Immigration Watch International (2): Repatriated Albanians Find New Routes Back to Britain

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Repatriated Albanians Find New Routes Back to Britain

In 2022, when thousands of Albanian migrants made headlines in Britain by crossing the Channel in small speedboats, Blerand was among them. And when British authorities cracked down and fast-tracked their return, Blerand found himself on a plane back to Albania and the tiny, remote village in the northern mountains where he grew up.

He was repatriated in September 2023. Yet when BIRN contacted Blerand, he replied: “For three months now I’m in Manchester.” He had returned to Britain, once more by speedboat.

Though numbers are significantly down on 2022, when some 12,000 Albanians crossed the sea between France and Britain by small boat, authorities and experts in Albania say the dream among young people in northern regions like Kukes and Has is far from extinguished.

For some, the fast-track repatriation procedures agreed between Albania and Britain in December 2022 are little deterrent when compared with the get-rich-quick potential of a job cultivating cannabis in Britain in what has become known in Albania as Shtepite e barit, or ‘weed houses’.

Growing cannabis is notoriously labour-intensive, requiring continuous care to prune plants and prevent them from flowering; this increases their THC concentration and the price they can command on the street.

Many Albanians who have been repatriated see little alternative but to try again in order to pay for the expenses incurred in the first failed attempt. They become victims of debt bondage, said Jahir Cahani, a local activist in Kukes.

“Some have sold the meagre property they had, their flocks [of sheep]… Others used money from loans to pay for the trip,” said local Kukes activist Jahir Cahani.

“This makes it impossible for them to leave behind the indoor cannabis facilities.”

https://balkaninsight.com/2024/02/14/repatriated-albanians-find-new-routes-back-to-britain/

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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.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Repatriated Albanians Find New Routes Back to Britain

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