Number of migrants may soon increase drastically

Charles W. Sammut

Jul 22nd 2012, 09:07

This is just the human rights grievance industry gearing up. There is absolutely no excuse for even one of these illegals to remain here. Vast areas of Africa are safe and that includes most of Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. If this happens, Malta will pass breaking point by the end of the year. It seems that politicians do not have their ears to the ground or else people are afraid to tell them exactly what they think for fear of being called "racist". How foolish is that?

James Dewar

Jul 21st 2012, 22:18

Forewarned is forearmed!

Mauro debattista

Jul 21st 2012, 18:44

I think this is another report by a typical organization such as the UN to make us accept illegal immigration.

Colin Stanley

Jul 21st 2012, 17:45

Malta won the bid to host theEASO in the face of stiff competition, big deal, what advantages do we get out of it? and it says, that they recruit 40 employees, but most of them are foreigners, that makes it even easier for them to keep these immigrants here instead of moving them to another country, I suppose.

Kenneth Galea

Jul 21st 2012, 17:28

If the strong pair of hands in the ivory tower takes action immediately this will not happen. If he does not take action then the PN will end up in the sea because they will lose the general election in the tens of thousands.
I have to admit that I don't know what the PL plans to do about the issue. However what is certain according to the UK Minister for Europe who visited Malta this week is that the notorious burden sharing does not work. For far too long the citizens of Malta and the EU itself argued that this is a ridiculous proposal which encourages would be illegal immigrants to do the crossing. If Libya is not going to deal with this situation with help from Italy and Malta then the former should seriously be thinking of cutting International aid to Libya.

carlos ellul

Jul 21st 2012, 15:24

Well i guess our beloved MEPs will have a lot of rapporti to do. Thats maltese politics for you these days.

GL Calleja

Jul 21st 2012, 14:35

Why shouldn't they come to Malta. We pick them up at sea, escort them to our already overcrowded island, sometimes they also arrive on our coast undetected, and then on top of that we, house them, feed them clothe them, and then after sometime we let them integrate with the Maltese people, even though they prefer to stay living in their own culture. And now we also let them show their discontent and how fed up they are with how badly the Maltese Government and the Maltese people treat them. If it is so bad, why do they keep coming? They don't want to be here and the Maltese people don't want them here. Most people have enough sense not to go where they are not wanted or where they don't want to be, so what is the problem? But if we have to receive these people anyway, according the the EU and the UNHRC why don't we run a ferry from Libya directly to Malta and pick up these illegal immigrants ( by the way they are not irregular migrants) so they don't have to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean and spend their money by involving the Human Traffickers? This is never going to stop.

Louise Vella

Jul 21st 2012, 13:54

This report by EASO, like others by UNHCR, will have the effect of encouraging more illegal immigrants from sub Saharan Africa to take to overloaded and unseaworthy boats. Indirectly it will also lead to an increase in the number of deaths by drowning. EASO and UNHCR should find a way of re-directing the sub Saharan Africans to other countries in sub Saharan Africa. Only this week the British minister told us not to expect other EU countries to share our burden. So why should Malta and other southern European countries carry the burden of a massive influx of illegal immigrants alone? This is the question that EASO and UNHCR should be trying to answer.

John Azzopoardi

Jul 21st 2012, 13:28

This is the time when our political leaders from both sides should have a policy in place to stop the flow of illegal migrants. The vast majoirty of maltese and gozitans are against any more people coming to our little island. That is our right to demand immediate action. If our leaders are not capabie of handling this situation, they should allow a referendum to decide this issue once and for all. Malta is way to small for the current illegal migrants that are among us let alone more people. This will eventually create a security threat to our national security, culture and identity. And who are we then going to call to help us........Brussels. yea right.

omar ali

Jul 21st 2012, 12:34

there are ather 1000s caming to malta from eu colled dublin malta mast stop these caming to malta from sweden norwey germany as malta is full

omar ali

Jul 21st 2012, 12:10

there are anather new refugee caming to malta from eu called dublin transfers