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The migrants, most from the former French colonies, had been living on that street for a while, but now rounded up and sent to refugee centres. They were supposed to leave all trash behind. Simple as that. Note that this happened over a month ago, and the brawl mentioned in April.
The migrants, most from the former French colonies, had been living on that street for a while, but now rounded up and sent to refugee centres. They were supposed to leave all trash behind. Simple as that. Note that this happened over a month ago, and the brawl mentioned in April.
We just went through this a week or so back when someone posted the same thing. They show one block and suddenly that's all of Paris. As I said in that thread, it's like taking a picture of the homeless who sleep under the overhangs of the federal buildings in DC every night and then posting them and saying the whole city is trashed.
These posters have no concern whatsoever with the thousands of people sleeping on the streets of US cities, but post pictures of Paris? Lol
What gets me is the way the media continues to call these teenagers and young adults 'children' and 'unaccompanied minors'. Do they really think anyone still believes that?
Neighbors, long time Francophiles, just returned from 2 weeks in Paris. They did not observe migrant camps. They did however express that tensions between black and white people was seriously palatable and out of character.
Clearing out " the jungle" has put the people on the streets.
"The Jungle" is in the port city of Calis, which is about 3 hours from Paris. In season, cruise ships used to drop anchor here for day tours to Paris. That is no longer the case.
The economic migrants are mostly young men from Africa, fleeing corruption and civil wars. They are unlikely to achieve the objectives they intended by migrating. They are, for the most part, unemployable and substantially resentful.
So long as efforts are made to resettle migrants, more will come.
There is some irony to ^, given France's historical colonization of parts of Africa.
As an aside, too bad the technology of the time did not record the displacement of tens of millions after WW2, throughout Europe, as it would be done today. It might create some perspective. People spent years in DP camps and massive culture clashes were common. Adjoining villages were devastated by violence spewing from the camps.
As this crisis wore on, Canada and the US began giving resettlement priority to families and favored some nationalities over another. Massive group marriages of convenience occurred within the camps and claims of nationality changed with immigration policies. No one had papers so it was easy to do. Once cleared for immigration to Canada or the US, refugees put their names on work for passage lists and waited their turn. It took more than a decade to sort it all out.
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