May 31: The House of Commons Immigration Committee Should Learn Some Lessons From Modern Germany And From Past Disastrous Amnesties in Canada Of Fraudulent Refugee Claimants/Illegal Workers
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A House of Commons immigration committee should take some important lessons from the current planned deportation from Germany of about 200,000 Romany refugees to their home country of Kosovo. It should also draw important lessons from past Canadian disasters with amnesties of fraudulent refugee claimants/illegal workers.The committee could gain some important insights into refugee policy and future actions to be taken with illegal workers, says Immigration Watch Canada.
The 200,000 Romany (commonly known as Gypsies) arrived in Germany during the recent wars in the Balkan states. Germany took higher numbers of refugees from the Balkan states than any other European country.
The U.N. divides refugees into two groups: (1) those fleeing temporary civil conflicts and natural disasters and (2) those fleeing long-term conflicts.
The U.N. expects countries not involved in such conflicts to provide a haven for refugees. The U.N. also expects refugees fleeing temporary civil conflict or natural disasters to return to their host countries. Canada's refugee industry has almost universally opposed any return of refugee claimants, implying that all refugees should be assumed to be permanent resident claimants.
(Lesson #1: Canada's refugee industry has systematically muddied the distinction between the two kinds of refugees. It has also extended the definition of the term “refugee” to levels far beyond its original meaning.)
Since the end of the Balkan conflicts, many of the refugees who were given temporary asylum in Germany have returned to their home countries. A Bavarian spokesman has said that 90% of both Bosnian and Kosovo refugees have already gone back to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Like Canada's immigration industry, representatives from Germany's immigration industry are portraying the proposed deportation of a possible 200,000 Romany as a quasi-nazi act. They are ignoring the U.N. expectation that refugees return to their home countries after a conflict has been resolved and the fact that many refugees have willingly returned. They are comparing the planned deportation to the removal of the Romany from Germany in the World War 2 era.
(Lesson #2: Canada's refugee/immigration industry has systematically tried to intimidate all opposition with gross exaggerations whenever any efforts have been made to oppose it.)
A spokesman from the government of Bavaria, where most of the Romany have lived on social assistance since the Kosovo conflict began, stated that it is time for the Romany to return. He said that the time that the Romany spent in Germany was never intended to be permanent. Germany, he said, offered the Romany protection from the conflict. Now that the conflict is over, their refugee status has ended.
A number of Romany have complained that they want to stay and work in Germany. However, a spokesman from the Bavarian government has stated that Germany has over 5 million unemployed, and that its own unemployed have to be given first consideration.
(Lesson #3: Revolutionary and strange as it may sound to some elected officials, a country's refugee/immigration policy should serve the interests of its citizens, not those of a self-interested immigration industry and its claimants, many of whom are fraudulent.)
Ironically, with 2 million Canadians currently unemployed, a House of Commons immigration committee is already sounding as if it has decided that illegals play a necessary part in Canada's economy and that they should be given citizenship.
Immigration Watch Canada states that granting amnesty to illegals would be as foolish and unjustified a move as past Canadian amnesties.
(Lesson #4: Past Canadian amnesties to fraudulent refugee claimants and others have encouraged other fraudulent refugee claimants and visa-overstayers to come to Canada and make similar claims. Over 500,000 people have made refugee claims since 1989. A very large percentage of these people have been successful in receiving permanent resident/citizenship status in Canada and have susequently brought in relatives. Knowing the weakness of Canadian enforcement and government policy, failed claimants have often gone into hiding and/or become illegal workers.)
Immigration industries in all western countries have justified amnesties to illegals (whether refugee claimants or those overstaying visas) and mass immigration policies by saying both illegal and legal immigrants do jobs that citizens will not do.
(Lesson #5: The so-called “jobs that citizens will not do” is a serious distortion and mis-representation of what has happened to many jobs as a result of mass immigration and senseless refugee policies.)
Harvard University research has shown that immigration (both illegal and legal) has resulted in huge transfers of capital from workers to employers. An
important factor in this transfer has been the acceptance of low wages by immigrants and the subsequent driving down of wages to citizens who hold similar jobs. Citizens have consequently been unable to survive in these jobs and have been forced to abandon them. Recent arrivals have tolerated poverty and sub-standard living conditions. In many cases, these jobs have been labelled the so-called “jobs that our own citizens refuse to do”. The key point is that citizens would have stayed in those jobs if the wages had not been lowered. In other words, many citizens have been displaced from their jobs. In the U.S., low-wage earners, particularly blacks, have been consistently displaced by illegal/legal Mexican immigrants.
Calculations of both the number of illegals working in Canada and of their effect on Canadian workers have never been done. To suggest at this stage that the committee will not enforce the law against illegals is foolish. To suggest additionally that the presence of illegals has been neutral on Canadian workers is senseless, to say the least.
Immigration Watch Canada states that the House of Commons Committee currently investigating this subject has to take a careful look at past Canadian experiences as well as the experiences of other countries before it makes the extremely ill-considered moves it seems to be leaning toward. It has to get to the heart of the immigration issue.
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May 31, 2005 The House of Commons Immigration Committee Should Learn Some Lessons From Modern Germany And From Past Disastrous Amnesties in Canada Of Fraudulent Refugee Claimants/Illegal Workers
PRESS RELEASE
A House of Commons immigration committee should take some important lessons from the current planned deportation from Germany of about 200,000 Romany refugees to their home country of Kosovo. It should also draw important lessons from past Canadian disasters with amnesties of fraudulent refugee claimants/illegal workers.The committee could gain some important insights into refugee policy and future actions to be taken with illegal workers, says Immigration Watch Canada.
The 200,000 Romany (commonly known as Gypsies) arrived in Germany during the recent wars in the Balkan states. Germany took higher numbers of refugees from the Balkan states than any other European country.
The U.N. divides refugees into two groups: (1) those fleeing temporary civil conflicts and natural disasters and (2) those fleeing long-term conflicts.
The U.N. expects countries not involved in such conflicts to provide a haven for refugees. The U.N. also expects refugees fleeing temporary civil conflict or natural disasters to return to their host countries. Canada's refugee industry has almost universally opposed any return of refugee claimants, implying that all refugees should be assumed to be permanent resident claimants.
(Lesson #1: Canada's refugee industry has systematically muddied the distinction between the two kinds of refugees. It has also extended the definition of the term “refugee” to levels far beyond its original meaning.)
Since the end of the Balkan conflicts, many of the refugees who were given temporary asylum in Germany have returned to their home countries. A Bavarian spokesman has said that 90% of both Bosnian and Kosovo refugees have already gone back to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Like Canada's immigration industry, representatives from Germany's immigration industry are portraying the proposed deportation of a possible 200,000 Romany as a quasi-nazi act. They are ignoring the U.N. expectation that refugees return to their home countries after a conflict has been resolved and the fact that many refugees have willingly returned. They are comparing the planned deportation to the removal of the Romany from Germany in the World War 2 era.
(Lesson #2: Canada's refugee/immigration industry has systematically tried to intimidate all opposition with gross exaggerations whenever any efforts have been made to oppose it.)
A spokesman from the government of Bavaria, where most of the Romany have lived on social assistance since the Kosovo conflict began, stated that it is time for the Romany to return. He said that the time that the Romany spent in Germany was never intended to be permanent. Germany, he said, offered the Romany protection from the conflict. Now that the conflict is over, their refugee status has ended.
A number of Romany have complained that they want to stay and work in Germany. However, a spokesman from the Bavarian government has stated that Germany has over 5 million unemployed, and that its own unemployed have to be given first consideration.
(Lesson #3: Revolutionary and strange as it may sound to some elected officials, a country's refugee/immigration policy should serve the interests of its citizens, not those of a self-interested immigration industry and its claimants, many of whom are fraudulent.)
Ironically, with 2 million Canadians currently unemployed, a House of Commons immigration committee is already sounding as if it has decided that illegals play a necessary part in Canada's economy and that they should be given citizenship.
Immigration Watch Canada states that granting amnesty to illegals would be as foolish and unjustified a move as past Canadian amnesties.
(Lesson #4: Past Canadian amnesties to fraudulent refugee claimants and others have encouraged other fraudulent refugee claimants and visa-overstayers to come to Canada and make similar claims. Over 500,000 people have made refugee claims since 1989. A very large percentage of these people have been successful in receiving permanent resident/citizenship status in Canada and have susequently brought in relatives. Knowing the weakness of Canadian enforcement and government policy, failed claimants have often gone into hiding and/or become illegal workers.)
Immigration industries in all western countries have justified amnesties to illegals (whether refugee claimants or those overstaying visas) and mass immigration policies by saying both illegal and legal immigrants do jobs that citizens will not do.
(Lesson #5: The so-called “jobs that citizens will not do” is a serious distortion and mis-representation of what has happened to many jobs as a result of mass immigration and senseless refugee policies.)
Harvard University research has shown that immigration (both illegal and legal) has resulted in huge transfers of capital from workers to employers. An
important factor in this transfer has been the acceptance of low wages by immigrants and the subsequent driving down of wages to citizens who hold similar jobs. Citizens have consequently been unable to survive in these jobs and have been forced to abandon them. Recent arrivals have tolerated poverty and sub-standard living conditions. In many cases, these jobs have been labelled the so-called “jobs that our own citizens refuse to do”. The key point is that citizens would have stayed in those jobs if the wages had not been lowered. In other words, many citizens have been displaced from their jobs. In the U.S., low-wage earners, particularly blacks, have been consistently displaced by illegal/legal Mexican immigrants.
Calculations of both the number of illegals working in Canada and of their effect on Canadian workers have never been done. To suggest at this stage that the committee will not enforce the law against illegals is foolish. To suggest additionally that the presence of illegals has been neutral on Canadian workers is senseless, to say the least.
Immigration Watch Canada states that the House of Commons Committee currently investigating this subject has to take a careful look at past Canadian experiences as well as the experiences of other countries before it makes the extremely ill-considered moves it seems to be leaning toward. It has to get to the heart of the immigration issue.
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