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| EvilTree |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4321390.stm
| quote: | UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is "deeply concerned" about the plight of African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spain.
He urged the Spanish and Moroccan governments to deal with the situation humanely, his spokesman said.
His comments come after six migrants died trying to scale a fence to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
The EU and the UN are sending teams to Morocco, amid growing criticism of how the authorities are treating migrants.
"The secretary-general is deeply concerned about the very serious situation of migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spain through the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla," a spokesman for Mr Annan said in a statement.
Mr Annan "believes these regrettable events in this one region of the world point to a wider problem in dealing with the inevitable and necessary flow of people across borders", the statement added.
Expulsions
The aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres, said on Friday that it had found more than 500 migrants abandoned by Moroccan police in the Sahara desert without food or water, some of whom had been illegally expelled by Spanish police.
Human rights groups have also criticised Spain's decision to resume the deportation to Morocco of migrants who had already reached Spanish territory.
At least 70 migrants were expelled from Melilla, in the first set of official expulsions expected under a revived 1992 accord between Spain and Morocco.
It allows illegal entrants to be sent back to Morocco, even if they are of different nationalities.
Until now, migrants who successfully entered the enclaves have been housed in holding centres or sent to mainland Spain to await expulsion to their country of origin, often resulting in their release. |
Boohoo. My heart bleeds.
No sympathy for illegal immigrants. War refugees, another matter.
Just because your life sucks, that does not give you a right to try to leech off other people. |
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| Transmotion |
| they are just trying to make some money. |
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| Cal |
| quote: | | six migrants died trying to scale a fence |
Who the hell dies scaling a fence |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Transmotion
they are just trying to make some money. |
...by breaking the law.
Say, isn't there a word for that? |
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| Transmotion |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
...by breaking the law.
Say, isn't there a word for that? |
Don't judge people that you don't know,every human being got the right to live good. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Transmotion
every human being got the right to live good. |
No, every human being has the right to work toward making themselves a better life. There's no such thing as the "right to a good life".
I'm sympathetic to those who are living in a ty environment with no simple way out, but if every country let all those people in then every country would end up being just as ty. Immigration laws exist for a reason, and crime is crime no matter what the motivation for committing it is. |
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| Transmotion |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
No, every human being has the right to work toward making themselves a better life. There's no such thing as the "right to a good life".
I'm sympathetic to those who are living in a ty environment with no simple way out, but if every country let all those people in then every country would end up being just as ty. Immigration laws exist for a reason, and crime is crime no matter what the motivation for committing it is. |
well,you got a point but i will not judge those people,they've made their decision when they crossed the border |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
Just because your life sucks, that does not give you a right to try to leech off other people. |
Someone want to mention that to the welfare (slugs) cases in our own country?
A country has a right to protect their own borders.
Proper immigration is one thing, illegal immigration is something else. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| Who was it that said that here in Canada, we have a defence against the homeless - it's called "winter." |
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