And “Islamophobic.” After all, once again, what could possibly go wrong? Europe with nearly five million illegal migrants, many of whom hold to a violent, aggressive, supremacist ideology, will be exactly the same as Europe without them, and only greasy “Islamophobes” would think otherwise, right?
“Up to 4.8m unauthorised immigrants in Europe in 2017 – study,” by Jon Henley, Guardian, November 13, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Europe was home to between 3.9 million and 4.8 million unauthorised immigrants in 2017, about half of whom lived in the UK and Germany, according to the first comprehensive estimate in more than a decade.
The Pew Research Center study, based on data from the 32 EU and Efta member states and international organisations, found the range was significantly higher than in 2014 (3 million to 3.7 million) but had fallen slightly since a 2016 peak of 4.1 million to 5.3 million.
The study also found that unauthorised immigrants in Europe came from many different countries, had arrived relatively recently and were mostly young and male.
Andrew Geddes, the director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, said the study presented a “rigorous, robust and credible” picture of an issue that many Europeans had “lost trust and confidence in the capacity of their governments – and the EU – to deal with competently”.
Victoria Rietig, of the German Council on Foreign Relations, said there was agreement in Germany that unauthorised immigration was “bad for security, bad for the people concerned who live in the shadows, bad for social cohesion,” but that the debate had become “toxic and increasingly ideological”….