Posted on 08/10/2013 7:33:55 AM PDT by klpt
Russia's immigration issues would be familiar to Americans: Millions of impoverished migrants have come and found low-wage jobs. Some are in Russia illegally and are exploited by their employers. And a growing number of Russians fear this influx of migrants, many of whom are Muslim, is changing the face of the country.
At 3:30 on a recent morning, the train from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, pulls into Moscow after a four-day journey. The passengers hauling their bags out onto the damp, ill-lit platform are mostly men. Russian police eye the new arrivals with suspicion. Every day, trains and planes arrive from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Belarus and other former Soviet republics, filled with migrants looking for what they can't find at home: steady work.
They are not always welcome.
Sergey Sobyanin, Moscow's mayor, says the capital is a Russian city — not Chinese, Tajik or Uzbek — and it should stay that way. He is campaigning for re-election this fall, with a promise to limit the influx of foreign workers.
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Re: Second photo - the extent of the mind control is shocking.
I don’t blame the Russians, as I don’t like the idea of third world garbage marauding around my country either. From criminal behavior to pestilence and disease, the illegal alien is also a burden on the taxpayer.
Arrest and deport.
O you folks are making my ribs hurt from laughing so hard. I loved it. Can’t believe how low our country has gone that we are siding with Putin.
Neither Putin nor the Russian people are INFECTED with the disease of political correctness. Unfortunately, that disease is otherwise endemic in the Western World.
the difference between our illegals and theirs is that our illegals dont go in the middle of the street, stop everything and take out their rugs, animals all of them
Wow...these pictures capture humanity vacated of their souls. What a mass of devil-servers.
We just had a foreign student stay with us for a few weeks, a Muslim born in Azerbaijan, growing up in St. Petersburg. She gave us the impression that the unwillingness to interact with each other is from both sides. The Russians may not want to talk to the Azeris, but the Azeris aren’t going out of their way to mingle with Russians, either. She said there are some streets in St. Petersburg that were full of dangerous Muslims from the Caucasus region, a lot like the Tsarnaev boys from the Boston Marathon attack, and she would not go there. Her outlook was different, though. She did not observe Ramadan while here, for example. She also said she has always talked to everybody, and made friends of different backgrounds easily. She was serious about her education, about to start at the Banking University in St. Petersburgm majoring in international banking.
So, there you are. The barriers are real, but not everybody is interested in maintaining them. There seem to be at least some immigrants that just want to get along and move up, like many immigrants to America.
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