Thursday, October 29, 2015

Tony Abbott Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants


Tony Abbott Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants


The U.S. should learn from the immigration catastrophe now taking place globally. Though tough decisions about allowing refugees onto our soil may “gnaw at our consciences,” we expect that our elected officials will put the security of our nation first.
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Tony Abbott Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants
By Austin Ramzy — The New York Times
Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia, used his first major speech since his ouster last month to denounce Europe’s migration policies, warning in London that the continent risked “fundamentally weakening itself” through “misguided altruism” as large numbers of asylum seekers arrive.
“All countries that say ‘anyone who gets here can stay here’ are now in peril, given the scale of the population movements that are starting to be seen,” Mr. Abbott, a conservative, said on Tuesday during a lecture honoring the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Mr. Abbott backed an aggressive policy on migration during his two years in office. The Australian authorities turned away boats and refused to accept asylum seekers intercepted at sea, instead sending them to offshore camps. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Mr. Abbott in September in a party coup, has announced no change to those policies.
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