The European Court of Justice has just ruled that migrants crossing illegally into a country cannot be jailed or prosecuted. It is astonishing that a country would give up the ability to control who goes in and out of their territory, but that is what membership in the European Union apparently means.
Luxembourg (AFP) – EU countries cannot imprison illegal migrants just for crossing borders inside the passport-free Schengen area, the bloc’s top court ruled Tuesday, in a new blow to efforts to crack down on the migration crisis.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg said that European Union rules prevent the jailing of non-EU migrants who have illegally crossed a frontier if they have not already been subject to deportation procedures.
The ruling came in the case of a Ghanaian woman, Selina Affum, who was caught by French police at the Channel Tunnel while on a bus from Belgium to Britain using someone else’s passport.
French police placed her in custody for illegal entry to France, and then asked Belgium to readmit her.
The EU court, ruling on Affum’s appeal against her detention, said that it was against the EU’s “return directive” or laws on deporting migrants.
The Schengen passport-free area of 26 European countries has come under severe pressure from the continent’s biggest migration crisis since World War II as people flee war in Syria and elsewhere.
Faced with an an influx of more than one million migrants and refugees in the past year and a half, many Schengen countries have brought back border controls that were dismantled a decade ago.
The Obama administration is creating much the same situation as it refuses to enforce immigration laws and invites refugees in from the Middle East with no ability to verify who they are or what their background is. We simply know that they come from somewhere in the Middle East or Africa (or other areas), and that many of them are Muslims who may or may not be affiliated with terrorist groups like ISIS. Latin American immigrants come and are a huge economic drain to the country, and are adding to the problem of unemployment for U.S. citizens.
While it may seem noble to open the borders and let anyone in who desires to come, the problem is that there are a host of unintended consequences that come with the waves of immigrants. That is why the Constitution set forth certain limits, which every president swears to abide by.
The travesty is that President Obama, President Bush, and political leaders before them have ignored the laws and statutes controlling immigration and have inflicted unfair suffering on the citizens of this country. Just as in Europe, the local people have lost control of their own countries, and they are paying a price for not recognizing the value of national borders and enforced rules of immigration.
Hang em ALL