Immigration Watch International (2): Criminal Albanian drug gangs are taking Britain for a ride

Monday, November 7, 2022

Criminal Albanian drug gangs are taking Britain for a ride

The Mail would like to congratulate the BBC on an excellent investigation into Albanian drug syndicates which are using the migrant camps of northern France as recruiting grounds.

Its journalists found gangs offering to fund the cross-Channel passage of fellow countrymen prepared to help expand their criminal operations in the UK and pay them well once here.

The organisations are also recruiting energetically in Albania itself. The BBC visited one town where 70 per cent of the male population had left for Britain.

This paper has carried out similar investigations. But the fact the penny has finally dropped with the achingly liberal BBC that these people are not genuine refugees is hugely significant.

(Could this strange new realism have anything to do with Deborah Turness, the new BBC News chief brought in from ITV with a brief to tackle institutional Left-wing bias? Let's hope so.)

The simple truth is that vast numbers of those crossing the Channel are either economic migrants or have been enlisted directly to work in the black economy. Yet they are a large part of the reason our asylum system is on the brink of collapse.

Around a third of the 40,000 crossing from France this year were from Albania, a free democratic country hoping to join the EU. That is up from just 50 in 2020.

Labour accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of inflammatory language when she described the influx as an 'invasion'. But everyone knows what she meant.

This country has a proud record of giving sanctuary. New figures showing one in six people living in Britain was born abroad emphasise our kindness to outsiders.

But if the asylum system is to survive, a swifter mechanism must be found for distinguishing those genuinely fleeing persecution from those who are not.

We are spending £6million a day on housing asylum seekers and accommodation is running dry – hence the overcrowding at assessment centres like Manston.

Councils, including some Labour ones, are objecting to having large numbers of migrants placed in local hotels because it risks unbalancing their communities.

New Labour's open door policy and Human Rights Act have made it nigh-on impossible to deport even obviously bogus claimants. That has to change.

Whether it is sending asylum seekers to third countries for processing, or a law change which drastically cuts the time for appeals, the process must be shortened.

There's no sign of the influx abating, and pressure on the NHS, schools and other creaking public services will get even worse.

Rishi Sunak must back his Home Secretary in defying the migration lobby – however much they shriek about alleged cruelty and racism. We've been taken for a ride quite long enough.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11392463/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Criminal-Albanian-drug-gangs-taking-country-ride.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, November 7, 2022

Criminal Albanian drug gangs are taking Britain for a ride

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