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First boat of illegals reaches Balearic Islands

Oct 1, 2006, 9:36 GMT

Madrid - Illegal immigrants from North Africa have for the first time reached the coast of Spain's Balearic Islands, reports said Sunday.

Local media said Spanish coast guard officials had discovered a boat, probably originating in Algeria, used to transport migrants to the coast of Menorca but it was unclear how many migrants had been aboard.

Police in Menorca just hours after the discovery of the boat arrested three undocumented immigrants reported to have been seeking transit to Barcelona.

Analysts speculated that international traffickers may be testing a new route via Algeria over which they can smuggle illegal migrants to Spain.

© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur


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MartinaOct 2nd, 2006 - 02:54:30

The whole Europe is being invaded by people that its indigenous population do not want, but its politicians of various countries try to justify letting them in on various excuses like - 'ageing population' or 'they do jobs that nobody wants to do' etc. etc. The immigrants concerned are throwing away their passports or any other identification papers in a dishonest attempt to to gain entry to the country of their choice. This process is encouraged by criminals who make very large amounts of money from the transportation of these often desperate people. We all know this is the case . Why don't our rulers admit to the obvious and state that what is going on is fraudulent, and bypasses all the channels that the average citizen of the EEC has to adhere to. It would seem that dishonesty is rewarded by large state handouts, free housing, and many support systems that are not available to people who were born in their respective countries. This can only and has already led to great cynicism about the situation. At a time when jobs are being lost in their millions to growing economies of Asia the last thing we need is to compete with low wage Africans for the few remaining jobs in our own countries. This situation is , if allowed to continue, can only lead to an explosive situation in the future. If for instance unemployment were to increase to say, 15 or 20 percent inevitably the immigrant population would not be made to feel welcome by large numbers of the affected home born population. Yes, many of the first generation immigrants do work hard , but as we have seen with many past Caribbean and Asian people their children and grandchildren develop a subculture which distance themselves from their host societies. Even their language becomes uninteligable to the majority. Point is why make life more complicated than it already is, just to suit the politically correct minority in most of these affected countries. My home city of Leicester in England has in the space of 30 or 40 years turned from a nice place to live into something resembling a third world refugee camp. The indigenous population now constitute only about 50 percent of about 290,000 people. I say 'about' because there are probably another 20 or 30 thousand illegals that statistics never reveal. White people have and are moving out of many cities such as Leicester because they feel like strangers in their own town. Sorry, but telling me to consider someone who has dishonestly obtained a British Passport, and often a fake one, as an equal fellow citizen doesn't wear. I don't feel any brotherhood with the hoards of invaders that have transformed a pleasant area of the Midlands into a multicultural hell that if one is mobile one escapes to live with people of a similar culture and values. I know because like many, many thousands of others, I have. I pity the mainly white population of the vast council house estates, of which Leicester has many who have for years been ignored in preference to to mainly Asian influx of people who have had all kinds of help thrown at them. Nowadays, I only go back there to see the few people I know who haven't left, and we reminisce about better days when people had a common sense of purpose and a common culture. Life was far simpler and happier.
An unhappy exile, Martina.

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