Category: Asylum seekers

Australia: Iranian, former illegal alien seeks damages for stress while in detention

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In the US, they come across our borders by land, but in Australia they come by the boatload as we have reported many times previously (see our Australia category).  They are illegal aliens seeking asylum status.  Although this article doesn’t say how this particular fellow arrived in Australia, we know he was placed in detention.

Now, however he is free and an Australian citizen yet he is seeking compensation for pain and suffering!  That’s not sitting well with real “victims” advocacy groups.

From the Herald Sun:

AN Iranian refugee who was detained after arriving in Australia has launched legal action for pain and suffering.

Siavash Mossavian, 32, spent four years and five months in detention before being released in April 2005, the Herald Sun reported.

He was granted a temporary protection visa and, later, citizenship.

But he alleges the Government breached its duty to him during his time in detention, resulting in physical, psychological and psychiatric harm.

In documents filed in the Victorian Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr Mossavian say these injuries include post-traumatic stress disorder, a major depressive disorder, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and pain and suffering.

“….they throw dirt in our faces.”

Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara said people who suffered a total disability as a result of crime were not adequately compensated, and it was ridiculous that someone should seek damages over their time in a detention centre.

“It’s a great cheek. We have a habit of pandering to these people,” he said.

“We welcome them, do the best we can by them, and they throw dirt in our faces.”

We are infidels after all.

Endnote:  Be sure to see the related story where “refugees” set fire to the detention center on Christmas Island, here.

Judicial Watch asks: How many terrorists get across southern border undetected?

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Tom Fitton President of Judicial Watch reported this past week at Big Government on a report obtained through the  Freedom of Information Act from Customs and Border Enforcement on the possible number of suspected terrorists getting into the US across our border.  Read it here.

I’ve told you I suspect some of our “humanitarian NGOs” may be helping would-be “asylum seekers” get across the border here.  And, they couldn’t possibly know who the Somalis and others from terror-sponsoring countries really are and who they are affiliated with.

The Times of Malta editorial tip-toe!

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Oh my gosh, faced with the possibility of tens of thousands of fleeing North Africans coming ashore on the Mediterranean Island country of Malta—a big problem before the “democracy” revolutions began—an editorial in the Times of Malta goes on for paragraphs about the humanitarian problems (costs etc.) before it gets to several squishy paragraphs that tip-toe around the real problem.   How do you sort out “deserving” refugees from criminals and terrorists?  You ask them!

“….the nature of certain claims could be very delicate!”

Many of those fleeing Libya are likely to be asylum seekers. But there may also be many other nationalities who are in Libya but do not want to return to their own country fearing persecution. The UNHCR says it registered over 8,000 refugees in Libya, mainly from Palestine, Sudan, Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia and Chad. However, the number might be much higher.

In such circumstances, the Office of the Refugee Commissioner in Malta needs to be sufficiently resourced [gobs of money on hand–ed] and prepared. Not only because it might once again be faced with a huge wave of asylum seekers but also because the nature of certain claims could be very delicate and would require top interviewing, credibility analysis and refugee status determination skills.

“Top interviewing!”   What on earth are you going to ask a bunch of guys in boats from Libya or Tunisia with no papers, escaping countries with no government to speak of, ‘hey, Muslim 20-year-old, any criminal record?’  How many do you think will answer in the affirmative?

Here is a good one, someone is going to have to determine if the would-be asylee or refugee has been “found guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” Or, how about “crimes against peace?”   Do we really think they will have their criminal or terrorism dossiers on the boat.   Read it, I am not making this up.

Malta’s refugee status determination legislation, which reflects international and EU requirements and practice, lays down that an applicant is excluded from being a refugee where there are serious reasons for considering s/ he has committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity, as defined in the international instruments drawn up to make provision in respect of such crimes. Moreover, exclusion could also be considered because of the commission of a serious non-political crime outside the country of refuge prior to one’s admission as a refugee or because of being found guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

So, to Maltese citizens and tourists, are your minds now at rest?   The would-be refugees will be asked if they are peaceful and have only peaceful intentions, and I guess you will have to take their word for it.

It needs to be ensured that international protection is there only for those who really deserve it. This is necessary to put people’s mind at rest, whether locals or tourists.

I’ll bet the US State Department and Ambassador Kmiec (Republican for Obama) are salivating at the prospect of scooping up more illegal aliens from Malta and resettling them in your neighborhood as they have been doing for years now!

Egyptians want to go home, but no government to take care of them

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This is one of the dozens of stories about “refugees” in North Africa at the  moment.  In this case its about Egyptians trapped in Libya or stranded in Tunisia who want to go home to Egypt.  But, guess what, there is no functioning government there thanks to American Leftists (friends of Soros) and union “leaders” who helped bring on the glorious Egyptian “democracy” revolution only a few weeks ago.

From the International Business Times:

The overwhelming flow of humanity – many of them Egyptians with no way to get home – is creating a humanitarian crisis, according to aid workers. Tunisian authorities are unable to cope with the sudden huge influx of people.

[….]

More than 20,000 Egyptians are now stranded in Tunisia, a refugee official of the United Nations told the BBC with a desperate need for food, water and shelter.

BBC reported that some Egyptian refugees were chanting: “We want to go home.”

All the people here are demonstrating because they want to go to Egypt,” an Egyptian refugee was quoted as saying. “All countries are sending aircraft to rescue their people – Turkey, Korea, India, Bangladesh – everyone is arriving and leaving except for Egyptians.”

Where is the Egyptian government?

“Where is the Egyptian government? Where is the Egyptian army? Where is the Egyptian ambassador?” one refugee at the border told AFP.

Where indeed?

A reminder to readers, two prominent US immigrant and refugee rights organizations, CASA de Maryland and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights are both up to their necks in the Egypt mess because of their involvement with the Organizer’s Forum which helped bring on the revolution in the first place.  Check out the Organizer’s Forum board, here.

David Frum gets it mostly right

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In his National Post opinion piece Frum* paints a dismal picture of what I think everyone can see—the newest refugee “crisis” coming out of the North African/Middle East turmoil.   What I was looking for, however, is any understanding that there are one-worlders (within the immigration industry) who see this crisis and chaos as a good time to advance their borderless world concept and will be using the “refugee crisis” to further destabilize European nations and as an excuse to BRING MORE REFUGEES TO THE UNITED STATES and to Frum’s home country of Canada. Islamists as well will see this as an opportunity to increase Muslim numbers in Western countries.

This is not going to be Europe’s burden (cross to bear!) alone!

Here is Frum at the National Post:

The turmoil in Arab North Africa is not only a political crisis: It could soon trigger a global migration crisis.

Already, 5,000 Tunisians have attempted to migrate to Italy since the collapse of the Ben Ali regime. The would-be migrants are being held on the Italian island of Lampedusa, while the Italian government decides what to do.

Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, has publicly worried that 300,000 Libyans might try to flee to Italy after a collapse of the Gaddafi regime. It is less than 200 miles by sea from the Libyan capital of Tripoli to Lampedusa.

Spain legalized 750,000 illegal immigrants in 2007. Unsurprisingly, that generous amnesty only summoned more illegal immigration.

The Arab and African populations are booming and there are literally millions of young men with nothing to do. (Cheerful read for a Saturday morning, isn’t it.)  But, I repeat, it will not be Europe’s problem alone.  Keep a watchful eye for the drumbeat to begin—waaahhhh! We need to bring the refugees to North America!  To Australia!   We have been hearing this cry for decades every time there is upheaval in the world.  I guarantee you it is already being discussed in the UN and in the US State Department!

The Arab world -especially the North African Arab world -is in turmoil because of the economic and political failure of Arab -and especially North African -governments.

Increasingly, the people of these societies look to migration as their solution.

Yet their solution is Europe’s problem. Voluntarily and involuntarily, Europe is now receiving 1.7 million immigrants a year -more than the United States. Europe’s immigrants come overwhelmingly from the Middle East and North Africa, and they are overwhelmingly Muslim in religion.

[…..]

These migrants do not usually arrive with the skills necessary to succeed in an advanced economy. They pool at the bottom of the labour force and often turn to crime or political extremism.

Unfortunately both for the immigrants and for the native-born, Europe’s generous welfare states offer the lowskilled an attractive alternative to work.

[…..]

Middle Eastern and North African populations are surging: Egypt is up from 20 million in 1950 to 80 million today. Two-thirds of all Arabs are under age 25. Some 80 million net new jobs are required over the next 15 years just to keep pace with the population explosion.

Read it all.  And, get ready!

*Learn more about David Frum here at wikipedia.  He has a distinguished career, however, note that most recently he helped organize that ridiculous “No Labels” political group that fizzled the day it was announced.