Switzerland has started to house asylum seekers in underground bunkers on remote mountains. Credit: Ray Smith/IPS.
Switzerland has reached refugee overload and Swiss citizens are angry. Human rights activists call them “racists” (so what else is new!) for wanting to restrict movement of asylum seekers.
Some Swiss towns plan to keep asylum-seekers away from public places such as swimming pools, playing fields and libraries, in a move human rights groups say is racist.
The curbs are aimed at preventing tensions with residents, officials say.
Asylum-seekers are to be housed in special centres, mainly former army barracks, and the first one has opened in the town of Bremgarten.
Switzerland’s share of asylum-seekers is well above the European average.
Asylum laws were tightened in June.
The BBC’s Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the controversy reflects growing voter unease at the number of asylum-seekers in Switzerland – per head of population, among the highest in Europe.
Currently about 48,000 people are seeking asylum in Switzerland.
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Roman Staub, mayor of the town of Menzingen, said asylum-seekers should be banned from “sensitive areas” such as the vicinity of a school. “This is certainly a very difficult area, because here asylum-seekers could meet our schoolchildren – young girls or young boys,” he said.
In Bremgarten, a church will also be off-limits to asylum-seekers.
Human rights groups are outraged, calling the measures racist….
Say good-bye to Europe. New readers may want to peruse our previous 419 posts on Europe, here.
Photo and caption is from this article back in May.
A few minutes ago Iposted a commentfrom tomasrose to my post on ‘unaccompanied minors.’ Tomasrose told us that a few years ago one of the ‘minors’ murdered a pregnant woman who had befriended him. I went to search for that story and found this one from just a few days ago at Jihad Watch.
Barbarians (oops! asylum seekers) at the Brandenburg Gate in 2012 demanding to stay in Germany
Seems some of those lovely asylum-seeking Muslims murdered the unborn child as an Islamic ‘morality’ lesson. And this is the new Germany!
“Germany: Muslims break in to home of couple and beat unborn child to death to enforce sharia,” by Nicolai Sennels for Islam Versus Europe, August 4:
Islamists from Chechnya have severely abused a couple in the central receiving point [for asylum seekers] in the Brandenburg, Germany. Their motivation: The couple, who are refugees from Caucasus, had behaved immorally.
Ten men forced their way into the couple’s bedroom. The attackers kicked the 23-year old Zulikhan in the stomach, who thus lost her unborn child. Her husband, who was seriously injured by numerous blows, was sent to the hospital for inpatient treatment.
The ‘punishment action’ for allegedly immoral behavior occurred last week, on Friday. The 38-year-old leader of the Islamists has enforced ‘traditional values’ of Islam on several occasions in the area, according to police interrogation records.
According to FOCUS information, the man apparently belongs to the radical separatist movement “Caucasus Emirate”. The two Boston bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, were also part of this movement.
An investigator from the Federal Criminal Office told FOCUS: “The people come from the civil war, they’re so brutalised.”
Our complete archive on problems in Germany is here.
Brisbane crowds protest Kevin Rudd’s so-called PNG solution. Photo: Harrison Saragossi
Australia has a boat people problem. Too many aliens are attempting to land there with hopes of getting asylum and the new government under Kevin Rudd has a plan. We told you about it here.
See the latest on anti-Rudd protests at the Brisbane Times. (Photo is from that opinion piece)
Clearly the Marxists* don’t like the plan and so therefore all they know how to do is to call those who oppose their wide-open borders multi-culti dreamland “racists.”
Calling all Socialists and Communists—-please tell us if you have any limit to the number of people who could migrate to your country. Do you believe that countries like Australia should just open its borders to any one who wishes to come? How would the workers pay for all those needy people? What happens to Marxism when the largest numbers of asylum seekers are Muslims who don’t believe in Marxism, and they ultimately become the majority?
I’m serious (I would like to ask this girl carrying the sign) would any reader who considers himself (or herself) a Socialist please tell us if there is a limit for you—a magic number that would be too many?
* Photo: See the sign with SA at the bottom. That must be Australia’s ‘Socialist Alternative’––a Marxist organization.
For new readers, visit our Australia category where this will be our 104th post on the problems with refugees, asylum seekers and illegal aliens downunder. From my vantage point it seems that immigration is the major policy issue facing that country right now.
The Telegraphhas a detailed article on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s plan to try to stem the tide of illegal aliens arriving on Malta, and getting stuck with them, because the EU rules they must abide by are really screwy.
“Refugees” hanging around in Malta waiting for a ticket out—to the US maybe!
We told you about the plan here and here the other day. If no changes are made Malta will eventually become a Muslim country, and the US will have played a role.
The tiny island of Malta has received 17,743 mainly African migrants this decade – the equivalent, in Britain, of 2.5 million people. And it is struggling to cope, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says.
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Perched on a tiny but strategic set of islands between Europe and Africa, the Maltese have long prided themselves on their ability to repel unwanted invaders. In the 1500s, their resident Knights of St John were the heroes of Europe after seeing off the Ottoman Turks, and in the Second World War, they won the George Cross for helping Britain to keep Hitler at bay.
Their latest efforts to turn back a foreign armada, however, are unlikely to win such plaudits. Or not from the European Union, anyway, which last week was embroiled in a bitter row with Mr Muscat’s government over its plans to return Mr Abdi [a newly arrived Somali from Libya] and his ilk to Libya, from where they came in a people-smuggling boat 12 days ago.
Malta the doormat:
….the row has highlighted how Malta – and nearby Italy – is struggling to reconcile their obligations as EU states with their unsought role as the doormat for illegal migrants from Africa seeking entry to Europe.
EU rules keep them in Malta:
….few African immigrants seek to put down roots down in Malta, preferring instead to head to mainland Europe, where job prospects are better, and where they can legally go under the Schengen arrangements.
But that creates another problem. The rules insist they must return to the country where they first claimed asylum within three months, and while the majority simply overstay, every year hundreds are caught and forcibly returned to Malta from other Schengen countries.
The US to the rescue!
For new readers this is why we follow closely the controversy with illegal aliens (yes, The Telegraph calls them that in this piece) arriving on Malta—we are taking the largest share to America in a perversion of international refugee law.
Katrine Camilleri with Jesuit Refugee Services
A transfer scheme is already in place, but over the past decade other European nations have taken only 700 of Malta’s arrivals, with the US taking 1,300.
* Photo above is from this storywhere an immigration lawyer, Katrine Camilleri, (we mentioned herhere) got an award for her stellar work with the migrants arriving on Malta. This is what we want to know:
How many “refugees” has Ms. Katrine Camilleri welcomed to live in her home?
One more thing, Muscat represents the Center Left party in Malta and they are ticked-off at being labeled “xenophobes” by the immigration industry advocates.
Type ‘Malta’ into our search function for our many years of coverage of the Malta mess.
In our previous post earlier today we reported that Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has signed a plan with Papua New Guinea to take Australia’s boat people/illegal aliens off their hands. The next logical question is: ALL OF THEM?
Australian opposition leader, Tony Abbott, says that is where Rudd’s action becomes a political ploy to buy time until the next election. PNG can’t possibly take them all.
Abbott suggests reading the fine print in an article ominously entitled: Nations to get asylum call! My first thought was, uh-oh, since the US has already shown its willingness to take over one thousand mostly Muslim Africans who arrived on Malta(illegally) by boat, what is to stop the US State Department from ‘lending a hand’ to Rudd’s Labor party?
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said the so-called PNG solution was a “fake”.
He said the Prime Minister’s assertion that everyone who came to Australia by boat would now be sent to PNG was not borne out by the two-page document signed by Mr Rudd and Mr O’Neill.
“This is not a solution to our problem,” Mr Abbott said. “This is not a policy to stop the boats. This is simply a pre-election fix.This is simply something that is held together with Blu-Tack and Sellotape to last until the election.
“Mr Rudd has been misleading to the point of dishonesty.”
Shadow immigration minister Scott Morrison said PNG’s Prime Minister had made it clear that the country would not take an unlimited number of asylum seekers, despite Labor claims to the contrary.
Now this makes some sense, of course PNG doesn’t want the diseased, the criminals or the terrorists!
Mr Morrison said those found not to be refugees would become Australia’s problem, as would asylum seekers with communicable diseases, terrorism charges or a criminal background.
“The devil is always in the detail with Mr Rudd, and Mr Rudd always proves to be the devil in that detail,” Mr Morrison said.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke said every cohort of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, women and children, would be sent to PNG when Manus Island welfare standards were improved.
The article lists other countries which may get the call from Rudd, but no mention (so far!) of Obama getting a call!
Come to think of it, I wouldn’t put it past these pols to have a plan to send some to PNG and that’s where the US State Department would pick them up to resettle in your town.
****Update**** More on the growing controversy from the Voice of America. Nothing yet on the US giving a helping hand, but if you see it before I do, please let me know!
Update July 23: Jesuit Refugee Services blasts (no surprise) Rudd saying PNG too poor to handle all the needy refugees on the way.
