As Trump closes US doors to migrants, Latin Americans look to Europe

[Swordsmyth]

In contrast to many congregations in western Europe, attendance is on the up at Notre-Dame aux Riches Claires, an imposing baroque red-brick church on a cobbled road close to Brussels’ Grand Place.
The faithful squeeze into the pews for Sunday mass and spill out on to the road to catch up before and after the weekly Spanish-language service by Father Óscar Escobar.
The 17th-century church’s change in fortunes is not just down to the strength of the Colombian priest’s sermons, or the healthy trade in community gossip and empanadas afterwards.
It is on the frontline of a dash to Europe by Latin Americans, as growing numbers of migrants reject the mortal risks now inherent in trying to secure a new life in the USA.
The European Asylum Support Office reported this month that an 11% increase in people seeking political asylum in Europe since last year is being driven by people fleeing economic disasters, political repression and criminal violence in Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru.
Venezuelans have lodged some 18,400 asylum applications from January to May, roughly twice as many as during the same period in 2018, making them the nationality with the second-highest number of applications in Europe after Syrians.
Meanwhile applications for refugee status by Central Americans have increased 4,000% compared with a decade ago.
The trend to head across the ocean to Europe is in part a reaction to the pitiless approach of Donald Trump’s White House, whose aggressive immigration policies have separated families at the border and drastically curtailed asylum and refugee resettlement.


The Trump administration has refused to grant protected status to people fleeing Venezuela’s political and economic meltdown, but there is no visa requirement for Venezuelans coming to the EU’s Schengen area.
Spain remains the prime European destination for Latin Americans. Figures from the Spanish asylum and refugee office – part of the country’s interior ministry – show that asylum applications from Central America have more than tripled over the past two years as people flee violence, unemployment, corruption, crime and the impacts of climate change.
In 2017, 2,231 people from the region applied for asylum: 986 from Honduras; 31 from Nicaragua and 1,143 from El Salvador.
In just the first five months of 2019 alone, 7,442 people from Central America applied for asylum: 2,698 from Nicaragua, 2,666 from Honduras and 2,078 from El Salvador.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-closes-...061017921.html

[Schifference]

Long Swim

[euphemia]

I want to know where people get the money for this. We both work and we could not afford a flight to Europe. We’ve never flown outside the US at all. I flew into the US as an infant, but I have never flown out.

[Anti Globalist]

Good they can be Europes problem.

[Schifference]

I want to know where people get the money for this. We both work and we could not afford a flight to Europe. We’ve never flown outside the US at all. I flew into the US as an infant, but I have never flown out.

Trump should charter flights for them to get there.

[Schifference]

Trump should charter flights for them to get there.

Better yet put then on a huge ship.

[KEEF]

I want to know where people get the money for this. We both work and we could not afford a flight to Europe. We’ve never flown outside the US at all. I flew into the US as an infant, but I have never flown out.

Always wondered that too. A vacation for the whole family is freakin’ expensive.

[dannno]

Better yet put then on a huge ship.

[Swordsmyth]

Trump should charter flights for them to get there.

Better yet put then on a huge ship.

And give the same offer to all the liberals who want to give up their citizenship, they can claim political asylum because Trump is "literally Hitler".

[Swordsmyth]

The Spanish government on Friday authorized nearly 150 million euros ($165 million) in subsidies to ease the strain on its migrant-processing system after a recent spike in arrivals from Latin America overwhelmed its social services.Government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa, who announced the measure at a weekly briefing, said the subsidies will be complemented by 25 million euros from European funds.
Provoked by national crises in Spanish-speaking countries like Venezuela and Colombia, the number of people seeking asylum in Spain has skyrocketed. Madrid City Council received 50,000 asylum applications between January and October 2019 - compared to only 36,000 nationwide and throughout 2018.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/spain-pledges...165523428.html

[Anti Federalist]

I want to know where people get the money for this. We both work and we could not afford a flight to Europe. We’ve never flown outside the US at all. I flew into the US as an infant, but I have never flown out.

They get the money from anti western groups such as Catholic Charities.

Which get a chunk of their money from you...and me...as extorted tax dollars.

Really is a brilliant way to bring down an entire society without firing a shot: use guilt ridden natives as the funding source of the imported masses being brought in to replace and displace those self same natives.

There are literally hundreds of these "NGOs" working day and night to import as many invaders as possible.

ETA - NGO is UN-Speak for "Non Governmental Organization".