Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Immigration Tsunami, Part 2

I wrote last month about the growing immigration crisis in Southern Europe. In the weeks since that post the emergency hasn’t abated; if anything, it has increased. Every day brings a fresh batch of news stories about illegal immigrants landing in Lampedusa, or overwhelming holding facilities in Malta, or being drowned at sea. Despite the acknowledged problem of illegal migrants, Spain is actually inviting farm laborers into the country — this during a recession, and with unemployment reaching new levels.

The material below is compiled from various articles which will appear in tonight’s news feed. It’s important to remember that this is just one day’s selection. News stories like them appear almost every day, although most of them won’t be found in the European MSM.

The EU has actually recognized that it has an illegal immigration problem, and is attempting to cope with it. The latest effort involves a European Coast Guard, which is intended to replace a previous effort which was acknowledged a failure:

The creation of a European Coastguard is one of the hypotheses the EU must take into consideration to deal with the illegal immigration emergency in the Mediterranean. The Prime Minister of Greece, Kostas Karamanlis, said this during a joint press conference with the Premier of Malta, Lawrence Gonzi, during his 2-day State visit to the island. “Frontex must be reinforced, not abandoned” said Karamanlis, in response to a question in which he was asked to comment the recent statements of mission leader Illka Laitinen, who in an interview admitted that the joint patrols have “failed”. Karamanlis underlined the importance of more cooperation between the EU member States in dealing with the immigration emergency, inviting European partners to start a discussion on the possibility to create a European Coastguard.

If the EU has designated the current situation an “emergency”, can you imagine how bad it must be?

Part of the problem is that all this immigration from Africa is actually planned; it’s just that the immigrants are jumping the queue a little bit. According to The Daily Express:
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More than 50 million African workers are to be invited to Europe in a far-reaching secretive migration deal, the Daily Express can reveal today.

A controversial taxpayer-funded “job centre” opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting “free movement of people in Africa and the EU”.

Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will “need” 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the “demographic decline” due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across Europe.

The report, by the EU statistical agency Eurostat, warns that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population.

It states: “Countries with low fertility rates could require a significant number of immigrants over the coming dec­ades if they want to maintain the existing number of people of working age.

“Having sufficient people of working age is vital for the economy and for tax revenue.” [emphasis added]

This is the crux of the matter: tax revenue. Despite all the statistical evidence indicating that immigrants absorb more tax revenues than they generate, the elites that run the system persist in the belief that the influx is economically necessary.

Their larger goal is the preservation of the system over which they preside. Those who have children surely want their offspring to partake of the same privileges that they enjoy, and perhaps someday set their hands to the same levers of power. In order to do that, the lumpen proletariat must remain a part of the system, and it matters not a whit if they are “brown” and Muslim, just so long as the power and perks continue to accrue to those at the top of the heap.

Ms Castex said: “It is urgent that member states have a calm approach to immigration. To say ‘yes’, we need immigration … it is not a new development, we must accept it.”

WE MUST ACCEPT IT.

It is pre-ordained. We do not have a choice. What has been decided is what will come to be. No voice crying in the wilderness will deflect us from the plan.

So: we (that is, native Europeans) have agreed to replace ourselves gradually with Muslim immigrants from Africa.

The news article above terms the plan “secretive” rather than “secret”, because it’s not a secret. It may not be blazoned on the front pages of the continent’s newspapers, or printed up on handbills and pasted on lampposts, but it’s not a secret. The plans are part of the public record, buried in cubic miles of the bureaucratic bumf that has emerged from all the planning sessions in Strasbourg or Brussels.

It’s EuroMed, a.k.a. the Mediterranean Union, a.k.a. the Barcelona Agreement of 1995, a.k.a. Eurabia. And if you’re a European, it’s coming to your city, town, or village, no matter how far you are from Lampedusa, or Valletta, or Gibraltar.

The impoverished indigenes of Africa have caught wind of what lies ahead, and they’re not waiting for an official invitation: they’re coming to Europe now:

51 illegal Moroccan immigrants arrived yesterday in Barcelona on an Italian passenger ship and tried to enter into Spanish territory with false documents and were arrested when they got off the ship by national police officers.

And they’re willing to take some risks getting to the promised land:

Searches are taking place along the coastline of Spain on the lookout for around 50 migrants of Moroccan origin, who (according to a survivor) were involved in a shipwreck. The survivor was found on a beach 40 kilometres north of Rabat, near to the body of a man — presumably one of the victims of the wreck. According to Moroccan security sources cited by EFE news agency, the survivor is a young man — originally from Sale (Rabat). According to his testimony, the boat had fifty people on board when it set sail from the Moroccan coast at around 11.30pm on Tuesday night.

Those numbers were in the dozens; how about hundreds?

A large boat with 260 immigrants on board was aided 40 miles south of Lampedusa by Police patrol boats. The boat, 15 meters long was pointed out by the Sirio patrol boat that had previously collected another 143 non EU citizens on three other boats. With the arrival of the last 400 migrants on the island the situation remains critical in the centre where this morning about 1500 people were hosted in a structure that has a capacity for 700 people.

Or even tens of thousands:

A total 30,000 illegal immigrants have entered Italy so far this year, the country’s Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni told the Parliament on Thursday, adding that migration has risen “exponentially”.

The Government has allocated seven million euros for the construction of new reception centres for illegal immigrants and over 109 million euros to run these centres, said Maroni (photo).

On top of these sums, the Government has earmarked 747,000 euros to handle the arrival of illegal immigrants at Italy’s borders, he said.

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Migration to Italy has risen “exponentially” from 500,000 people in 1987 to almost 3.5 million this year, Maroni noted.

He was speaking the same day that Italy’s central statistics agency ISTAT released data showing a record 3,432,651 foreigners were resident in Italy on 1 January this year, an increase of 16.8 percent over 2007.

So many immigrants are flooding into Malta that their rate of arrival exceeds the local birth rate:

The impact of immigrant arrivals on the island-state of Malta is so high that for the first time it has surpassed the birth rate. The statistics which were supplied by the Immigration Commission show that in Malta there are 40 immigrants for every square kilometre, an average that surprisingly surpasses the population density per square kilometre in Finland.

And remember: this sort of thing is happening every day, day after day, all along the Mediterranean littoral of Southern Europe.

Nothing approaching this has ever happened in peacetime during all of recorded history. No civilization has peacefully allowed itself to be supplanted by migrants.

So there’s no way foretell exactly how all of this will shake out. Still, I feel confident in making a single prediction:

This will not end well.


Hat tips: Insubria, C. Cantoni, and Steen.

5 comments:

Zenster said...

This is the crux of the matter: tax revenue. Despite all the statistical evidence indicating that immigrants absorb more tax revenues than they generate, the elites that run the system persist in the belief that the influx is economically necessary.

As any good detective will tell you about a crime that is not committed out of passion:

FOLLOW THE MONEY

While I cannot substantiate it, I believe the same sort of unenlightened self-interest is being played out by our own legislators.

Imagine the enormous influx of funds into America's Social Security system due to aliens who have appropriated some a Social Security number by way of identity theft or whatever other form of document falsification. The true amount must be astounding.

I believe it is this undocumentable revenue stream that helps to hide how America's politicians continue to rape out the Social Security system.

With the European elites, it is a very similar case. They pretend that their concerns are entirely about maintaining the quality of life for the average European while, in fact, the only quality of life they are worried about is their own.

We see this in America in the form of a political system heavily dominated by lawyers who think nothing of burdening the public with even more laws whose existence is almost exclusively dedicated to the welfare and increased income of their legal brethern. Careerist politicians game the system with the sole intent of securing their present position and any opportunity for further advancement.

Mind you, these same lawyers sit on numerous executive boards or advise companies about just how much they should commit to lobbying efforts. So, there really is a rather direct feedback loop involved in this good-old-boy legal network.

This is what is happning in Europe as well, only magnified by the monstrous apparatus of socialistic governance. So long as the immigrants continue to serve the ends of these mercenary politicians, not one thing will change.

Permit me to predict that the moment any of these craven bastards get voted out of office on the basis of their inappropriate immigration stance there will be a stampede amongst the pols to be more anti-immigration than the rest.

All through the Western world, immigration control needs to become a central voting issue. The sooner, the better.

hollysdad said...

The main problem in Europe is that virtually none of the developed with the possible exception of Britain are reproducing at levels that replace the population. So the politicians need the immigrants to keep their populations up. So you Europeans need to start punching out some kids!

Anonymous said...

"So you Europeans need to start punching out some kids!"

Yes. But it has to be done Responsibly.

Meaning that it cannot be done like the Sub-Saharan cultures propigate.

Little or no basic family structure exists. That makes for chaos and simply adds to the crisis of the "social welfare" system.

Defiant Lion said...

It isn't about tax revenue or a need for workers.Most immigrants don't speak the language and end up being given all manner of handouts paid for by the very people who are being colonised.

This invasion of our lands is part of the deliberate destruction of the west that will result in the marxist dream of a race war that will finish us off.

Marx: "Race and not class will be the defining issue that destroys the west."

People who say Europeans need to start punching out kids fail to take into account that in Britain alone, over 6 million children have been aborted. Family values have been systematically destroyed at the same time along with juedo-christian traditions and strong communities,many of which were destroyed by immigration and the dismantling of our manufacturing industry.

Baron states:

"This will not end well."

Bang on. And it is exactly what the marxists are aiming for - total chaos.

Enoch Powell's words from 40 years ring in my ears:

"Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad."

Britain - and the nations of the EU - are barking, no doubt about it.

dontdrinkthetaqiyya said...

Crap it sounds like a real-time nightmare Camp of the Saints. Beg, borrow or buy this book but first read the author's PREFACE.