Where’s the bit where they say they want to live in a Malta without black people, African immigrants and Muslims, but that they’re fine with pig-ignorant Maltese savages who try to lynch others?
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July 13, 2013 at 4:21pm
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Daphne,
We hear lots of people saying we are being swamped by irregular immigrants.
There are some 416,000 people in Malta. How does this compare to the number of irregulars?
If I’m not mistaken we get on average something like 1,500 a year. A number of these are absorbed by other countries.
What is the total number of irregular immigrants actually on the island at the moment?
Does anyone have the statistics?
Doesn’t matter to these people. One is too many.
Someone is speaking of 5000 still living in Malta, although an exact number is difficult to get to.
Source UNHCR Malta: http://www.unhcr.org.mt/media/com_form2content/documents/c8/a540/f40/2012FACTSHEET_webversion.pdf#toolbar=1&navpanes=0&scrollbar=1
Of course nobody complains of the 1,440,000 people who came last year in a cruise ship, compared with the 2,000 asylum seekers. Or the 60,000 students per year who come to learn English. We do have space for all of them right? But not for the asylum seekers, no, for those we don’t.
How could you come up with an “argument” as daft as this, Jo M?
@Jo M
The 1,440,000 who came in cruise ship(S) did not not come here all at once. They also came here LEGALLY. They came here with means to support themselves whilst here. They came here as TOURISTS, i.e for a couple of days, maybe a week at most.
[Daphne – The ones who come in boats from Libya also come here legally, Mifsud, as long as they apply for asylum. That is the point you miss. These are not Mexicans skipping across the US border.]
The 60,000 students you mention come here LEGALLY supposedly with means to support themselves. They too usually come here for a couple of weeks to a couple of months at most.
Having said that people DO complain about the students (typically Spanish & French though not all of them) due to vandalism and bad behaviour especially in areas like Swieqi, St Julians and Sliema.
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There are about 6000 in Malta but several of them will get a travelling document once they are out and move on mostly to Europe,
If I am not mistaken the travelling document you mention that is given to the illegal immigrants is only valid for travel in Europe and only valid for short stays subject to conditions.
I may be mistaken though I am pretty sure that they are only valid for EU travel.
If as Betty says there are 6,000 in Malta at the moment, (and I suspect this figure is higher than the true figure), then this makes it 1.4% of our population. Worrying? Perhaps ……but hardly an invasion!
By 2011Lampedusa had received 48,000 when the population is barely 5,000. In other words that island had received almost 10 times their whole population!
Lampedusa is only a small island forming part of a much bigger Italian state where the refugees naturally overflow. The same does not apply to Malta.
“fejn nixtieq li jinqasam bejn il-hafna” imma mhux il-klandestini in other words. There you have it, it’s not kullhadd.
Why add high octane fuel to the fire?
Why daft Socrates? The point is that we are making a big fuss that we don’t have space to host the asylum seekers, but we make no fuss with all the tourists that come over.
We also have a much bigger number of foreigners and expats living in Malta.
The argument that we have no space does not hold – the true reason is that we only want people to come here who can fill our pockets. We would not have a problem if we get planeloads of Russian billionaires, would we?
Not to be misinterpreted – I don’t consider myself part of this ‘we’ – although I acknowledge that I am in the minority.
Just over 6 weeks ago, on Friday 31st May, thousands of Maltese donated money live on Xarabank, in a special edition of the programme aimed at raising funds for the Mission Fund projects in Tanzania.
Although many dislike the ‘ajma jahasra’ video clips that are used in such programmes, they clearly work, and the phones never stopped ringing, resulting in an impressive haul of nearly half a million euro in under 3 hours.
I’m sure that the huge group of Maltese who donated that day and the huge group that is now spewing racist hatred are not mutually exclusive.
It is unfortunately an all-too-common hypocritical scenario here on the island – we satisfy our brainwashed conscience by picking up the phone and giving an invisible 10 euro at arm’s length, but we are comforted by the TV screen between us and the problem, and start to panic if it comes knocking at our door.
How can a Laburist see this video now and not blush.
I suppose, we have to admit that the Maltese are racists.
Tourists are passengers in transit paying for their board and lodging.
As far as the EU is concerned the refugees are here for an indefinite stay.
They are destitute with Malta begging for donations to supply them with free board, lodging and amenities to a standard imposed by the UNHCR and which most of them did not enjoy in their country of origin.
NIMBY is the name of the game according to the big guys of the EU.