Europe-related Immigration News Archives Digest
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March 29, 2008
From this: Ten years of record immigration to Britain has produced virtually no economic benefits for the country, a parliamentary inquiry has found. A House of Lords committee, which is due to report next Tuesday, will call into question Government claims that foreign workers add £6 billion each year to...
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December 05, 2006
From this: MIGRANTS hoping to settle in the UK are to be taught how to rake in state hand-outs. They will be shown how to claim benefits, demand equal rights, make full use of the NHS and get parental leave. Labour will expect immigrants to know such information as part...
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November 22, 2006
Two New York Times flavors blend into one horrific mess in "Latvia Fears New 'Occupation' by Russians but Needs the Labor". One of those flavors is one frequently discussed here: the NYT's lack of regard for national sovereignty and support for massive immigration. The other is a decades-long habit of...
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September 19, 2006
From "The PR tycoon, a private dinner and PM's meeting with Euro lobby group": Prime Minister Tony Blair held a secret meeting in the Kensington home of a City tycoon where he met a group of business people lobbying for unlimited immigration from Romania and Bulgaria. The Observer has learnt...
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September 06, 2006
From this: Australian Muslim representatives are voicing outrage at comments by the country's two top politicians, who urged immigrants from Islamic societies to fit in, learn English, treat women with respect, and shun extremism. An Islamic leader warned that the remarks could antagonize Muslims and lead to a repeat of...
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August 09, 2006
A cautionary tale: The complacency of the government towards the vast scale of immigration from Eastern Europe has been graphically exposed by Foreign Office documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. Memos from Britain's embassy in Warsaw to Foreign Office bosses in London openly mocked claims that hundreds of...
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July 31, 2006
From this: A massive rise in immigration next year could trigger a devastating crisis in Britain's schools, housing and welfare services, according to a secret Government report leaked to The Mail on Sunday. The document reveals that every Government department has been ordered to draw up multi-million-pound emergency plans after...
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July 20, 2006
This is not a joke: A plan to create rapid reaction teams of border guards to deal with European Union immigration crises has been unveiled by the European Commission. The teams would be assembled by the EU border security agency, Frontex, from lists of experts in member states... The proposals...
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June 07, 2006
From this: ...Spain offered four amnesties for illegal immigrants between 1985 and 2000. None of them slowed the flow of undocumented migrants. In February 2005, Spain tried again, announcing a grant of temporary residence to illegal aliens who could prove that they had been in the country for at least...
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November 04, 2005
The CSM promises to get to the root of the matter, but instead let's look at the only people they interviewed: ..."Frankly I am not surprised by what is happening," says Dounia Bouzar, an expert on French-born Muslims who has worked in the mostly black and North African districts on...
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November 02, 2005
Mon dieu! La France a decouvert les "wonders" de l'immigracion massive: Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence Tuesday as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said. Police in riot gear fired...
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October 03, 2005
Spain has two enclaves in Morocco: Melilla and Ceuta. That country claims they're Moroccan property, and Spain also has to contend with refugees trying to use the outposts to get onto European soil. So, they've built a 10' high double-fence around Melilla, including a wide array of sensors and even...
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September 20, 2005
The island country of Malta is somewhere between Martha's Vineyard and the Chattanooga, Tennessee metro area in size, with about 400,000 inhabitants. But, they've got a problem: Libya has said that there are 1.5 million sub-Saharan Africans on its territory and many have their sights set on Europe. Specifically,...
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September 01, 2005
The EU's "Commissioner for justice and security", Franco Frattini, wants all future EU immigrants to take an "oath of faithfulness" to the European Union. Recent immigrants to Britain already go so far as to swear allegiance to the Queen, but swearing allegiance to Brussels is even worse. Frattini says: "One...
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July 10, 2005
In the post "London subway and bus bombing open thread" I said that the mainstream bloggers and the MSM would attempt to ignore the impact that Britain's foolish, tranzi-inspired immigration policies most likely had on the bombings. However, that same day CBS Evening News had a segment on Londonistan. Now,...
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May 15, 2005
Vienna today: Austrian Muslims have expressed concerns at a modified immigration law, fearing Muslims would take the brunt of the new restrictions as they make up the majority of immigrants in the south-central European country... According to estimates, there are some 750,000 immigrants in Austria, representing 10 percent of the...
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March 08, 2005
Beeb: Of 62,700 people refused asylum last year, 4,100 had so far been removed, Home Office minister Des Browne said in a Commons reply. Others could have left without informing the authorities, he added... [Tory MP Sir Teddy Taylor] estimated there were "probably 250,000" people living in Britain who had...
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February 23, 2005
AMSTERDAM — Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is moving to deport three Muslim clerics because of accusations they represent a threat to public order and national security. The three imams will be declared undesirable aliens and two of them will have their residence permits cancelled, the first such action has been...
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February 09, 2005
EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - Madrid's decision to grant an amnesty to illegal immigrants living and working in the country is set to have consequences well beyond Spain. The amnesty, which is likely to affect up to one million immigrants, began on Monday (7 February). Over the coming three months, Madrid will accept...
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February 07, 2005
From this: Tony Blair will try today to recapture ground lost to the Tories on immigration by announcing plans to turn away people who do not bring economic benefits or professional skills to the country. The Prime Minister and Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will announce the tough new tests...
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February 04, 2005
From this: Cals College in IJsselstein has prohibited two of it's students to have Dutch flags on their bags. The 16 year old boy and his friend where told by the director of their school that they "urgently should consider" to remove the Dutch flags from their bags, it could...
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Spectator UK: ...Holland is the country where everything is allowed, where everything is tolerated, from dope in the coffee houses, to fat-thighed whores baying for your money in frowzy shop windows, to imams suggesting that it's OK to beat up women every now and then. The Dutch model seemed to...
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October 04, 2004
From this: Immigration will add six million to Britain's population over the next three decades, according to new figures. The estimate, by the think tank Migrationwatch UK, is based on the latest forecasts from the Government Actuary's Department (GAD). They appear to confirm claims made by Migrationwatch two years ago,...
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September 26, 2004
BBC: Swiss voters have rejected plans to relax the country's strict naturalisation laws... The government had said it wanted to make procedures easier, saying too many people were left out of the country's system of direct democracy... Early polls indicate that the majority of voters were against a plan to...
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September 22, 2004
Let's start at the end and work towards the headline with this one: "Most of the people on the team are there to get a positive experience and to play soccer," Bruun-Hanssen said. "Now Djerv has to present its view of the case, and then we have to evaluate possible...
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September 21, 2004
I don't entirely trust this site or the translation, but here are some articles about how part or all of Sweden's third-largest city (Malmo) has apparently descended into a multiculturalist's paradise. For example, this one from the Afton Bladet (Swedish version here): Malmø, Sweden. The police now publicly admit what...
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September 09, 2004
News from the frozen north: TORONTO - A Sri Lankan gangster caught in Toronto with an AK-47 assault rifle and sawed-off shotgun that police believe were meant for a murder has won the right to stay in Canada after a refugee judge ruled the man's family would suffer if he...
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July 05, 2004
From al-Guardian: Almost 2 million French citizens are living in newly created urban ghettos in an environment characterised by anti-French feeling, racial hatred and the oppression of women, according to a French intelligence agency report leaked yesterday. The report, parts of which were published in Le Monde, concluded that approximately...
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March 29, 2004
That's a quote from the WSJ. Yes, the same WSJ that calls those who don't support Open Borders "nativists." See 'New Breed of Islamic Warrior Is Emerging' for the full article. Excerpt: Immigration is a key way to extend the radical ideas into Western Europe. One Takfiri scholar, Abu Basir,...
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November 07, 2002
The article "The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" details some of the problems the French are having with unchecked immigration by a largely hostile foreign population. I'm sure that the French leaders who invited such mass immigration in the first place have a solution, right? The same author has...
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