@Molotoff
What's the astonishment mate? It is far easier and more safer than through a journey that takes them through the Sahara desert, Libya and then into an over-crowded inflatable boat to Italy where they are unwanted even after they claimed on their asylum papers to have converted to Christianity or are gays?
How many "Christian" asylum-seekers are really Christians?
More asylum-seekers entering Europe from Africa and the Middle East are claiming they are "Christians" and will be persecuted if they're returned to their Islamic homelands. Two religion writers, from Italy and Norway, suggested it's hard for refugee boards to determine the truth. Photo shows desperate asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean Sea this year in smugglers' boats.
Many asylum-seekers in Europe from authoritarian Muslim-majority countries are telling refugee boards they are Christians — arguing they therefore cannot return to their countries of origin, where they would be persecuted.
The claims of such self-professed Christians are causing dilemmas for refugee board panels, who are having a great deal of difficulty discerning the truth.
"Norheim has been covering the difficult issues surrounding refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and elsewhere who have been making their way to a potential new life in Norway and other parts of Scandinavia.
She recently researched groups of Somali Christians who had converted from Islam at various times — in Somalia, in Norway and in third countries on their way to Norway."
https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/how-many-christian-asylum-seekers-are-really-christians
LGBT asylum seekers face 'intimate questions', prejudice in Germany.
After Khadar arrived in Germany from Somalia in December 2014, he waited nearly two years for his asylum interview - the appointment that would decide if he could stay in the country.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-questions-prejudice-in-germany-idUSKBN1AG1FI
Interviews with asylum seekers reveal why the Home Office rejects so many LGBT claims.
http://theconversation.com/intervie...ome-office-rejects-so-many-lgbt-claims-122905
For fok sake, even this gangbanger with 100 convictions in Minnesota claimed to be gay in his asylum bid in Canada because Trump would have deported him to Somalia.
I offered them an alternative, do you have one?