Lithuania, like Poland, has been under severe pressure imposed by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s “hybrid war” against the European Union. In August, Lithuania declared a “state-level extreme situation” over the migrant crisis as some 4,000 illegals, mostly from Iraq, crossed the border between Belarus and Lithuania. Also in that month, Muslims threatened Lithuania with jihad bombings at shopping malls, entertainment centers and office buildings, which would of course have prompted even more concern about border security. By the end of August, the small embattled country joined a list of other EU countries to build a wall to protect its “border of democracy” from the surge of Muslim migrants.
Now Lithuania is paying Muslim migrant deportees to go back to Iraq. Lithuania should not be in this position in the first place. But it fights two forces: illegal migrants (caused by Belarus’ vengeful Lukashenko) beating down its borders, and EU globalists, pressuring sensible EU countries (including Lithuania) to fling open their doors to unvetted migration as a “human right.
After a cost-benefit analysis, Lithuania opted to pay the Iraqi migrants, who took the money and went back home peacefully. For now.
“Lithuania pays migrants €1,000 to return to Iraq,” by Joao Vitor Da Silva Marques, EuroNews, January 22, 2022:
The largest group of migrants to break through the Lithuanian-Belarusian border at the height of the latest migrant crisis has been returned to Baghdad.
98 Iraqis were offered a one-time payment of €1,000 to board the flight.
According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs, all went voluntarily.
“We estimate how much it costs for us one migrant,” said Agnè Bilotaite, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior. “The basic cost of maintaining one migrant is €11,000 per year. It is obviously much more profitable for us to offer a benefit, buy a ticket or arrange a flight and thus have fewer challenges and other problems.”
Since the beginning of the migration crisis, Vilnius has expelled more than 500 migrants who arrived via Belarus.
Over 3,000 remain in Lithuanian refugee centres.
“We need to start thinking what we will do when the term in refugee centres will be over,” said Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary committee for human rights. “To talk about integration. Otherwise, they will try to reach other European countries.”
Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, followed by the EU, the US and other western countries accused the government of Alexander Lukashenko of using illegal migrants to solve political problems.
Minsk and Moscow blame Europe for the crisis and for the fate of refugees…..
tom parry says
How about putting the illegle money grabber on a bread and water diet. After a week offer a free ticket home, leaving without any money etc.? about 800 euro saved.
mortimer says
It’s worth much more than $1,125 tor each migrant to go home.
Kagman says
You could add three zeros to that figure and it would be worth every penny. At least there’s some nations out there that are stemming the tide of this outrageous invasion. Frankly, rounding them all up and putting them on a boat headed back from whence they came would be more cost effective. There should be no option. You’re leaving… Get out. Now.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Wow, a boat ride from Lithuania to Iraq. That’s a lengthy (and expensive) cruise!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lithuania/@51.8803652,25.445072,3z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x46dd94140f33be13:0xf30a54d3a55dbab9!8m2!3d55.169438!4d23.881275
Infidel says
It was a flight, since they were trying to cross from Belarus, which is a landlocked country. But they need to build a wall along their borders w/ Belarus
mortimer says
Denmark has been paying each Muslim migrant about $20,000 USD or 100.000 DKR to leave Denmark.
Yogi says
Send them back ASASP!!, it’s cheaper to pay them and get rid of them then feed them for life with tons of kids !!( the are pumping the kids like rabbits) they not gonna work I guarantee that !!, Are You listening Germany!! Germans still do naive and want them take , Germans will work to 70 years of age working for this parasites..
Fitna says
The biggest traitors to Europe are the unelected scum in the EU, forcing their own radical Left, pro-Islamic views on European countries.
Like the UN, the EU needs to be eliminated or kept only for dealing with trade within Europe but allow the countries to go back to governing themselves.
These same bastards are very wealthy and lead cushy lives and will never have to face rape, theft, violence and murder at the hands of the barbarians they’re pushing to invade western nations. They all need to be jailed for treason.
Meanwhile it’s a smart decision by Lithuania to pay off the invaders and send them back. I’ve said the same for ages, because it’ll be far cheaper in the long run.
But I agree with the others, borders need to be reinforced and aggressive, violent migrants should be shot on sight. You can’t pay them all off, at some point they need to be sent away with the use of force.
Yogi says
Germany have to stop pushing others Europeans countries to taking this savages to the homes !!, it’s Germany who are doing this mess to make the promises to them about free living, they are destroying whole continent..
Hank says
+10
“The biggest traitors to Europe are the unelected scum in the EU, forcing their own radical Left, pro-Islamic views on European countries.”
The unelected Leftist-Green EU Commission forces many of their views on member states: Islamization and Leftist-Green super-inflationary energy tax policies among other things. Very creative. Putin hinted in an interview that the gas he sells Europe is being resold at 7X the price to consumers.
nicholas tesdorf says
Paying Illegal Musilims only $1,125 each, to go home is a spectacular bargain. This is a programme which would benefit all other countries even at 10 or 20 times the price.
Infidel says
Lithuania however should have stipulated that the next time, those ‘refugees’ would simply be shot! The very fact that those parasites could peacefully return to Iraq exposes the big lie about using the ‘refugee’ label w/ them in the first place
Also, every country that is pressed by the EU to accept refugees should round up as many refugees as they can, fly them to Brussels and then bus them to the EU and NATO headquarters to squat there. Those officials won’t recognize the consequences of their actions until it personally hits them. Just like Ron DeSantis sending Afghan refugees to Wilmington
gravenimage says
Lithuania pays illegal Muslim migrants $1,125 to go home
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Better than giving them that–or more–to enter their country…
Michael says
In the centripetal laboratory experiment that is the EU, Lithuania and Latvia have lost around 30% of their working population to the German hub. As a result they need workers and consumers. The people traffickers in Brussels and Belarus and the people suppliers in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan…. have a solution.
Infidel says
Lithuania and Latvia should follow the example of Estonia, which has become a nearshoring site for Finland, thanks to the close cultural ties b/w the 2. Latvia should look at building up such a relationship w/ Sweden, and Lithuania w/ Poland
gravenimage says
Few Muslims work, and they expect the Infidels to pay for their upkeep.
Alfredo says
“Lithuania will pay $1,225 to illegal migrants to leave the country.”
This amounts to extorsion indeed.
But it’s worth every penny because it will cost Lithuania less in the long run due to the social dislocation and unrest these illegal migrants cause wherever they go due to the fact they come from incompatible cultures.
joan_of_ark2005 says
Over 3,000 remain.
I understand, or it hit me one day, of why thousands or millions of leaving their homes, and traveling many many miles, to walk into the borders of many many NON muslim countries. It all makes sense if you see the one word in Rev 20:4, which is also the same word in the koran.
Who else in all those many non muslim countries, are going to do what that word is, to all the Christians, Jews, and others, who will NOT take satan’s mark. And what other type of “people”, hate those people of God, as much as Satan does? It’s simple enough to see the hatred in their “book”! And some muslims get too excited, and wound or kill, but satan makes the authorities, call it “mental illness”, so they can released back on the street, sooner, than if they went to jail.
I can see Satan laughing about his plan to call “mental illness”….
So, as Satan will be in human form, during the “coming soon” Tribulation period, he won’t be able to be in more than one spot, like in the spirit form he is now. Therefore, he needs all of these “people” to work for him.
The citizens in those countries, don’t have the anger and hate of God’s people, to do what it says in that verse. As a lot of those countries, use to be Christian themselves, a long time ago.
I also figured out, when the 7 year peace treaty will be signed. And Trump got THAT ball started, and then left office. One sign I saw, other than a stretch of the imagination, that Trump’s name could be short for “trumpet” (which many are blown in Revelation), but him not being a Christian, he could of named the peace agreement with those few Middle Eastern countries ANYTHING, so why did he give it a biblical name?
If you think back, every president since Carter (and maybe further back than that), has tried and failed, to get that golden prize. A peace treaty, between those two countries. So no one man can bring it about. But one man, can get it started, and then leave it, to finish on its own, and that’s what’s happening, and will happen. No Trump needed (as at one time, I thought Trump would need to be re elected again, to finish the job he started. And when he said, he was going to run again, for sure, I figured that had to be.) But no, once more countries join in this peace agreement, all on their own, and there’s enough countries joined, they could put a LOT of pressure on Palestine (of course, that leader is going to say NO again to peace, but not for long), and MAKE THEM, either using economic force, or some other forceful way, where there is no way, that leader can say NO….
And so, when Palestine says yes..to peace with Israel, a 7 year contract will have to be signed, and as our bible says, THIS will start the 7 year Tribulation, or the “beginning of the end”!!
There will be horror like before seen. Just read in Revelation, after the first four chapters, of the letters to the 7 churches, and you will know, the horror that is coming! Soon! Watch for more and more Middle Eastern countries joining the peace, for them to finally ALL look at Palestine, and say “What say you”?
And remember who started this peace agreement with a biblical name, that could of been named anything else!
Proud Islamophobe says
Too late. They disguise themselves as Christians, as Israelis, as homeless, as anything they can.