Only educated aliens need apply in Europe

Washington Times ^ | May 8, 2006 | Elizabeth Bryant

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PARIS -- European governments, facing an immigration debate much like that in the United States, are pulling in the welcome mat, especially for low-skilled, illegal aliens from Africa and other developing regions.

Increasingly, governments are introducing immigration tests and other devices to screen out all but the brightest and most qualified in the face of rising anti-immigration sentiments -- despite having an aging population that leaves many European countries in need of new workers to bankroll their welfare states.

"There is a general trend toward regulation and restricting immigration and asylum seekers in particular," said Daniele Joly, a specialist on immigration issues at the University of Warwick in England. "In appearance at least, the door is closed to immigration. And the discourse of politicians is very hostile to immigration."

France's National Assembly last week began debating legislation that would seek to screen out unskilled immigrants while making it harder for illegal aliens to gain residency and for immigrants' families to settle in France.

The bill's sponsor, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, argues that the legislation will tamp down rising xenophobia while responding to shortages of skilled laborers. But critics, including churches and leftist politicians, denounce the bill as unjust and mean-spirited.

"It will break up families," said the Rev. Francis Barjot, parish priest of the St. Hippolyte Roman Catholic Church in southern Paris. The selective-immigration clause, he said, "amounts to pillaging poor countries of their doctors, their professors, when we should be helping them develop."

Last week, 150 illegal aliens turned up at Father Barjot's church after being evicted from a state agency they had occupied to protest the immigration bill.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Seems like the US is not the only country with immigration problems...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,this seems to indicate that Europe (Old Europe,to be precise) believes that she has a right to have borders and to defend those borders.

That would leave the United States of America as the one and only nation on earth that does *not* have the right to control the inward flow of people across her borders.

[montag813]

They filter for intelligence and we open the gates for retards with drug-resistant TB.

[montag813]

ritics, including churches and leftist politicians, denounce the bill as unjust and mean-spirited.

I am really getting sick of the Catholic Church injecting itself into this debate and taking the side of the marauders who undermine Western societies. First that skunk Mahoney in California, now we see a Bishop in Brussels allowing Muslim "squatters" to take over churches. If they want to play hardball politics, they should kiss their tax emempt status goodbye.

[Sometimes A River]

The thing is, they are ahead of the curve in regards to third world immigration.

Of course, most of theirs are Mohammedans, which makes them doubly worse.

[mmercier]

America will take any one eye broccoli picking retard with a swinging dick that can cross the Rio Grande. No education or papers required.

[Cacique]

Too little too late. The Trojan Horse is already inside the gates. The ones that are already there will multiply like rabits and outnumber the whiteys. It does no ghood to close the barn door after the horse has bolted.

[VOA]

The Republicans should have told the Democrats they wanted to pass an
immigration program like Canada's.
Well, at least the part that dealt with folks fleeing the return of
Hong Kong to Communist China.

IIRC, those immigrants were required to bank something like $150,000 in
Canada and other proof of self-support before applicantions were reviewed.

[lsjogren]

Boy, those Europeans are fools.


They don't realize that the key to a future of economic prosperity is to allow a huge influx of unskilled, illiterate poor people into their countries.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If the Europeans stopped being so self-absorbed and started having more kids, they wouldn't have this rock-and-a-hard-place choice between culturally unsavory immigrants and economic decline.