Posted on 02/14/2004 12:12:36 PM PST by Eurotwit
Nice quote from the article you referenced.
Of course, you don't need socialism to have these problems, but it certainly doesn't help.
btw - Amsterdam was the only place where anyone ever called me the N-word to my face - I was just standing around minding my own business and I'm not even dark skinned!
I'd say they have come to a point where they realize there are some people that are just freeloaders on whomever they can freeload off of.
We in America would like to be able to follow through with our "oppressed, tired, poor .. " etc. reception, but that sentiment was when there was only one way in (by boat into Ellis Island) and was not abused to any great extent.
Today, there are people from all over the planet that can't or won't do anything for themselves and go to a country that makes an attempt to be humanitarian. Unfortunately, the goodness of a nation is being destroyed by the badness of some people(s).
I haven't gone to Capt. Tom's link, but I would hope there is a breakdown of the nationalities involved. It would be enlightening to know that data.
Iranians and Turks.
Two people from those countries were interviewed and they both refered to themselves (and all of the others) as immigrants.
The tone of the article doesn't seem to agree with that definition.
The article states: The Netherlands has announced plans to expel as many as 26,000 failed asylum seekers.
I would gather that these people were granted "temporary asylum" which later over course of years was proven to be unjustified. Same as known illegals in our country linger for many years because of the appeals process provided to them.
Countries can set any standard they want for refugees.
High on the priority list are political refugees or non-criminal people who if returned to their country would be killed by the Government or the Dictator or would be allowed to live and suffer severely.
If a country doesn't allow economic refugees then they are the ones who will be sent back.
There are a zillion excuses made for refugee status as opposed to legal immigration, and if a wealthy country doesn't take a hard line on refugees. It will be overrun with foreign refugees who just want a better place to be than the hell hole they were born into. Or groups who have an agenda. (You dumb infidel)
Legal immigration is the route for foreigners who want to immigrate to another country. The waiting line is long so you get the line jumpers, "I'm a homosexual Arab and if I go back they will kill me, or the genital mutilation if I am returned story from the women, and a zillion other pleas. I converted to Christianity and my Muslim friends and neighbors will kill me and my family if I am sent back.
I would imagine this group the Dutch are deporting are economic refugees.
What gets lost on most American's in the present immigration debate is that when our relatives came here from the shit and squalor they lived in, they were welcome to do the same here in America if they couldn't find work.
Today we are running a welfare state and you won't suffer from any of your bad decisions, like having children you can't afford or not being able to find work. Vote for the socialists (Dems) they will get you someone else's money becomes apparent to the new immigrant whether they have a job or not. - Tom
So far it has mostly been the blood and loss of U.S. Citizens (28% of prison pop. are ILLEGALS) but if this massive invasion of ILLEGALS is ALLOWED to continue, combined with the loss of decent paying jobs and our declining standard of living, IT WILL GET VERY UGLY before it gets corrected, I PROMISE.
They have not done it yet........................
Middle Easterners Streaming Into Texas:
The HoustonChronicle.com ^ | August 2002 | Edward Hegstrom
Middle Easterners streaming to Texas
Texas has one of the nation's fastest-growing Middle Eastern populations, and most of the state's immigrants live in Houston, according to a study based on census data.
Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies say Texas' Middle Eastern population more than doubled in the last decade, to just over 100,000, including more than 52,000 in Greater Houston.
Because we're "compassionate". (/snicker)
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