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http://www.ekathimerini.com/200519/article/ekathimerini/news/ship-more-police-being-sent-to-kos-to-assist-refugeesShip, more police being sent to Kos to assist refugees
12.08.2015 : 22:57
A cruise liner and more than 250 policemen will be sent to Greeces eastern Aegean islands to help authorities deal with the growing influx of refugees and migrants, the government decided Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by State Minister Alekos Flambouraris. Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou took part in the talks as well and is due to meet today in Athens with EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos. Sources said Athens will explore whether there are ways to receive emergency funding from Brussels to help process and care for the hundreds of migrants and refugees who are arriving each day.
A ship that can carry more than 2,000 people is due to be sent to Kos, which is experiencing the worst overcrowding, by Saturday, sources said. Authorities on the island are trying to process the new arrivals, with some 1,000 being given papers Wednesday after a 12-member team from the Aliens Bureau in Athens was sent there to help local police.
At least 260 more police officers are due to be sent to Kos and other eastern Aegean islands in the coming days to provide assistance to local officers.
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Ship, more police being sent to Kos to assist refugees (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Aug 2015
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. Such an Orwellian headline: "police being sent . . . to assist refugees" n/t
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. Migration is a really big deal for Europe.
J. Paul Bremmer and dubya are directly responsible for ISIS/ISIL - that's what happens when you fire an entire religious sect from the Iraq military.
I'm surprised that no European country has brought that up.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)3. France and the UK, along with Qatar, led the way into the regime change in Libya and Syria, creating
the space, arms and manpower that ISIS needed to seize territory and proclaim a state. Unfortunately, Petraeus' CIA and HRC's State Dept. went along with and coordinated those regime change operations, greatly expanding ISIS.
So, it's a bipartisan mess that stretches over two Administrations, as these proxy wars usually are.