Greece plans fence on Turkish border

Greece to build fence to stop migrants
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Greece aims to build an 8-mile border fence and boost its Coast Guard to stem illegal Immigration via neighboring Turkey. Greece's Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis, who announced the plan Monday, said it was necessary after more than 100,000 people entered Greece illegally in 2010. "This is the hard reality and we have an obligation to the Greek citizens to deal with it," Papoutsis said in a statement. "Greek society has exceeded its limit in its capacity ...

Greece plans Turkey migrant fence
Greece has announced plans to build a 12km (eight-mile) fence along part its border with Turkey to prevent Illegal Immigrants from crossing the border. Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis said more than 100,000 people had entered Greece illegally last year and Athens had a duty to act. Greece has long complained to Turkey about Border Security. But the European Commission said such fences were "short-term measures" which did not tackle the root of the problem. The proposed fence ...

Greece considers fence on part of Turkish border
Not sure the Greek government heard how well the U.S./Mexico Border Fence was "working" but the Immigration news from Europe today  is that Greece is considering building a fence along a section of its border with Turkey.  Good luck Greece! KJ ...

Greece to build wall on Turkish border
Young immigrants at a detention centre in Filakio on the Greek-Turkish border. Photo: AP Brussels: Greece has announced plans to build a wall along its 206-kilometre land border with Turkey to keep out Illegal Immigrants. Christos Papoutsis, a Greek Interior Minister, insisted the wall was necessary after Brussels intervened last year to prevent an Immigration crisis by sending an elite taskforce of border guards to protect the frontier between Greece and Turkey, the European Union's most insecu...

Greece To Build Anti-Migrant Fence Along Section Of Turkish Border
Greece on Monday announced plans to build an 8-mile long fence along a section of its land border with Turkey to keep out illegal migrants. The Border Fence plan was announced by Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis, who claimed that more than 100,000 illegal migrants had entered Greece though the porous border with Turkey just last year alone. Pointing out that Greece has reached its limit in taking in illegal migrants, Papoutsis stressed that his government was determined to build the bo...

Greece considers fence on part of Turkish border
ATHENS, Greece - Greece's public order minister says the country is considering building a fence along part of its border with Turkey to deter illegal Immigration. Christos Papoutsis says the measure would be part of an effort to boost border Surveillance in Greece — the busiest transit point for Illegal Immigrants entering the European Union. Papoutsis made the remarks in an interview with Greece's state news agency that was posted on his web site Monday. Ministry officials say the ...

Greece: Fence Is Considered to Bar Illegal Immigrants
Source: New York Times Greece: Fence Is Considered to Bar Illegal Immigrants By THE Associated Press Published: January 3, 2011 Greece is considering building a fence along a section of its border with Turkey that is the busiest transit point for illegal Immigration in Europe, the minister of citizen protection said Monday. “Greek society has exceeded its limit in its capacity to accommodate illegal immigrants,” the minister, Christos Papoutsis, said in an interview posted on his Web site. “G

World update: Progress in Ivory Coast standoff?
Ivory Coast crisis:  Political rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara have agreed to meet, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union mediator in the crisis, has told local reporters. Sudan Referendum: President Omar al-Bashir has landed in the southern city of Juba today ahead of Sunday's referendum. The vote could ultimately see the creation of a new African nation in 2011. Iran invitation to IAEA: Tehran has invited ambassadors from different countries...

Believe it or not, despite the Eurozone crisis, most countries sovereign credit risk fares better at the end of 2010 vs. 2009
The funny thing is that most people wouldn't believe the premises of the story that in the diourse of the last year, risk has fallen dramaally. Well, it is true considering where we were at the end of 2009 we thought that the world was going to end. When it didn't the market breathed a sigh of relief. Via Moody's: The “man-bites-dog” story of 2010 is that global sovereign credit risk actually generally improved in 2010, even in Europe, where the Sovereign Debt crisis intensified and ...

Greece fortifying border to halt migrants
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Greece will build a fence on its land border with Turkey to stem the flow of illegal migrants, a Cabinet minister says. Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis told the Athens News Agency the government will take a harder line and criticized other European Union countries for inaction despite the dispatch of dozens of guards from the EU border agency Frontex along the Greek-Turkish border in November. "Cooperation with other EU states is not going well. ...

Greece to Build Border Wall to Keep Out Illegal Immigrants...
The Greek government has unveiled plans to construct a wall along its 128-mile land border with Turkey in order to tackle the influx of Illegal Immigrants. Interior Minister Christian Papoutsis said the wall was a necessary measure after more than 100,000 people illegally entered the Mediterranean nation last year. But the plans - which have compared with the 650-mile barrier along sections of the border between the U.S. and Mexico - have been criticised by the European Commission as a 'short-te...

Cyprus to license offshore oil and gas search
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - A top Cyprus energy official said Tuesday that the Mediterranean island will go ahead with a second licensing round for Offshore Oil and gas exploration later this year in a move that could stoke tensions with Turkey. The island's 51,000-square-kilometer (17,000-square-mile) exploration area off its southern coast is divided into 13 blocks. Kassinis said two blocks on the easternmost edge of the exploration area that were left out of the first licensing round in 2007 will...

States plan crackdown on immigration but risk Latino ire
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Republican State Legislatures are ramping up a crackdown on Illegal Immigrants this year, in a concerted drive that risks alienating potential business allies and Latino voters. At least seven states are tipped to follow Arizona's Controversial push last year to curb illegal Immigration, and more than a dozen are harmonizing efforts to cancel birthright Citizenship for the U.S. born Children of illegal immigrants. Lawmakers say the cooperation is unprecedented, and responds ...

States plan crackdown on immigration but risk Latino ire
By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX | Tue Jan 4, 2011 6:26pm EST PHOENIX (Reuters) - Republican State Legislatures are ramping up a crackdown on Illegal Immigrants this year, in a concerted drive that risks alienating potential business allies and Latino voters. At least seven states are tipped to follow Arizona's Controversial push last year to curb illegal Immigration, and more than a dozen are harmonizing efforts to cancel birthright Citizenship for the U.S. born Children of illegal immigrants. Lawmaker...

States plan crackdown on immigration but risk Latino ire
By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX | Tue Jan 4, 2011 6:53pm EST PHOENIX (Reuters) - Republican State Legislatures are ramping up a crackdown on Illegal Immigrants this year, in a concerted drive that risks alienating potential business allies and Latino voters. At least seven states are tipped to follow Arizona's Controversial push last year to curb illegal Immigration, and more than a dozen are harmonizing efforts to cancel birthright Citizenship for the U.S. born Children of illegal immigrants. Lawmaker...

GOP comes out swinging against undocumented immigrants and Cesar Chavez
LatinaLista.net -- Ever since the GOP garnered big wins in the 2010 Midterm Elections, the Immigration Extremists in the party, who couldn't care less about the Latino vote or Latinos, have acted like the mid-term wins were a sign from the American People to act upon their agenda of persecuting undocumented immigrants and revoking the 14th Constitutional Amendment that says Children born in the United States are U.S. citizens. Obviously, they need a reminder: The mid-term election win was all ...

How much do immigrants cost?
Anti-immigrant Rhetoric talks about the costs of legal and Illegal Immigrants, but what does that really add up to?...

Ritter expected to make announcement on use of Secure Communities data
Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to announce an agreement Tuesday with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that would make it easier to deport Illegal Immigrants booked into Colorado jails. Ritter's signature on the Secure Communities agreement would come after months of negotiations with federal officials in an attempt to get special conditions for Colorado to sign on to the program. Secure Communities is a program that matches fingerprints of people booked into jail against a da...

All-American Canal: Buoys Strung On Border Waterway To Prevent Drownings
CALEXICO, Calif. — A government agency on the front lines of the Immigration debate has begun installing lifesaving buoys in a fast-moving canal along the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants drown each year as they sneak into the country illegally. The debate over the lifelines has long presented authorities with a moral dilemma: Is it acceptable to do nothing when so many immigrants are dying in the water? Or do lifesaving devices lull immigrants into a false sense of security that they can c...

Immigrant advocates press for repeal of Herndon day labor law
James P. Moran Jr. What Is Right for Virginia? Social justice and Immigration advocates joined with some Herndon residents Tuesday morning to ask the Herndon Town Council to rescind an ordinance they say violates day laborers' Civil Rights. The anti-solicitation ordinance prohibits people standing on town roads to communicate to drivers that they are looking for work, distribute pamphlets or ask for contributions. The council is scheduled to discuss the ordinance in closed session Tuesday nigh...

Birthright Citizenship Looms as Immigration Fight
Laura Gomez, an Illegal Immigrant from Mexico who is six months pregnant, said she came to the United States to find work. By MARC LACEY NYT NOGALES, Ariz. — Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez stood out. Eight months pregnant, she had tried to waddle north, even carrying scissors with her in case she gave birth in the desert and had to cut the umbilical cord. “All I want is a better life,” she said after the Bor

Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
An agency has quietly begun installing lifesaving buoys in a fast-moving canal along the U.S.-Mexico border in California. Several Illegal Immigrants die each year in the waterway as they sneak into the U.S., and the agency that runs the canal has long faced a moral dilemma about whether to place lifelines in the water. The Imperial Irrigation District reversed course in August and has been bolting 105 lines across the 82-mile desert canal at a cost of $1.1 million. Crews are also planting more ...

'Pathway to citizenship' advisory bill proposed for 2012 ballot
Democratic Assemblyman Tony Mendoza proposed Legislation this week that would place an advisory measure on the ballot asking Californians whether the United States should grant longtime Illegal Immigrants a pathway to Citizenship. Assembly Bill 78 would apply to undocumented residents who have worked in the United States for at least five years, can speak English, have no felony convictions, and "have paid all taxes for which they are responsible." Mendoza's bill declares that debate is raging...

U.S.: Iran offer for nuclear site visits is a 'magical mystery tour'
Ahead of talks in Turkey, Iran has invited Russia, China and the EU, but not the U.S., to view its nuclear facilities....

Iran invites EU, Russia and China to tour its nuclear sites
Move comes ahead of new round of nuclear talks in Turkey with six major world powers; U.S. not on the invite list....