EU unveils new immigration plans

[Strengthandhonour]

EU unveils new immigration plans

The European Union has announced new plans to attract skilled labour from Africa while boosting efforts to fight illegal immigration and trafficking.
Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini called for new job centres in Africa to help match supply with demand.
This year the Spanish authorities have detained about 28,000 migrants in the Canary Islands, while some 16,000 have reached Italy's Lampedusa Island.
The EU plans to allocate 40m euros (£27m) to boost job creation in Africa.
Fear of brain-drain Mr Frattini proposed establishing EU "Migration Support Teams" to help African countries manage migration.

He also announced plans to create "European Job Mobility Portals" in African countries which would provide information for local people about job opportunities in Europe. The new measures are expected to help "step up the dialogue and co-operation on migration issues with Africa", he said.

Some African officials and aid groups have warned that attracting skilled labour will cause a brain-drain in Africa.
Mr Frattini insisted his plans would not result in a shortage of educated talent in Africa.
"We can avoid the brain-drain by enhancing our assistance to the countries of origin, by promoting initiatives to have a brain circulation rather than a brain drain," he said, quoted by the AP news agency.
Last week, the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, told a conference of more than 50 African and European government ministers that they must accept high levels of cross-border migration.
Libya is a key route for thousands of African migrants seeking to cross into Europe to begin a new life.
Mr Gaddafi said resisting migration "is like rowing against the stream".
The European Commission has set up rapid reaction teams of border guards, called Frontex, to tackle the migrant influx.
The teams have already helped Spain deal with thousands of migrants trying to get to the Canary Islands.
Mr Frattini said the EU was also planning patrols off Malta.


source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6160633.stm

[IrishThirdPosition]

This makes me sick to the pit of my stomach.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by .

The European Union has announced new plans to attract skilled labour from Africa

If we forget for a second the destructive effect of atttracting yet more immigrants to Europe, this announcement also means that they are going to deprive Africa of its skilled labour.

As if Africa had a surplus of skilled labour! What a scum these eurocrats are!

while boosting efforts to fight illegal immigration and trafficking.

If the eurocrats are consequent with their line of doing things and thinking, they are very able of putting an end to illegal immigration by making it legal. Perhaps even becoming the traffickers themselves. Very likely.

[Susi]

... if they were skilled and made lots of money, why would they leave?

... the question really is... why do they emmigrate?

[Strengthandhonour]

One time I was watching some debate on tv between some Mexican work leader and a north American. The Mexican kept going on about the extreme honesty and hard work his people do and the American went "If they are so skilled why don't they stay at home and fix up their country?" I suppouse the same could be applied to this situation.

[Menydh]

I don't think that it is as much a matter if there are any skilled people in Africa or how skilled these "skilled people" are or how many are they. One can be sure that by "skilled" the eurocrats are not refering to rocket scientists.. have you ever been in contact with African Blacks? Not the ones you are used to in The Americas, for sure.

I'll never forget this White man in South Africa trying to have a pipe at his house fixed. He needed three Zulus for just one pipe and him standing right in front of them trying to direct them to do the job. With little success.

Anyway, the problem here is ethical. Africa has no excess of skilled people, much needed for any chance of development little as it may be. So, by depriving Africa of its few skilled men they aggravate Africa's problems. Of course they aggravate Europe's problems too.

[Kernunnos]

Originally Posted by Susi

... if they were skilled and made lots of money, why would they leave?

... the question really is... why do they emmigrate?

To colonize our lands and destroy us, getting our wealth, or , better, fancyng themselves to think they could carry along european civilizations after having outnumbered real europeans or after having melted with us.

[Susi]

I think the problem is with Canada... We let pretty much anyone in. ._. I think it is okay to move if you have something to offer... I mean if you were skilled in a trade or were highly intelligent (or some other kind of usefulness). But if you have nothing to offer except a burden, sorry, I don't really want you in my country...

[Menydh]

Susi, wasn't it in Canada that the terms Political Correctness and Affirmative Action were first started?

[Susi]

Not so sure, they don't teach us this in history. They just teach us when various ethnic groups could vote. Most were allowed by 1960 (I think that's the Native Americans that claim to be of a different nation anyways.. I won't get into this).

America probably has more of this stuff. Canada is just full of this shit. I say a few things about AIDS in a message group for "pagans" (read: Wiccans... ) and they go "OMG RACISM"... I didn't mention any nationalities at all. I mentioned the South African government...? That's pretty much all I can think of.

I think the main "ethnic" problem that has been in Canada since before it was even a nation is the Anglophone/Francophone problems... there was even terrorism in the 70ies (a few politicians died, I think). I believe, recently Quebec became a "nation" within Canada..

So um, brief history and cultural notes.

[Menydh]

Nah, I've checked around and the origins of political correctness are in the United States.