Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2016

Austria has decided to impose stringent border controls at the Spielfeld crossing from Slovenia, where would-be migrants will be thoroughly vetted and searched. It will also set a cap on the number of “refugees” that will be allowed into the country. However, Doctors Without Borders is critical of the EU’s tougher policing and attempts to deter migrants, saying that a better approach would be to expand legal immigration into Europe.

In other news, satellite imagery confirms that St Elijah’s Monastery, the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, has been turned into rubble by the Islamic State.…