Message in a tent

Stephen Farrugia

Nov 18th 2010, 10:16

Another write up on the Times about illegal immigrants. Two today and a few every week. Hardy ever do you hear the voice of the 94% readers opposition ( Times survey) to this situation of their new leaders who had their votes stolen in the last MEP election. Call them extreme whatever but we like them and how .....
So does the rest of Europe like them because they are taking power everywhere. Thank God.

lgalea

Mar 6th 2009, 08:54

Gone are the days when people used to take their families to Ħal Far on Sundays.
Now it's been turned into an illegal immigrats slum area.

Joseph Cauchi
You are 100% correct

Paul Smith

Mar 5th 2009, 20:40

You could stick them all in some of the 30,000 plus empty overpriced apartments that litter the island, lets face it, there is little chance of them selling as the world enters the second Great depression which in my opinion will never end.

Sandro Pace

Mar 5th 2009, 19:59

I agree with the minister on this one. The message is two-fold:

First, we cannot accomodate in normal housing whatever is thrown at us. Neither do we have space or will to build 'immigrant cities'. This is an issue of sustainability.

Secondly, whether tents or pre-fabricated containers, the message is that Malta always sees their stay here as temporary, and itself as a transit country.

Tents will not go away. They will be needed for the influx we shall witness this summer. Together with containers.

Michelle Dali

Mar 5th 2009, 16:25

I agree with the implications of housing illegal immigrants in tents i.e. sending a message to Brussels that Malta needs help with the problem. The way I see it, the biggest problem Malta has is lack of space. Malta is already heavily overpopulated and the endless, uncontrolled influx of illegal immigrants is drastically exacerbating this.

We have so little open spaces that it is a real pity that places like Hal Far have now become 'tent cities'. The other EU countries, on the other hand, are enormous compared to Malta and they have huge tracts of land which could be used to house illegal immigrants while their applications for asylum are processed.

Our representatives in Brussels should keep up the pressure with the EU to make them realise that Malta is not in a position to allow any more illegal immigrants into the country.

You would not squeeze 100 people into a lift which is designed to accomodate 13. It is dangerous and irresponsible and ultimately will cause everyone to suffocate. This is what will happen in Malta if the government continues to allow thousands of illegal immigrants to freely and illegally enter this country. This is simple common sense.

Charles Sammut

Mar 5th 2009, 15:37

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-458197/Local-outcry-Italian-luxury-hotel-immigrants.html

A large part of this new centre was burned down a couple of weeks ago. So there is a very good reason to stick to tents. Even so, some time ago a few tents did burn down.

I am sure that the minister has the safety of the immigrants themselves in mind. It is much easier to escape from a burning tent than a building. In fact many people were intoxicated by smoke in the Lampedusa fire.

Joseph Cauchi

Mar 5th 2009, 15:36

Ms. Rachel Galea,

Of course, we do not let them drown!

For the sake of argument, should we pay ransom money to hostage takers, say in Iraq?

Payment of ransom money is discouraged by the authorities that be, as this tends to increase the taking of hostages and indirectly be succumbing to the whims of the terrorists.

Therefore by the same logic, isn’t Malta succumbing to the whims of the human traffickers, when accepting the illegal immigrants to land on its shores?

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lgalea

Mar 5th 2009, 15:08

Do illegal immigrants and their NGO defenders expect them to be afforded lodgings at the 7 star Borg Al Arab hotel?

"The tent cities in Ħal Far, one an open centre and the other a detention facility, have been slammed by international humanitarian organisations and European human rights institutions."

If they don't like it they should put their money where their big mouth is and take all the illegal immigrants to their own countries.

d. borg

Mar 5th 2009, 12:04

On this one I fully agree with the Minister. What do they expect to find after entering our country illegally, a luxury hotel?

Rachel Galea

Mar 5th 2009, 12:02

The message is very clear. The condition we can offer you are nothing better than what you are leaving so do not bother coming.

Instead of slamming our facilities humanitarian organizations would do better to slam Brussels for its refusal to help in this matter. They should realise that this is what we can offer and it is not going to improve. If they do not like it then they should put their money where their mouth is and do something about it by putting pressure on those who are shunning their repsonsibilities towards their ex-colonies.

@ Mr. Cauchi
Whilst I tend to agree with your last comment, what do you sugest we do, leave them to drown in the high seas and become accomplices in murder !!

Joseph Cauchi

Mar 5th 2009, 11:33

If the Home Affairs Minister’s remark "With the tents we also sent messages" was meant as a message to Brussels, then, I applaud the Minister.

However, this message should not only be directed to Brussels, but also to all those illegal immigrants who are planning to invade our island, that their sojourn in our country won’t be in a five star super deluxe hotel!

Perhaps, this will deter some of the illegal immigrants to think twice before deciding to make the crossing and who are blatantly abusing our hospitality and perhaps also put some brakes on the criminals, who are making a fortune in this human trade!

Incidentally, aren’t we indirectly accomplices with these criminals when we allow these illegals to our shores?


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