Western politicians turn to walls, deportations as public cools on migration

The current flow of migrants crossing Europe’s borders is only a fraction of what’s to come once climate change forces increasing movement of desperate people whose homes are no longer livable.

Under pressure following a deadly knife attack in his country, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised to speed up deportations of asylum-seekers whose applications have been refused.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/European Commission

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 28, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Fortress America and Festung Europa (Fortress Europe) are just starting to take shape; bare outlines of what they will have grown into 10 years from now. But the trend is almost unstoppable, and it will be very ugly when it’s finished.

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