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23.10.2010, 02:25
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23.07.2010, 13:21
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Published: 24 December, 2009, 09:57
Edited: 24 December, 2009, 22:47
On the eve of the upcoming Xmas holidays the mood of the citizens of Coccaglio in Italy is far from festive because its mayor has launched an operation, codenamed “White Christmas”, aimed at evicting illegal immigrants.
Do not mix Stalin into this story. Whatever his crimes, he was not a racist. The "While Christmas" is explicitly racist. It is aiming at getting people of color out, legal or illegal. Now, the suitable narrative will be found --- that is Europe. The Rule of Law - Human Rights, they will lecture the world. Yet, after the decent period for obligatory protests, the life will go on. And legal or illigal will have to go. It is so easy to make a perfectly legal immigrant - illigal. This is practiced here in US all the time. All the bureaucracy has to do is not process paperwork that was submitted on time, or even way before the deadline. Once they fail to act on an application, or visa extension, or whatever, the person is "out of status", and as such, cannot get driver's license renewed, cannot get all kinds of services, cannot travel by plane, or if he/she looses the current job, cannot get another one. By destroying the economy of Africa and Eastern Europe, and many other countries via IMF and other liberal-capitalist experiments, burdened by the colonial past, the wreckage has landed on Eurpean shores. Now, Europe needs to deal with it, and cannot. On one hand, small employers will not survive without inexpensive labor, but on the other, the rise in powerty and the crime is getting out of hand. Europe is simply reaping the harvest of its toil.