, and wants the EU to help stabilise Libya and come to
Turkey-style deals with that country, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt so
they stop migrants at their own external borders.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/03/czech-prime-minister-illegal-immigration-threat-european-civilisation/