Product of a medieval Jurassic mind

Build a wall!

Donald Trump suggested the Spanish government tackled the Mediterranean migration crisis by emulating one of his most famous policies and building a wall across the Sahara desert, the country’s foreign minister has revealed.

According to Josep Borrell, the US president brushed off the scepticism of Spanish diplomats – who pointed out that the Sahara stretched for 3,000 miles – saying: “The Sahara border can’t be bigger than our border with Mexico.”

  Guardian

Jesus, what a dingleberry.

Another small problem:

Spain holds only two small enclaves in north Africa – Ceuta and Melilla – and such a wall would have to be built on foreign territory.

And one more:

Spain has found itself on the frontlines of the migration crisis, with more than 33,600 migrants and refugees arriving by sea so far this year, and 1,723 dying in the attempt.

He hasn't even considered the sea route problem for OUR country. He really has the mind of a two-year-old. Which gives me an idea: just cover his eyes and he'll think the immigrants have disappeared.

Borrell, a former president of the European parliament, has previously accused Europe of “ostrich politics” over migration and called for perspective on the matter. “We’re talking about 20,000 migrants so far this year for a country of more than 40 million inhabitants,” he said in July. “That’s not mass migration.”

He also said Spain’s problems were dwarfed by those of some Middle Eastern countries hosting refugees from the war in Syria, adding: “We’re trivialising the word ‘mass’.”

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“We’ve sorted the economic problem, but not the migration problem because it’s an emotional problem and not one you fix with money,” he said, according to reports by El País and Europa Press. “European societies aren’t structured to absorb more than a certain percentage of migrants, especially if they are Muslims.”

And it's always couched as an economical (plus religious) problem for the emigrant country. Rarely are there reports on the problems of the immigrants that drive them. One might imagine that, if spent some time and money on preventing what's causing them to emigrate, everyone might be better off. Content people able to make decent lives don't typically want to leave their homes for a foreign country.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.