Teach them how to fish

All the indications are that the phenomenon of illegal immigration will, in the medium to long term, cost us our culture and our country. It is enough to consider the plight of other European countries to see that multiculturalism has failed miserably.

In England, where, after the July 7 attacks carried out by "fully integrated" second generation British-born immigrants, the English are afraid to use their public transport and are routinely abused by immigrants while the authorities fail to protect them because of the fear of being labelled "racist".

In Holland people are brutally murdered for speaking out their mind in defence of their culture. In Italy, the problem of the extra communitari has reached massive proportions and people are afraid to walk the streets. Native Germans are afraid to speak out their mind for fear of the draconian political correctness of laws constantly being passed in an attempt to contain the discontent.

And remember, Malta is only the size of a small city in any of the countries I mentioned. In larger countries, the natives generally move to the suburbs when the cities are taken over by immigrants, thus enabling immigrant ghettos to be formed. However, in Malta that is not possible because there are no suburbs!

We will be overrun in a fraction of the time it has taken all the above countries to realise the plight they have been put in but by then it will be already too late. Let us not forget that in the heart of London there are police no-go areas where streets are actually being renamed in African languages!

The Maltese do not hate immigrants. Indeed their hearts go out to them in their plight but our government's priority should be the well-being of the Maltese first and foremost! The government has the mandate to protect the Maltese people not illegal immigrants, who, for the most part, as stated by Gavin Gulia on TV, are economic migrants rather than refugees! The constant efforts to depict the immigrants as "poor souls" who can no longer make a living in their own countries strikes me as disrespectful and condescending towards the Africans!

Who are we to decide that they cannot build a better society for themselves in their own countries? Who gives us the right to treat them like children? We preach about human rights and yet nobody speaks out because they are being given the most menial jobs for salaries that are way below the minimum wage.

The NGOs and pro-immigration activists like Maria Schranz use this fact to further their agenda because they say that the immigrants are doing the jobs the Maltese don't want to do! What could be a better definition of slavery? We are creating a new slave class in our country and the people who should know better are promoting it!

There have also been ideas going around about burden sharing, meaning that excess immigrants coming to Malta that we cannot host ourselves would be sent to other European countries. Can't the government see that such a policy would be suicide for us? Malta would become a hub for illegal migration into Europe! Africans should be helped but in their own countries, otherwise the problem of illegal migration will never cease!

How should Africans be helped? Surely not by sending over billions in unaccountable monetary aid so as to enable corrupt governments to purchase more weapons with which they can carry out their tribal warfare! In this regard I would urge readers to read the article in the New York Times (July 15) by Jean-Claude Shanda Tonme, an African from Cameroon who knows exactly what the problems of Africa are.

The only way to help Africa is by a well-defined process of economic restructuring where every penny being injected into the African economy is wholly accounted for as contributing to its development. If you give a man a fish he will be satisfied today but tomorrow he will be hungry again. Teach him to fish for himself and he will not hunger ever again!