TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY – AT 5:41 P.M. ET:  The refugee crisis that we're seeing played out in the Mideast and Europe is the worst since the end of World War II.  Now countries are realizing they can use it as a political weapon by threatening to flood other countries.  From London's Telegraph:

Libya has issued a veiled threat to send "hundreds of thousands" of extra migrants to Europe if Brussels does not give official recognition to its self-declared Islamist government.

Officials say they could hire boats to send large numbers of African migrants across the Mediterranean, massively adding to the numbers already reaching Europe's borders.

The warning was made by a spokesman for Libya's General National Congress in an interview with The Telegraph in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The Congress took control of Tripoli last year after fighting against forces loyal to the internationally- recognised House of Representatives government, and is not recognised by the European Union as Libya's legitimate government. A fortnight ago, both factions also rejected the terms of a United Nations-brokered peace deal.

Jamal Zubia, the Congress's foreign media spokesman, told The Telegraph that Libya was currently spending tens of millions of pounds a year stopping migrants from crossing the Mediterranean, through the use of detention centres and repatriation programs.

He said that if Europe continued to refuse to recognise the Congress's authority, the Libyan government could reverse the policy.

COMMENT:  I fear that Obama, in the months before he leaves office, will open the floodgates to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of refugees and those posing as refugees, who have no intention of becoming Americans, but who seek the benefits.  As a committed leftist, that would be his dream. 

If Hillary Clinton is elected, she'd go right along with such a policy, because her base would demand it. 

November 3, 2015