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    GarThweJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 9:20pm

    I’m not exactly sure how this is legal under international law. Here’s Article 32 of the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

    “1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.

    2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent authority.

    3. The Contracting States shall allow such a refugee a reasonable period within which to seek legal admission into another country. The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during that period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.”

    This would not seem to be in line with the prevailing international legal regime. That Convention is considered binding.

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      9-LinesGarThwe
      4/03/16 9:32pm

      I think since these people came via Turkey I think most is null and void. Now if they are coming directly across a border where there is a conflict that would be a different story.

      ( Yes I know there is quasi-civil war in SE Turkey )

      But the real question you should ask is since we helped start this whole mess why aren’t we doing more.

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      GarThwe9-Lines
      4/03/16 9:36pm

      I’m not sure it does, simply because you’re deporting them to a country that has no intent to offer them asylum. It’s not quite the same as sending them directly back to a conflict zone, but it still seems to violate the spirit of the law. It might still violate the letter of it as well, though I’m not a specialist on refugee law.

      Under that Convention refugees must be given a chance to apply for asylum or to contest the circumstances of their expulsion. Neither of which are being given in many of these cases, especially the latter. The “due process” part is pretty clear.

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    the-fresh-prince-of-middle-earthJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 9:13pm

    I loved how Turkey used the migrant crisis to strong-arm Europe, and get them to back out of pressing them on human rights violation and their oppressive government.

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      e.nonthe-fresh-prince-of-middle-earth
      4/03/16 9:19pm

      and receiving billions in ‘aid’ ... erdogan ain’t no fool.

      doubling its demand for financial aid by asking for an extra €3 billion, plus visa waivers for Turks and a kick-start to EU accession talks.

      http://www.politico.eu/article/turkey…

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      NathanDeGraafe.non
      4/03/16 9:24pm

      Never let a good crisis go to waste.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 9:38pm

    What a mess all the way around. I hadn’t even heard of the Russian involvement until, now. It’s like adding tires to the already raging dumpster fire.

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      senilezombiegrouchomarxGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/03/16 9:59pm

      To be fair, the ‘some in the EU’ source stinks of BS. Are there some Russian human traffickers that grease the palms of local officials with bribes and transport a relatively small number of refugees to the Finnish border? I’ll believe that, but I have a hard time believing that it is Kremlin policy or part of a concerted effort by the Russian government.

      Merkle made a colossal mistake by unilaterally proclaiming Germany open to refugees, while not providing for a system of safe and orderly transportation, and then bitching about how Italy and Greece weren’t doing enough even though they had been asking for help for the past 5 years. Germany is way out of it’s league when it comes to formulating foreign policy, and should keep their recent delusions of grandeur restricted to Germany. They just don’t know what they are doing, France and the UK are the only EU member states capable of setting the agenda on the world scene.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/03/16 10:18pm

      The one group that needs no convincing about Russia’s manipulation of the migrant issue is the migrants themselves.

      It’s not just the EU constituent nations.

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    I Curse Zoidberg!Jeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 9:17pm

    “Greece to Deport Migrants to Turkey En Masse”

    Author takes complex international issue, tries to boil it down to single sentence encompassing nuance of confounding problem, fails miserably.

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      crouching tigerI Curse Zoidberg!
      4/03/16 11:46pm

      Care to suggest a better headline? This is a very complex topic, as you note.

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    SulaymanFJeff Ihaza
    4/04/16 1:04pm

    My reading of this situation is that there’s some bigotry going on here. “Oh yeah, just deport these people to Turkey, they’re also Muslim and like the same, right?” Why force Turkey to shoulder the burden when the EU is the one who helped create the crisis in the first place by sanctioning Syria and picking sides in their civil war?

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      CharlieKellyKingofTheRatsJeff Ihaza
      4/03/16 9:21pm

      230 Greeks to remove 50,000 unhappy migrants? This sounds like a setup to a joke. They need at least 300.

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        HeyEinstein!Jeff Ihaza
        4/03/16 9:17pm

        Sounds like Greece is still pissed off about that whole Helen-cucks-Menelaus thing.

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