{"id":179050,"date":"2018-11-14T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179050"},"modified":"2018-11-17T04:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T04:56:51","slug":"ngo-exposed-teaching-migrants-how-to-trick-fing-stupid-eu-border-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179050","title":{"rendered":"NGO exposed teaching migrants how to trick \u2018f***ing stupid\u2019 EU border guards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia Today — Nov 13, 2018<\/h1>\n
\"Migrants<\/a>

Migrants from Afghanistan clash with Syrians during a food distribution organized by the local football team Olympiacos Piraeus on the pier of the port of Piraeus near Athens, Greece. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A group that helped over 15,000 refugees and migrants to get into Europe has been caught on tape admitting to systematically training asylum seekers to exploit screening interviews by feigning trauma and persecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ariel Ricker, the executive director of Advocates Abroad, a major non-profit NGO which provides legal aid to migrants, has been caught on tape openly discussing how she teaches refugees to lie to border agents. The video was released by Canadian right-wing activist, author and internet personality, Lauren Southern, and will be a part of her new documentary film project ‘Borderless,’ which takes on the European migration crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lauren_Southern\/status\/1062030780422008833<\/p>\n

On its website, Advocates Abroad claims to have helped as many as 15,000 migrants cross the Greek border and 2,500 more outside of Greece. The organization is massive, taking volunteers from major universities, and was even featured in a documentary film<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the International Bar Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the footage, Ricker describes how the organization provides training sessions for migrants seeking entry into Europe, in which they are taught how to act during interviews with border agents:<\/span><\/p>\n

“I tell them this is acting, all of this is acting\u2026 for them to get through, they must act their part in the theater”.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She also calls EASO (European Asylum Support Office) personnel tasked with screening the migrants \u201cf***ing stupid,<\/em>\u201d and describes a formula that the organization has created to exploit them in screening interviews.<\/span><\/p>\n

One method she teaches migrants is to exploit the presumed Christian sympathies of the predominantly Eastern Orthodox Greece by pretending to have been persecuted for being Christian. She even describes telling them how to pray during interviews, ironically because doing so reflects \u201chonesty.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, the organization responded to the initial release of the video, tweeting:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Advocates<\/a>

Advocates Abroad tweet. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Since then, however, the group\u2019s Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/span> page with over 140,000 followers have both been deleted in the wake of the revelations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The organization, which was founded in 2016, helped to shuffle migrants into a cash-strapped Greece, which was struggling to recover from its long-term government-debt crisis. The majority of migrants seeking entry into Europe first come through Greece, with arrivals peaking in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, some of the real victims of the NGO\u2019s tactics are the refugees themselves\u00a0\u2013 the real refugees who were forced to compete with fake candidates trained to game the system. Ricker\u2019s \u201cacting school\u201d<\/em> even instructed its pupils to feign the emotions of trauma survivors, seemingly without a thought for those seeking asylum who don\u2019t need to pretend to be suffering from trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past few years, Greece\u2019s migrant camps have become dangerously overcrowded, resulting in violence and disease which the\u00a0UN described<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>as having reached \u201cboiling point.<\/em>\u201d But Advocates Abroad isn\u2019t responsible for maintaining the refugee camps, their only job is getting people through the gate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Southern claims that the UNHCR has already responded to the tapes by saying that they are \u201calarmed by these reports,<\/em>\u201d and the backlash on social media has been understandably strong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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