At a time of tight budgets and high unemployment, France and Germany want to set up border checks. They want to keep out the recent flood of Tunisian refugees in the wake of war, revolution, and the Arab Spring. 25,000 Tunisian refugees poured into Italy before April 5. The Italian government gave them temporary residence permits. Many of them now sit in train stations trying to penetrate the recently closed borders to get to the most prosperous countries in Europe.
What the Europeans are not saying is that the borders remain open to those who are white, speak French and German, and look and act like them. But the borders are being closed to those who don’t pass the color or culture test. This is the sort of thinking that led Himmler to create the death camps and concentration camps of World War II as a place to get rid of unwanted Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, and other groups deemed undesirable. If economic times grow worse, is that the sort of modus operandi we would return to? There is no way to feed and house the unwanted groups, so you get rid of them anyway you can?
Remember 25,000 is a small part of the 600,000 who fled to Egypt and Tunisia in the wake of the Libyan Civil War. If they had been 25,000 Frenchmen or 25,000 Germans they wouldn’t be noticed. But being Arabs everyone wants to keep them out. That is the kind of thinking that certain radical thinkers among the National Socialists would have sympathized with.
