{"id":5207,"date":"2026-06-19T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:59:38","slug":"send-them-back-chants-in-eu-parliament-after-anti-migrant-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5207","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Send them back\u2019 chants in EU Parliament after anti-migrant bill passes.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In news of the weird and unexpected, yesterday Al Jazeera reported, \u201c\u2018Send them back\u2019 chants in EU Parliament after anti-migrant bill passes.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> The ministers were literally hugging each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, maybe it isn\u2019t that<\/em> surprising. But first, the new Europe-wide law established \u201creturn hubs\u201d in third countries, expanded detention powers (including home raids without judicial warrants), and fueled a general \u201chard rightward turn\u201d in EU migration enforcement. PBS framed it as the strictest EU migration law in decades, explicitly modeled on U.S. ICE\u2011style tactics: extended detention periods, aggressive home searches, tougher entry bans, and offshored facilities where EU process protections are weakest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new regulation will speed up the return process and increase returns of persons who have no legal right to stay in the EU,\u201d said Nicholas Ioannides, deputy migration minister for Cyprus, which holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc. \u201cCritics compared the regulation to the immigration policies of the Trump administration,\u201d NPR said, without naming the critics (it was NPR and NGO activists).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese new rules will ensure swifter, simpler, and more effective procedures across the European Union for returning non-EU nationals who have no right to stay, in full respect of international law and fundamental rights,\u201d said Henna Virkkunen, EU commissioner for technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis deal will give governments much broader powers to detain and deport people,\u201d complained Marta Welander, a middle-aged white female activist employed by a migration NGO. \u201cIt looks set to normalize immigration raids, and expand the use of detention in prison-like facilities outside EU territory that are essentially legal black holes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legal black holes<\/em> is also a neat way to describe migration NGOs themselves. They are basically money vortexes disguised as charities that suck up our taxes and pay lawyers to sink the ship of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"🔥\" In my view, three things made these surprising \u201chistoric\u201d reforms possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, \u201cfar-right\u201d (moderate conservative) parties have been ascendant in Europe, a trend that accelerated after President Trump\u2019s re-election last year. Conservative and \u201creform\u201d parties now make up about a third of all elected EU members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, center-left parties \u2014also about a third\u2014 joined the conservatives to pass the new anti-migration policies. Only the far-left parties (Greens and socialists) opposed the new package and shouted \u201cshame!\u201d at their colleagues after the vote passed. (Although you could hardly hear them over all the joyful celebrating.) Thanks to the center-left\u2019s flip, it passed by an unbeatable two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Third, the center-left\u2019s course correction from pro-migrant virtue-signaling to pro-sanity common sense followed continuous pressure from the U.S. over the last 18 months, which ceaselessly argued that Europe was destroying itself with its open-borders migration policies, and often linked them to America\u2019s pullback from NATO. According to this headline from EU News<\/a>, last week, a majority of EU voters now want ICE-like migration policies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You might fairly ask why I linked this political tipping point in Europe to Trump\u2019s re-election. After all, as the experts always remind us, correlation doesn\u2019t prove causation.<\/em> Maybe Trump\u2019s election and the rise of sanity in Europe were both caused by some other third factor. To answer, I would point to one specific policy decision, the closure of USAID, and to one person, President Trump, over whom the EU leaders fawned at yesterday\u2019s G7 Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"🔥\" First, follow the money! Think-tank analysts estimate that up to $2.3 billion annually<\/em> in U.S. aid ($23 billion every 10 years) was tied to Europe\u2019s \u201cmigration management\u201d work. USAID\u2019s closure effectively zeroed this out, leaving a sudden, large gap in financing for development and protection projects in the countries of origin and transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, USAID paid the countries where migrants came from, and it paid the countries through which they traveled on their way to Europe. No longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USAID money spigot is closed. Now the EU is reversing those incentives\u2014 by paying origin countries to \u201chost\u201d their own migrants. And, whether it was through tariffs, NATO drawdowns, or energy markets, President Trump has beaten European politics in arm-wrestling. This astonishing turnaround was far from certain. EU leaders actively opposed him during Trump 1.0. Remember this iconic 2018 picture, coincidentally also taken at a G7 Summit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or this nearly-as-famous shot of the German delegation at the UN General Assembly in September 2018, showing the German Foreign Minister and Ambassador smirking and laughing as Trump warned about Germany\u2019s over-reliance on Russian oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump opposes open borders and unregulated immigration, especially in the U.S., but also in Europe. Headline from EuroNews<\/a>, last September:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In July, he spoke at the UN with rhetoric resembling blunt-force trauma. \u201cYou\u2019d better get your act together, or you\u2019re not going to have a Europe anymore,\u201d the President warned angrily, like he was leading an intervention. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to stop this horrible invasion that\u2019s happening to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in complete contrast to their smirking defiance during Trump 1.0, European leaders hang on his every word. They laugh in delight rather than derision when he strolls in late and tells them he is \u201cthe boss.\u201d The leaders who used to resist him now want to curry his favor, because he\u2019s got all the leverage<\/em>. (TAW.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is difficult to overestimate how encouraging this week\u2019s anti-migration vote is for the world\u2019s prospects. With Europe\u2019s electric migration issue handled by a broad coalition majority<\/em>, what else could this newly empowered bloc accomplish, now that it has finally found its political legs? Free speech? Grooming gangs? Reversing decades of social degeneracy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could the West\u2019s inevitable decline have just become a little less inevitable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If, one year ago, I\u2019d told you this was possible, you\u2019d have laughed me right off of Substack. Yet here we are. As I assured our European cousins early last year: hang tight. After we save ourselves, we\u2019re coming to save you, too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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