Ignoring the reality of the migration crisis

The government has responded to intensifying demands to ease the pressure on the five eastern Aegean islands that are on the front line of the migration/refugee crisis by creating new detention facilities. It has responded to the demand for the immediate transfer of tens of thousands of asylum seekers to facilities on the mainland by planning to put them behind walls on the islands. On Lesvos, those who can't fit into the existing facility at Moria will be moved to another camp a few kilometers away. And local authorities that reacted to this decision have been served with requisition papers for plots on which to build these pre-departure detention camps. But at least the matter was discussed first, and quite thoroughly, according to the government.

In a way, the current government is following in the footsteps on the previous SYRIZA administration's failed policy, by...