Comments on: Resign, says Denis Catania

By: NGT

NGT — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:15:43 +0000

So sad but so funny. Keep it up Denis! “To place illegal immigrants in the same position as our valued tourists and the Maltese population” i.e. no money to spend therefore fewer rights.

By: Marku

Marku — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:29:05 +0000

It looks like Denis has been browsing through the dictionary and has discovered the word ‘appalling’ which, like a good boy, he promptly used in both his letters.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:31:06 +0000

If Catania lives in the US, he must be aware that in the US, the reported estimate of illegal immigrants amounts to 11 – 14 million. He must also be aware that these illegal immigrants manage to obtain jobs in all sectors of the economy, even with firms which obtain contracts from local and federal government (mainly cleaning, maintenance etc). Once employed by these companies (contracted to offer cleaning and maintenance services to the federal government) illegal immigrants have access to federal buildings, offices, airports etc. and nobody really makes a fuss about that. Illegal immigrants are also involved in the construction of public infrastructure.

The children of illegal immigrants also attend public schools free of charge, because authorities believe, and rightly so, that it is better to have a child at school rather than roaming the streets, with a high probability that the child will eventually join a gang or engage in criminal activity. Illegal immigrants have a right to be treated in any hospital in emergency cases.

So I cannot understand why this Catania from the USA is making such a fuss about Malta. I have my doubts that he actually lives in the US. In the US illegal immigration is also a current issue, but most economists believe that there is a positive element in the fact that these illegal immigrants are employed in the US. They drive down the cost of services, plus nobody is willing to do certain jobs anyway.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:45:57 +0000

No one should be surprised by the asinine warblings of Mr. Catania, since he continually persists in dispensing his misguided ‘thoughts’ daily. However, I am somewhat surprised that Dr. Busuttil dignifies these crack-pot meanderings by responding.

By: Marku

Marku — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:43:33 +0000

This fellow is so obsessed with being accepted as Maltese by the Maltese that he tries to be more Maltese than the Maltese. Anyone know of a good therapist in New York?

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:35:32 +0000

Antoine Vella: I disagree. We would have been deprived of a dose of entertainment.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:28:12 +0000

Dr Busuttil should have ignored Catania’s first letter.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:27:01 +0000

This article claims there are/were 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. You’d think that’s more than enough to keep Denis Catania busy. Instead, he hunkers down on 5,000 people in the Mediterranean instead of looking at what’s happening in his own back yard.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/21/opinion/oe-chavez21

By: L Magri

L Magri — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:06:16 +0000

Maybe this guy’s first name should start with a similar consonant with an added stroke pointing downwards.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:02:31 +0000

Jon Mallia: He is coming back to Malta, albeit temporarily. He will be at Cirkewwa to greet the great people of Gozo with a sound truck prior to running a carcade through our streets, generating more pollution and cacophony than he can manage through his missives from the US.