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irelephant [he/him] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

1w ago

The schengen.

Source: https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032733056555001

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But Germany caught 460 illegal migrants, deporting them illegally back over the border and that for a mere 80mio € within about 10 months!
(No exaggeration, BTW)
- 460 migrants for 80 million? What’s that, 173k per person? It would cost less money to pay for them to be set up well to, you know: help the economy, contribute to the pension of the aging population.
  Hell, just give them the money directly to go somewhere else lmao.
  
  That is one of the most bizarre things IMO: even to a right-wing populist it must be apparent that immigration to European countries is an objective necessity for the economy
  
  And that's just the direct costs to the police. The indirect stuff, supply chain issues, waiting times, etc. aren't even included.
  It's like always with right wing/proto fascist politics: optics over function.
  
  For real though, "You can't stay here, but we'll buy a ticket for you to literally anywhere on earth" at the very least would be infinitely better, cheaper and more humane
  
  To be fair, the dark figure must be far higher and without trying to find them or making it legal, it will be more again. So at the end this will still be cheaper overall, but of course without immigration it can't work long term.

The rascist/nationalist fuckery around internal borders is peak EU hypocrisy. I’m from Eastern EU, and drive a lot between Germany and my home country, so I see this often on my trips.
Cars are slowed to a crawl first at the Austrian border, where me, a white guy driving a newish car with German plates is waved through, but e.g. Romanian license plate cars are stopped often. Then a bit after crossing the German border, cars are slowed again to 10 km/h, but it is technically not a border crossing, just a random checkpoint on the highway staffed by policemen with rifles.
This shit adds hours to the trip of any commuter, is pure performatory right-wing bullshit, and goes against every value that the EU preaches.
- I wonder how they handle cross-border train rides...
  
  I don't remember ever being delayed or stopped on swiss /french or swiss/german crossings in a train.
  
  random searches. they stop the trains in the middle of nowhere and armed police walk through to check the passport of anyone they deem suspicious.
  at least that's how they did it in germany. in denmark the old mustachioed conductor did it with the ticket check as the train was in motion. much smoother
  
  The train from Italy to France stops for 20(?) minutes just across the border and police walk through that carriages and look for "suspicious" people. They never made it up to 1st class where we were sitting. Then the train continues at 300km/h

For other dumb Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

I'm ~~interested in seeing how this one does~~ monitoring the situation very closely 😈
- it's doing surprisingly well.
  
  Yeah I'm kinda surprised, is it because of the time posted or because it doesn't "insult" the EU directly (from the lib POV)? 🤔

Yeah, but in the future AI will do that and you won't even be able to dispute the charges brought against you because you have the wrong skin color or some wrong mentality lol.
You like old gangster rap and you watch crime movies and you have a gun at home and you're not white? Your bank account is blocked you can't buy anything in stores.
Just imagine that you are being beaten and you have no right to respond because you have some wrong social profile or your parents did something in the past, for example criticized the government, otherwise you will be arrested.
This will be fun.

What is this meme in reference to? I mean, I know what the Schengen area is, but is there some news or something circulating to suggest this racism is taking place? It's not hard to believe, but I'm just out of the loop on the issue.
- The source is a thread with more context.
  tl;dr, you get checked to make sure you're european at some schengen borders, but white people mostly get left alone since they're "obviously" european.
- Just look at the poland- germany circus border situation.

Tbf they also pull out all rental cars. Those usually are registered to the same area with tax benefits so they pull out all cars with that area code. At least that's what friends with company cars tell me, they always get pulled out at the german border. Which is just great, business travel to neighboring countries is just the kind of thing we want to crack down on 🤡.

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