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Originally Posted by Osem
It's not as if these countries are keen to get shot of their gypsy minority is it.
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IMO "moderate" Roma were in the first wave of (legal) immigrants when the G8 countries were allowed to access the EU. After that initial group the chancers started to flood in. They were always here in some numbers of course. All over Europe. Crime stats from many western EU countries show their presence by the levels of petty crimes they were involved in.
Most of the "moderates" I personally know have settled and tried in some part to integrate. But not totally. Their poor schooling back home shows up in those who have no access to education in the UK. So the parents lack English skills, whilst their younger children seem to doing well. I know a few that arrived as teenagers that are in and out of prison for petty crimes as well as drugs offences. But many of the teenagers that grew up here are attending college, with 3 I know in Uni (but living at home).
A few families are very afraid of the newer arrivals. Crime appears to be their only method of this group of providing for their families (who arrived with them or remain back home) until they qualify for benefits. And if they fall on bad times, they descend upon those earning a legal income like locusts. And not just appearing and eating and drinking until sated, they also demand cash, or items they can sell for cash.
Refuse, and the violence starts. Very bad violence. I know a few who have been hospitalised. I took one to hospital myself.
They were quite well spread across this city, but have slowly gravitated together, often sniffing-out low rent areas. But another group has done the same. Kurds of all nations. And they don't get on at all. At any age.
If May uses BREXIT to allow many to stay, we will have yet another powder keg under us just waiting to be ignited.