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Roma people are fleeing Romania for US-Mexico border to escape persecution
The World ^ | June 21, 2021 | Orla Barry

Posted on 06/22/2021 7:08:37 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Cristiana Grigore isn’t surprised by the news that scores of Roma are traveling thousands of miles from Romania in Eastern Europe to the US-Mexico border, hoping to gain asylum in the United States.

US Customs and Border Protection said it has detained 2,217 Romanians so far this year, much higher than the numbers apprehended in 2020 — which it estimates at around 226 people — many of Roma ethnicity.

Grigore, who runs the Roma People’s Project at Columbia University in New York, said the pandemic has increased levels of poverty among Roma communities. Grigore is Roma and comes from the small city of Slatina in southern Romania.

(Excerpt) Read more at pri.org ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: gypsies; gypsy; roma
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Their dream, our nightmare.


21 posted on 06/22/2021 7:31:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Once when a Spaniard was lecturing me on how racist Americans are I asked him “would you let your daughter marry a gypsy?” He looked at me like I had spat in his face and said “No! Of course not!” I shrugged and said “so who’s racist?” His response: “But but but ... that’s totally different! Gypsy’s are all thieves!”


22 posted on 06/22/2021 7:31:49 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Red Badger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q


23 posted on 06/22/2021 7:32:52 AM PDT by FreshPrince (P )
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To: FreshPrince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8


24 posted on 06/22/2021 7:37:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: alloysteel

Persecuted so much they have all the resources to travel thousands of miles to walk across the Southern US border and get on welfare. They are coming to live off the work of the stupid gringo like everyone else. Close the border. They can get asylum in Mexico.


25 posted on 06/22/2021 7:42:49 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Next there will be hordes of Irish Travellers.


26 posted on 06/22/2021 7:43:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ronniesgal
The Irish gypsies, or Travelers, are native Irish of Celtic stock and, unless they have married into actual Roma, are indistinguishable from other Irish or British people. Some Travelers came to the U.S. mostly into the South,particularly Fort Worth, Texas, and North Augusta, South Carolina, and are involved in home improvement and other scams.
27 posted on 06/22/2021 7:44:13 AM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: Red Badger

Joining the tramps and thieves to validate the 1971 racist xenophobic prediction by that great sage, Cher.


28 posted on 06/22/2021 7:44:29 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Bonemaker

We get them in Atlanta. Most Irish Travellers live in a city in SC.


29 posted on 06/22/2021 7:45:06 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The enlightened Yoorowpeons sure do love having someone to hate. Given a chance they’d eagerly build camps and gas chambers again.


30 posted on 06/22/2021 7:48:54 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: dfwgator

“Go to any major European city and they are swarming with them, especially Paris.”

Hmm. Can we conclude anything from the fact that a lot of them want to come to America? Could we surmise that America is more welcoming and they get free stuff over here?


31 posted on 06/22/2021 8:10:02 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: pepsi_junkie

“Once when a Spaniard was lecturing me on how racist Americans are I asked him ‘would you let your daughter marry a gypsy?’ He looked at me like I had spat in his face and said ‘No! Of course not!’ I shrugged and said ‘so who’s racist?’ His response: ‘But but but ... that’s totally different! Gypsy’s are all thieves!’ ”

LOL! A universal attitude, you find it all over. People are very supportive of groups they don’t have to live with!


32 posted on 06/22/2021 8:38:59 AM PDT by River Hawk
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To: dfwgator

The Travellers. There is a whole district of them on the inter Carolina border. It is their base camp. They are mostly Irish but some Scottish there, too. Great Britain has lots of them.


33 posted on 06/22/2021 8:44:31 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe l)
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To: River Hawk

Like Madonna.

Worldly people. They’ll take from anyone.


34 posted on 06/22/2021 8:45:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (ADAMS WAS A )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They want a few pieces of your and my American Dream.


35 posted on 06/22/2021 8:47:02 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe l|)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Democrats welcome them with open arms more troops.


36 posted on 06/22/2021 8:47:28 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They are gypsies, and make their living by stealing and swindling. Soon to be a protected group in the USA.


37 posted on 06/22/2021 10:06:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Roma will put the other victim peddlars in the USA to shame lolol They have victimhood down to an artform, most euro states have no clue on how to ban them from their “cultural activities”.


38 posted on 06/22/2021 10:43:40 AM PDT by Katya (lacking in the feelings department, )
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To: Red Badger

Yes, gypsies. Watch out for ROOFERS and PICKPOCKETS!


39 posted on 06/22/2021 11:09:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"In Europe, saying you're a Roma is almost like saying you're a criminal."



40 posted on 06/22/2021 4:39:02 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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