Refugees relocating to Germany

Claire Busuttil

Nov 25th 2011, 19:10

bye bye...

Robert Callus

Nov 25th 2011, 17:28

Reading some comments below, it's clear there's still a lot of confusion on this issue. 2 main points

1) They are not illegal. I'm not talking political correctness here, but legal facts. If one of these people sees a police officer walking down the road, he has nothing to fear, all his documents are in place. Not only that, but if they were staying illegally, they wouldn't have been entitled for resettlement in Germany. Not even those with temporary documents waiting for eventual deportation are eligible for resettlement, let alone people staying in Malta illegally.

2) They are not Libyans. Even if Libya was safe (which up to now, isn't), they couldn't be relocated to Libya. The UNHCR has, over the years, relocated millions of refugees to their countries of ORIGIN, but not TRANSIT countries. This is one of many examples:

http://www.unhcr.org/4cceeecc6.html

These people were relocated to the Congo because they were Congolese nationals. Had they passed through Rwanda to reach the Burundi, and eventually Rwanda became safe, they couldn't be relocated to Rwanda on that basis.


Having different opinions on an issue is a healthy thing, but spreading misinformation doesn't help anyone.

Kenneth Galea

Nov 25th 2011, 14:15

And why not relocating to Libya itself????? All you authorities are doing is encouraging more would be illegal immigrants to do the crossing. This is something which the EU cannot afford due to the severe Euro crisis but the EU can afford to sponge off its legal citizens to look after these illegals who have no right to set foot on EU soil. They came from Libya which is now stable, send them back to Libya then. No more fairy tales that Gaddafi is locking them up in cages. What is the excuse now about Libya? If Libya does not cooperate the EU should withdraw funds to help the country get back to its feet. But the EU and the UNHCR are worse than Gaddafi, they seem willing to flood Europe at our expense.

Mario Micallef

Nov 25th 2011, 13:44

The more that leave the merrier!! GOOD BYE!!

Andreas Moser

Nov 25th 2011, 13:33

In return, Malta receives this German refugee: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/leaving-london-moving-to-malta/

Salvinu Buttigieg

Nov 25th 2011, 13:10

Thats fair play to the Germans , good on them, if the Germans can help us out, why can't the famous god almight mouthy British just talk and no action,surely the Brits. can take some or is it all they do is to patronize us the Maltese and then walk awaywith an excuse. Typical... thankyou Germany, you might have lost the war, but sure won the peace. Good on You.