Posted on 02/13/2004 11:41:41 AM PST by Map Kernow
Kicked out ... 'liberal' Holland expels 26,000 illegals
THE Government has finally responded to public fury by kicking 26,000 asylum cheats out of the country.
No, not the British Government. That would be too much to expect.
This crackdown is taking place in Holland, the most tolerant and easy-going nation in Europe.
Dutch politicians have finally stopped wringing their hands and are listening to their own voters.
The scale of the deportation plans are huge for a country whose population is a quarter the size of Britain’s.
A similar move by the UK would see the back of at least 100,000 people whose asylum claims have been rejected.
And that would not include countless others who have over-stayed or slipped in via the back of a lorry.
In Holland, even those who have settled and speak Dutch will be deported if their asylum claim has been rejected.
The Dutch government has acted despite angry protests. One Iraqi asylum seeker stitched up his eyes and lips to win sympathy.
Ministers are under pressure after the 2002 assassination of popular anti-immigration campaigner Pim Fortuyn.
He was murdered after a high-profile premiership campaign against illegal immigrants.
The new laws were brought in on Monday despite claims that ministers were acting like Nazis in the 1930s.
Main targets will be immigrants from Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq where there is no longer any threat to their safety.
They will be offered free air tickets and a lump sum for resettlement.
Those who resist will be sent to a removal centre while counsellors try to persuade them to leave quietly.
If that fails they face court and up to six months in jail.
The tolerant Dutch will stop short of rounding up the most stubborn immigrants and shipping them out in handcuffs.
But on release from jail they will be refused state funded housing, healthcare and all other benefits.
Why can’t Britain do the same?
Because nobody in Cabinet apart from Tony Blair wants to lift a finger to stop immigration.
Only 15,000 out of 250,000 failed asylum applicants in the UK are sent home each year.
Labour can’t even decide how to cope when 73million new citizens join the EU on May 1.
Every other major country has banned them from working or taking benefits for up to seven years.
Tony Blair wants to follow suit. Home Secretary David Blunkett says NO.
Despite the Government’s attempts to slash numbers, Britain remains the EU’s top immigrant destination.
The issue will boil over at the worst possible moment for Labour — as voters go to the polls in town hall and EU elections in May and June.
Extremist parties like the BNP threaten to pick up seats across Britain.
But a spring-time revolt may be only a starter for Labour.
Tony Blair has warned ministers that along with violent crime — often linked to immigrant groups — this issue now threatens to dominate the next general election.
Politicians in Europe are clearly feeling pressure from their citizenry to act to stem illegal immigration and to deport illegal immigrants. It's time our politicians here did the same.
So is the radical, irredentist "Aztlan" movement presence among Mexican immigrants in the US Southwest.
It's time to get rid of those unlawfully here, not encourage more of them to enter.
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