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US President Donald Trump mentioned Greece during his code astatine the UN General Assembly, where helium criticized the migration policies of European countries.
“Both the migration and the suicidal vigor ideas will beryllium the decease of western Europe, if something is not done immediately, this cannot beryllium sustained,” Trump said, arguing that countries person a close to bounds the fig of migrants entering their territories.
Trump cited the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics connected Prison Populations, highlighting that successful respective European countries, including Greece, a important stock of inmates successful 2024 were overseas nationals.
“According to the Council of Europe successful 2024 astir 50% of inmates successful German prisons were overseas nationals oregon migrants, successful Austria the fig was 53%, successful Greece the fig was 54% and successful Switzerland 72%,” helium said.
Trump went connected to telephone for an extremity to what helium described arsenic “open-borders.”
“When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers, who they repaid kindness with crime, it’s clip to extremity the failed experimentation of unfastened borders you person to extremity it now,” Trump said.
“Your countries are going to hell,” helium added, noting that the United States has already taken measures to bounds immigration.
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