The UK is stirring a hornet’s nest: no assimilation=no welfare

This will be fun to watch, a proposal is being put forth in Great Britain to kick out immigrants who don’t learn English and participate in British society.   Hat tip:  Counter Jihad blog.

From the Daily Mail on Saturday:

A highly controversial crackdown on immigrants accused of abusing welfare handouts is to be unveiled by Home Secretary Alan Johnson this week.

He plans to ban wives brought here, mainly from India and Pakistan, from receiving child benefit and a wide range of other state aid unless they learn English, support British values and do voluntary work in the community.

The move could affect up to 80,000 immigrants who are allowed to settle permanently in Britain each year after marrying a UK citizen.

Many come from remote villages in the subcontinent, have little formal education and cannot speak a word of English. Under existing laws, they are automatically given indefinite leave to remain after just two years.

Crucially, that qualifies them to receive state benefits, even if they never become British citizens with UK passports or learn English.

However, Mr Johnson wants to scrap indefinite leave to remain. He intends to force immigrants who use marriage to get into the UK to take a citizenship test. They will not be allowed to take it for at least five years and if they fail, they will be banned from receiving benefits.

Read on.  We will be watching how this plays out!

Another immigrant scam—Romanians this time!

I’m telling you, I really should do a blog just on immigrant scams—-there are so many and they are so varied in their creativity, the topic would make for a great blog.  This one comes from our neighboring county, Frederick Co. Maryland, although the scammers were nabbed in Oklahoma. I know, off topic, but too good to resist posting.

Two men of Romanian descent [gypsies?  here in America?] have been charged with stealing money by tampering with an ATM operated by PNC Bank on Thomas Johnson Drive, according to Frederick police.

The men, Mihai Ittu, 40, and Stefan Iancu, 31, are believed to be part of a theft ring in several states across the country that stole more than $40,000, said Lt. Shawn Martyak, commander of the department’s Criminal Investigation Division. The other states involved are California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oklahoma.

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Ittu and Iancu were arrested somewhere around Oklahoma City late last week, Martyak said. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities contacted Detective William Forder in Frederick.

Here is how they stole peoples’ account information:

He said thieves stole money with a skimming device and camera. The skimmer caught the magnetic strip on the card itself. A small video camera placed around the ATM linked the PIN number to a magnetic strip.

Their immigration status is unknown, but check this out, they will beg to be deported back to Romania where the stolen money will be waiting!

ICE will determine Ittu’s and Iancu’s immigration status.

Although Martyak did not know whether the suspects are in the U.S. illegally, some Romanians are entering the country illegally and wiring stolen money back home, he said.

“If they get caught, they beg to be deported so they go back to Romania and have all their money there,” Martyak said. “It’s not terrorist in the sense of al-Qaida, but it certainly catches your eye when people get hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars. What are they doing with this money?”

Note to the race baiters at America’s Voice and their media lackeys at Immigration Daily, these are white Europeans local police are detaining and ICE is questioning—not “brown-skinned” illegals.

See our “crimes” category, here, for more immigrant scams.

Romanians attacked in Northern Ireland, a rise in ethnic nationalism?

Attacks on about 100 families of Romanians in Belfast, No. Ireland appears to be motivated by anger at foreigners and frustration at a declining economic climate in a country that was booming in recent years.   But, I have to say, after scanning several articles I still don’t have a good handle on what is going on.  I wanted to know how the Romanians came to be in Ireland in the first place. 

Finally this article in the Irish Times last Thursday gave me a few useful bits of information.

The Roma people have been a feature of Belfast city life in the past two years. Many of them sell the Belfast Telegraph on the streets. Other are involved in car washing, some sell the Big Issues , others simply beg.

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The attacks began last Wednesday, apparently spontaneously without any motivation apart from racism, and continued in the following days.

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The overwhelming majority of the families did not speak English, so Maria Fechete, who has made an effort to learn the language in recent months, was delegated to speak on their behalf.

The families “want to go home” to Romania, she said. “I haven’t slept in a week,” she added.

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He [a friend of the Romanians] said the family told him they came to Northern Ireland out of desperation because there was no work in Romania. He wondered whether they were having second thoughts about their decision.

If anger against foreigners (fellow Europeans no less) is building in Ireland I wonder how they are taking the African, Middle Eastern and Rohingya refugees settling there.

Here is a link to another article about the Romanians.

Iraqi asylum-seekers continue to be deported from Denmark

Note to readers:  My computer is up and running again this morning (for  now!)—I’m sorry to disappoint commenter “M” (here).

I’ve got a bunch of stuff to catch up on and this is one from the Copenhagen Post:

Five Iraqis refused asylum will be held in custody until they are returned to their homeland

Below is the whole short article.  I thought it was interesting to see that Iraq must decide who they are willing to take back.  I wish I knew for what reasons some would be rejected.

Five Iraqis refugees due to be deported have been taken into custody by police on the grounds that they have not complied with asylum centre requirements, reports TV2 News.

Hans Viggo Jensen, a spokesperson for the National Police, said the five will be held in custody until their return to Iraq.

According to Jensen the five are part of a group of 25 whose cases have been reviewed by the Iraqi authorities. Of those, 15 were accepted and those refugees will now be sent back to Iraq. He added the other 10 cases were given a temporary denial, meaning they have to be examined further before a final decision is made.

In all, around 250 Iraqi refugees are slated to be deported. Jensen said documentation for 100 of those has already been sent on to the Iraqi authorities.

Around 70 of the Iraqis refused asylum are being sheltered at Brorson’s Church in Copenhagen.

I guess Denmark has been a bit skittish about Iraqi refugees after discovering in 2008 that three interpreters given asylum turned out to be spies.  See Judy’s post of last year, here.