Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
The EU migrant problem is, from my perspective as an EU citizen, the real elephant in the room that everyone talks about but still doesn&#x27;t quite appreciate the depth of.<p>We have a union that claims to be be committed to human rights such as the right to seek asylum. That union recently experienced serious political unrest after receiving a bit over a million migrants around 2015 and clearly the political leadership decided that could not happen again. So the problem was offshored to Turkey, and to some extent Greece, and I&#x27;m sure to some North African nations in deals I&#x27;m not aware of.<p>This is going to be horrific, frankly. Whatever you think of the ethics of the whole business, it&#x27;s pretty clear that politically, EU leadership is not willing to face another migrant crisis. Unfortunately, the EU also doesn&#x27;t seem able to do a whole lot about the root causes of the crisis, namely political instability and war south of the EU borders. So what that leaves is the EU turning a blind eye to the problem, trying to get the authoritarian states on our borders to deal with the problem in a deniable fashion instead.<p>It&#x27;s not going to work in the long run. People move across borders when they need to. Where it&#x27;s all going, I don&#x27;t know, but it&#x27;s going to be a big, big problem for the EU if the conflicts in the Middle East and Africa can not be stabilized.