Illegal immigration

Frans Camilleri's "It's not detention - it's imprisonment" (February 24) provokes serious debate regarding the question of illegal immigration.

Mr Camilleri quoted me from the Moviment Graffitti forum and a reader drew my attention to this article and I felt there was a need to reply.

Illegal immigration is invasion straight and simple, as it involves an illegal entry into our national territory and the territory of the various peoples of Europe. It is an invasion complemented by those among our own people who wittingly or unwittingly support this demographic and cultural threat to our society.

What makes these people take an anti-national approach? A question that should be answered through rationality, and not through petty emotionalism and attempts at political advantage. Those willing to take political advantage out of this question should take care in doing so.

Plenty of nationalists all over Europe (and here I mean those who have their nation at heart) would support international aid to help alleviate the inferior conditions in the societies where these invaders come from; we do not want misery for anyone. This would help to quell the invasion of Europe as well, so it would kill two birds with one stone. I believe in helping different peoples but obviously not to our own disadvantage.

Illegal immigration and certain forms of immigration are a threat because native Europeans are losing territory in Europe at this very moment, with neighbourhoods turned into no-go areas for one's safety if one is European.

The situation we have here is that Malta has signed some international treaties. Treaties are not meant to be eternal, in particular when there is a fluctuating democratic society in place. International treaties that affect us negatively as a nation are to be rejected immediately.

Unfortunately, thanks to the European Union this will be made even harder due to that institution's ingrained sense of anti-nationalism or simply of anti-Europeanism, a threat to national self-determination with its centralisation of power. Is this Union truly a European one or is it a free for all where anyone can join? This is not the way to safeguard our interests as native Europeans.

Rational people must ask themselves whether this veritable invasion will result in any long-term benefit for the Europeans (including ourselves) and nothing else. Reality indicates otherwise. Let us not wait for radical times to act on this question, or a radical movement might be needed to challenge the status quo, and this is what reality is indicating.