The socialist society known as Greece is ramping up its effort at detention and deportation of illegals. This is a historically specific consequence of progressive ideology running its full course.
In ideologically progressive society the economic “pie” is seen as static. The pie must be apportioned or shared to create “fairness” in wealth or capital distribution.
When the government runs out of money from the production class, gained from forced confiscation of wealth (taxation) from the productive members of society, the government takes steps to reduce the dependent class aiming first at those defined as “least deserving”.
Deportation is a prog consequence from the ideology of socialism running amok; yet, modern progs will never fully accept this historical and factual truth. Instead they will claim that “open border” societies should be welcoming to all, as evidenced in the Democrat party platform of multi-cultural inclusion and amnesty. But they will avoid the truth of their ideology leading to a completly divergent outcome.
This is just one, among many, of the hypocritical outcomes of progressive society.
It is important to remember it was Italy, France and Germany who convinced the EU to pay Quackdaffy €5 billion per year to guard the gates of Libya and keep the undesirables from the Middle East and North Africa from crossing the border to Cyprus. Now the gatekeeper has been removed the flow of immigrants has once again become an issue.
(From Gateway Pundit) As Greece suffers though financial crisis the government rounds up illegal immigrants and puts them in camps. The AP reported:
Greece’s remote Evros region has turned into Europe’s main battleground against illegal immigration; more than two-thirds of people making the clandestine journey into the European Union pass through here from neighboring Turkey.
Greece launched an aggressive campaign this month to try to seal its 200-kilometer (130-mile) northeastern border, as it faces a debilitating financial crisis that has caused a swell in joblessness and a surge in racist attacks against immigrants with dark skin.
The police operation has brought nearly 2,000 additional border guards to the Turkish frontier previously manned by about 500 officers. They fanned out with dogs, night vision equipment and flat-bottomed boats for 24-hour patrols of the Evros River that forms a natural border. At least 21 people have drowned or died of exposure crossing the river this year, while several have been listed as missing.
In Athens, the operation is being bolstered by mass roundups of suspected illegal immigrants. They are seen lined up on the streets of the capital every day, many in handcuffs, waiting to be put in detention until they can be deported. In the first week of the crackdown in early August, police said they apprehended nearly 7,000 people for identification checks; nearly 1,700 were slated for deportation.
