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Outrage as Swiss move to segregate asylum-seekers
BBC ^ | 7 August 2013

Posted on 08/08/2013 10:22:49 AM PDT by george76

Some Swiss towns plan to keep asylum-seekers away from public places such as swimming pools, playing fields and libraries, in a move human rights groups say is racist.

The curbs are aimed at preventing tensions with residents, officials say.

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Roman Staub, mayor of the town of Menzingen, said asylum-seekers should be banned from "sensitive areas" such as the vicinity of a school. "This is certainly a very difficult area, because here asylum-seekers could meet our schoolchildren - young girls or young boys,"

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In June voters overwhelmingly backed a controversial move to tighten asylum restrictions, amid a spike in the number of refugees in the country.

Switzerland counts one asylum-seeker for every 332 inhabitants. The European average is one asylum-seeker for every 625 inhabitants.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asylum; asylumseekers; swiss; switzerland

1 posted on 08/08/2013 10:22:49 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

The Swiss don’t want to become the UK or Sweden..


2 posted on 08/08/2013 10:26:11 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: george76
"Camp of the Saints" was a documentary.
3 posted on 08/08/2013 10:28:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: george76

I hope they can stick by their guns and keep their nation clean.


4 posted on 08/08/2013 10:29:18 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: george76

If the Swiss were smart, they would reject all asylum seekers.

How do these people get to Switzerland in the first place? How many borders do they have to cross to get there?


5 posted on 08/08/2013 10:29:38 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: george76

Why does any Western nation deliberately import untold thousands of poor, uneducated, often criminal Third World parasites? Does the word “racist” really have SO much power that citizens would commit national suicide to avoid it?


6 posted on 08/08/2013 10:30:03 AM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: george76

Any nation with a modicum of success is a sitting duck for the parasites that invade to get in on the gravy. It’s much easier to sneak into another country than it is to stand up to the corrupt despots running their own.


7 posted on 08/08/2013 10:31:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: montag813

“Does the word “racist” really have SO much power that
citizens would commit national suicide to avoid it “.
The short answer is YES.


8 posted on 08/08/2013 10:34:31 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
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To: george76

It looks like finally some countries are seeing the light and cracking down. There was a story yesterday about how a law recently passed in Russia requires that all illegal aliens and people who overstay their visas be rounded up and sent to camps until they can be processed to be sent back or their applications for legal status are approved.


9 posted on 08/08/2013 10:39:23 AM PDT by apillar
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To: certrtwngnut
“Does the word “racist” really have SO much power that citizens would commit national suicide to avoid it “. The short answer is YES.

Only the Western Nations, in the rest of world being labeled a racist would barely elicit a bored shrug.

10 posted on 08/08/2013 10:41:29 AM PDT by apillar
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To: george76

Who’s outraged? Certainly not the people who’ll have to share the slums with these 3rd worlders.


11 posted on 08/08/2013 10:48:21 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: george76

They need to push them over the nearest border. They had to cross through Italy, Germany, France to get there. Can any of them claim to be endangered in Italy, Germany, or France?

If the Swiss don’t buck up, they are going to lose their sovereignty and once lost, its pretty tough getting it back. The generation that loses it won’t live to see it return.


12 posted on 08/08/2013 11:16:22 AM PDT by marron
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The only way that you can work asylum-seekers....is to allow them to enter and then you direct them to a listed village by state standards....not allowing them to become part of some ‘clan’ or ethnic enclave in some larger city. Once they arrive in some two-cow village in the middle of nowhere...they are forced into integration, language, and say adios to their religious dedication.

Islamic figures will get huffy if you make this rule, but it really takes the steam out of this mess. You make the rule that they have to stay five years in some small village, before they can move anywhere else, and the whole game changes overnight.


13 posted on 08/09/2013 7:25:42 AM PDT by pepsionice
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