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Originally Posted by Taf
This lot are not just unwanted, they are a major blight wherever they turn up. Many managed to get Czech citizenship when the country split in two... and that group have full legal rights to come here to work, unlike the Romanians who have restrictions upon them.
I have experienced their style of "integration" over here, and it quickly went from menial cleaning jobs to theft, prostitution, drug crime and general ignoring of our laws and customs. And I'm not talking about one or two persons but dozens of them!
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I think this is different. These people had an established location in Marseilles and the animosity towards them seems to have stemmed from typical migration/population issues that are the same as we have here when a newly formed immigrant group establishes a community in a certain area.
Also, the rather drastic approach they are taking is even worrying people within the government, such as the Prime Minister, who are not sympathetic to immigration but feel the government is going too far and is doing so for populist (political) reasons.
Besides, we really do not want to take lessons from France on how to deal with immigration. They do not handle it well at all,
remember the race riots a few years ago? Remember the certain politician, then interior minister, whose reaction was praised by some sectors of the French population?
Worst of all these kind of action treats these people as sub-human. If something must be done then it should be measured, free from political posturing, and done without the level of hostility shown here. After all the reaction of some people towards the Roma seriously risks us dehumanizing them. Bad things happen after that.