Posted on 08/31/2005 6:41:29 PM PDT by dennisw
MADRID -- Spanish authorities say they are worried about violent "military tactics" used by would-be African immigrants who have taken the small Spanish-ruled enclave of Melilla as a potential means of crossing into Europe. "They're using military tactics and strategies," the governor of the Spanish town on Moroccan territory, Jose Fernandez Chacon, told the Madrid daily El Pais. "We can't rule out the notion that militias with experience of waging African wars are among them." About 300 Africans stormed the double metal fencing surrounding Melilla "trying to cross by force and in a synchronized operation," in which 10 Spanish Civil Guards and three of the immigrants were wounded overnight Sunday, Civil Guard authorities said.
Immigrants from North Africa and West Africa are camped by the hundreds in Morocco, hoping to make their move. The forced entry Sunday, using makeshift ladders, was the second such attempt in three days. It is very difficult to enter Melilla, but the few who succeed take the risk because once across, they are taken, under Spanish law, to a temporary hostel center where they get food, medical care and legal aid -- with the chance of a passport to Spain and thus Europe.
The last concerted assault on such a scale was in August last year, when almost 500 people tried to cross.
Once on the Spanish mainland, those without papers are given their freedom with an expulsion warning if their nationality cannot be established or if their state of origin has no repatriation agreement with Spain. Only six African countries do: Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Nigeria.
five years ago, "there were no more than 400 people in the whole north" of the country seeking to emigrate. "Now there are several thousand of them."
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Encourage some of our surplus Mexican illegals to emigrate to Spain to help them hold back the Islamofacist tide.
This is one more ominous sign for spain. And need I remind you that this is the gateway to europe once spain falls they will have an army on continental europe.
The path appears set.
"...once across, they are taken, under Spanish law, to a temporary hostel center where they get food, medical care and legal aid..."
Once across they should be lined up and shot, that should put an end to it.
The "Camp of the Saints" reference is to a book of that name by Jean Raspail, a bestseller in France in the 1980s, about how millions of third-worlders swarm over the border into France and destroy the country--with the help of the French left.
Spain does have a problem also with Latin American illegal immigrants, principally from the Andean countries of South America according to what I've read, who have a easier time "blending in" because of their command of Spanish.
The worst of the Latino illegal immigrants are still far,far better than the best of the Islamofacist immigrants. The former may suckle your social services and consume your tax dollars, but the latter will cut off your head.
I don't see why Spain should be forced to accept either, if the Spanish people don't want them. And the majority doesn't---it's a small leftist Euro-elite in coalition with the usual bunch of cheap wage business scofflaw types that is driving the recent Zapatero government amnesty that is guaranteed to suck in thousands more illegals, or clandestinos as they are called in Spain.
We have a huge Peruvian contingent in Florida. Legal and illegal. Colombian too. They come on visas and can never be booted out once they hook up with an immigration lawyer. Brazilians are here in great numbers but the largest community is west of Boston around Framingham.
Ah, immigration lawyers! Another charter member of the nefarious OBL coalition.
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