With the flood of Muslim migrants and refugees into Europe showing little sign of abating anytime soon, many European nations have taken steps to tighten their borders and close off the preferred routes of the migrants through the Balkan nations of southern and central Europe.
As those routes become squeezed, many migrants have now shifted to Italy as their gateway into Europe, a development that recently caused Austria to announce that it would be closing down the important Brenner Pass that connects Austria to Italy along their mountainous border.
With nowhere else to turn, the migrant flow through Italy will now head toward Switzerland, but the typically neutral Swiss are not staying out of the fight this time around, according to Breitbart. The nation’s leaders have instead begun the deployment of their 2,000-man strong Swiss Tank Battalion to the border to prevent their country from being overrun by the migrating Muslims.
The Swiss have a tank battalion?? I bet their tanks have all kinds of special fold-away weapons. 🙂 https://t.co/dUf4DnlhqD
— mark conway ⛷⛵🏇 (@1markconway) April 15, 2016
“We expect a significant increase in the number of refugees this summer. If Austria now closes off the Brenner Pass, Switzerland will become the only gateway to Northern Europe. Before that, we have to protect ourselves,” said Norman Gobbi, the security director of the Swiss Canton of Ticino.
Gobbi revealed that Switzerland had already caught 169 migrants entering the country illegally this week alone, saying, “The refugees mainly take routes outside of the official border crossings. We must prepare ourselves for a possible migrant onslaught.”
Swiss tank battalion could be sent to Italy border to stop 'migrant onslaught' – report – RT https://t.co/ts9togeUdb
— swissbusiness (@swissbusiness) April 15, 2016