They are changing America by changing the people
Your chances of being granted refugee status are minuscule according to this report (Iceland Review Online):
Roughly 6.5 percent of applications for asylum in Iceland have been accepted so far this year. A total of 128 of the 137 applications processed by the end of September were rejected,
Maybe Malta, another tiny EU country, should take a lesson.
No mention however of deportation.
Reader Charles, from Malta, has alerted us to more news on the latest African migrant boat incident we told you about last night. Turns out the migrants are not Somalis but come from various African nations and when brought ashore in Malta became violent demanding they be taken to Italy.
I don’t know who made the Somali ID mistake, but I wouldn’t put it past the illegal aliens to initially claim Somali ethnicity knowing the West is bending over backwards to accommodate Somali “refugees.”
Below are the two reports from Charles (emphasis is mine).
From the Times of Malta (yesterday):
A group of 129 migrants arrived at Marsamxett on board a patrol boat – some 24 hours after their rubber dinghy was spotting in rough seas 70 miles south of Malta yesterday.
One was referred to hospital.
The migrants – mainly men – appeared in good health as they disembarked from the deck of the patrol boat. Some were covered by blankets.
Most of them – 70, are from Gambia, 36 from Senegal, two from Nigeria, three from Sierra Leone, one from Guinea, six from Guinea-Bissau, 10 from Mali, and one from Burkina Faso.
Clearly economic migrants! Not “refugees” or “asylum seekers” escaping persecution!
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Then also from the Times of Malta yesterday, rescued Africans got violent when they were placed in detention:
A group of some 130 newly-arrived migrants caused a disturbance at Safi Detention Camp – protesting that they wanted to be sent to Italy.
Informed sources said the disturbance started when members of the group objected to being held at Safi Detention Centre.
They insisted that they wanted to be sent to Italy.
Items were thrown at Detention officers and reinforcements of the Police Rapid Intervention Unit and the AFM were called in.
Photo is from an AFP story that has the nationalities of the aliens listed as well.
For new readers, I’ll bet we have over a hundred posts on Malta over the last 6 plus years. We follow the island nation’s troubles with illegal immigration because the US State Department (egged-on by the Jesuits of Malta) has contributed to it by turning some Somalis (mostly young men!) who arrived there illegally into “refugees” and sent them to America thus creating a magnet for more illegals to attempt the journey. Click here for our Malta archive.
Addendum: Here is a story I don’t have time to post. It is about the pile-up of mostly economic migrants in Libya all hoping to get aboard one of these vessels to Europe. I wonder what Samantha Power, Hillary and Susan Rice think now about their excellent adventure in Libya—so much for the responsibility to protect!
Update October 18th: Not Somalis at all! Instead a mishmash of African economic migrants who turned violent when put in detention in Malta—read all about it here!
120 of them according to the news from the Associated Press:
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The American warship where an al-Qaida suspect was interrogated after being snatched from Libya by U.S. special forces has come to the rescue of 120 Somali migrants.
A statement Thursday from the Maltese army says it asked the USS San Antonio to intervene Wednesday because it was close to the migrants’ dinghy. The Somalis were having trouble in rough seas and high winds some 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Malta and were taken to the Mediterranean island.
Libyan terror suspect Abu Anas al-Libi, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, was captured during a military raid in Libya on Oct. 5 and questioned for a week aboard the San Antonio before being transferred to the U.S. He is due to stand trial on terror charges in New York City.
The ship is very similar to the one that came to the rescue in the newly released Somali pirate movie, “Captain Phillips,” which I had not particularly wanted to see after I read reports that some of the crew of the Maersk Alabama thought the film was inaccurate. After seeing it, I do recommend the movie for a whole host of reasons I won’t go into here. But, if you read Greenfield’s ‘Hyena Cure’ yesterday (and see the movie) you may see that Greenfield is on to something.
Regular readers know that boats are launching daily carrying illegal migrants from Africa hoping to reach the promised land—Europe. Some make it, some don’t.
We mentioned the second Mediterranean boat-sinking in just over a week, here. Now there are allegations that the boat was fired-on by Libyans.
The UN is asking for an explanation and at least Malta’s Prime Minister is trying to get some negotiations underway with Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zidan.
But, this is what I don’t get, why doesn’t the world community, with the UN leading the way, demand that the Libyan government stop these boat launchings on their side of the Mediterranean in the first place?
The UN could then use its state-of-the-art refugee camp in Jordan, Al Azraq, by safely transporting these would-be mariners to it.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (emphasis mine):
VALLETTA, Malta — Syrian survivors of the latest shipwreck involving migrants in the Mediterranean Sea claim Libya’s coast guard fired on their boat after reaching it a couple of hours out of port, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday.
The survivors of last Friday’s shipwreck have told UNHCR that the Libyans opened fire after ordering the boat to stop, damaging the hull and wounding four people, the U.N. agency’s spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said from Geneva.
“The boat took on water, and people started coming up from below, which could have contributed to the capsizing, according to witness testimony,” Fleming said. She added that the four wounded were treated by doctors among the refugees on board.
UNHCR has asked Libya for an explanation based on the survivor accounts and the fact that people with bullet wounds have been among the more than 200 people rescued and taken to Malta and Italy.
The bodies of 34 people have been recovered, but survivors have told the U.N. that 400 to 500 people were on board, meaning more than 200 could still be missing.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan denied the allegations in a press conference Sunday during a visit by Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to discuss the wave of refugees arriving by boat from Libya in Malta and Italy. He pledged an investigation.
UNHCR has expressed concern that Syrians escaping civil war are facing a perilous sea journey to reach safety in Europe.
In a related story, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah expressed his sorrow at the large number of Palestinians who were also on the doomed ship.
There has been a second fatal boat sinking in the Mediterranean as “asylum seekers” attempt to escape the lawlessness and economic decay of North Africa (and Syria!).
Just 8 days ago, hundreds perished off Lampedusa, here.
Update October 13th: Another boat sank on Friday carrying mostly Palestinians, here.
It is my observation that the number of boats carrying hundreds of migrants has increased dramatically since the highly touted Arab Spring got underway. And, one wonders why European and American powers (who cheered-on the Arab Spring and helped overthrow Gaddafi in Libya) can’t get at the source of the problem (the crime!) in Africa.
Most news accounts of the quandary faced by European countries on the receiving-end of the migrant tide, directs the responsibility to find a solution on to European citizens to “welcome” the largely economic migrants instead of getting at the root problem in Africa and stopping the boats from launching there.
It almost makes me wonder if there aren’t ‘powers that be’ in the West who want the immigrant tide to continue.
I have never seen a single word in the press I follow on the Mediterranean boat people crisis that suggests attacking the problem in Africa, except of course that the West must help financially fix Africa.
Here is the latest news. This boat carrying 250 sank in waters patrolled by Malta. No nationalities of the deceased have been mentioned yet.
From the Irish Independent:
A boat packed with an estimated 250 refugees and migrants has capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean, just a week after a similar accident off the Italian island of Lampedusa left more than 300 people dead.
At least 200 people were reported to have been thrown into the sea after the boat tipped over yesterday and corpses were reportedly floating in the water.
According to Italian media reports, at least 12 people died in the incident and 50 are still missing, among them children, but up to 200 people have been rescued.
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The capsizing happened around 60 miles south of Lampedusa, in waters where Malta has search and rescue responsibilities.
Malta immediately requested Italian assistance in going to the aid of the migrants.
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 32,000 have arrived in southern Italy and Malta this year alone, around two thirds of whom have filed requests for asylum.
In a dark mood? Read the 40-year-old prescient fictional work ‘The Camp of the Saints’ by French author Jean Raspail. Raspail got one thing wrong—the continent—his third world invaders were coming from the Indian sub-continent so their voyage was longer.