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WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

Apart from the threat to employment because of the economic recession (as in the case of St Microelectronics), and because of the European Union policy on privatization (as in the case of the 1,700 Shipyard workers), the Maltese people have another very big threat, the invasion by thousands of illegal immigrants. 

We say it without any hesitation that the European Union is the most to blame for the situation that our country is in, in the issue of illegal immigrants.

This is because the Union forced the Maltese Government to repeal all the reservations that it had made when in 1971 it had signed the Refugee Convention.

When negotiations on European Union membership were being held, it threatened the Maltese Government that it shall not allow our country to become a member if the Maltese Government doesn’t repeal all the reservations made in 1971 with which it could prevent the illegal immigrants from claiming to remain in our country.

The Maltese government ceded to this European Union blackmail and betrayed the national interests of the people by opening wide open our country’s doors to the invasion by thousands of illegal immigrants every year, as the European Union wanted it to do.

The Maltese Government became an accomplice with the European Union in this issue.

According to United Nations officials that visited our country last January, from March 202 till now more than 12,000 illegal immigrants came to our country, and that a little more than 2,000 were sent back to their own countries.

It is not known what exactly happened to those other thousands who were not deported or repatriated.

It appears that even the Government has exact information of how many illegal immigrants we have, both those who are closed in detention centres, as well as those who are living in towns and cities.

The situation from the aspect of security is very worrying because it is not the first time that illegal immigrants succeeded in landing without being stopped by anyone, and although they were later found, no one knows how many of them were not caught.

Lately we also had at least two occasions where illegal immigrants escaped from closed detention centres and some of them remained not found.

The European Union does not want the illegal immigrants to be kept closed in detention centres because it does not agree with the detention measure (that is they are kept in a closed place), to be used as a deterrent (to discourage the immigrants), or as a sanction (as a penalty for the breach of the law).

In our country, an illegal immigrant is kept in a closed detention centre for 18 months, is let out and placed in an open centre, and if he is not previously considered as a refugee and therefore allowed to live in the community, ad if it is not a case of a vulnerable person, such as children, pregnant women, and the sick, who are not kept for long in the detention centres,.

The European Union always makes pressure for the illegal immigrants to be set free from the detention centres within three months, or at least within six months.

The Union also wants us as far as possible to integrate the illegal immigrants into our society to live her, work here, and to raise a family here.

According to the latest information, last year 60 babies were born to illegal immigrants in Malta.

There is no doubt that this number shall increase in the coming years.

This means that the problem is constantly increasing, if we do not take measures to subdue it.

The European Union knows that the illegal immigrants do not want to come to our country because they want to live here.

The immigrants want to go to the bigger countries of Europe.

But the Union does not want us to allow them to leave from here for Europe where they wish to go.

The Union objects that we send all the illegal immigrants back to their own countries and objects that we allow them to go to Europe.

It is only ready to accept that some Union countries, if they want, offer to take some of them by implementing the voluntary burden sharing agreement.

This is no solution for the crisis that we have with illegal immigration.

As it is neither a solution the European Union Frontex agency, because its launches that patrol the Mediterranean do not turn back the immigrants from where they left, but bring them to the nearest land, Malta or Sicily.

Instead of reducing the illegal immigrants,  the Frontex patrols encouraged them to risk the sea because the immigrants know that the Frontex launches are going to collect from the middle of the sea and bring them to land.

There is only one solution that our country has to this crisis of illegal immigration.

That we again close the doors of our country to them, as had been made by the Maltese Government in 1971 when it signed the Refugee Convention, and which the European Union forced us to open wide so that it accepts that we become members in the Union.

It is required that we again make it a criminal offence that foreigners come to our country without permission.

The Maltese Government, without telling anyone, decriminalized that a foreigner be in Malta without permission (that is, did not leave it as a criminal offence), because that is what it was forced to do by the European Union.

That is why the Prime Minister is calling the illegal immigrants irregular.

It is a shocking fact that when our country is suffering an invasion by thousands of illegal immigrants, the Maltese Parliament does not feel that it is its duty to discuss this crisis.

It is required that the people push the Parliament to do its duty to defend us by, without losing any time, take the necessary measures to stop the illegal immigration to our country.

For this reason we are organizing the collection of signatures for a popular petition that appeals to the Maltese Parliament to do its duty.

While 7,000 of our Maltese brothers are unemployed and registering for work, an official press release by the Employment and Training Corporation said that 8,809 foreigners were given work permits and are working in Malta.

Among them there are 4,091 that come from European Union countries.

After we became members in the European Union the right of the free movement between the Union countries led to a few hundred Maltese to go and work in Union countries, while more than 4,000 came from Union countries to work in Malta, and take the work of the Maltese.

This shows that even in the employment sector, our country ended up worse because more foreigners came to work here than Maltese went to work in the other Union countries.

We should remember that when foreign workers take the work of Maltese workers, not only will we be causing harm to those who end up unemployed because of them, but we would be increasing the financial burden on all the people that have to make good for with their taxes that they are ordered to pay so that social services be given to the unemployed Maltese workers.

According to an official press release by the Employment and Training Corporation, last January 1,237 illegal immigrants had a permit to work (between those who are considered as refugees, those who are claiming asylum, and those that were given humanitarian protection).

These foreign immigrants are taking the bread of Maltese workers, and also in their case they are doing so on the strength of our membership in the European Union that forced us to open wide open our doors for illegal immigrants.

Prior to becoming members in the European Union, everyone in our country agreed that the small size of our country and the amount of our population did not allow that foreigners come to do work that Maltese workers can do.

The membership in the Union forced us to remove the shields with which we were protecting work for the Maltese, and because of this we ended up in this contradictory situation of allowing 8,000 foreigners to work while we have 7,000 Maltese workers looking for work.

This shown the great need to examine carefully what we are doing against our own interests because of European Union membership, and we have the guts to change this wrong road that we took.

The musical Ġensna is going to be presented again in the coming days when we remember what we had acquired 30 years ago 

– Freedom –

which we lost five years ago with membership in the Union.

At the end of the musical there is the beautiful Freedom anthem – the cornerstone of the political and social development of the Maltese people.

It is therefore fitting that the thousands who attend these musical representations unite together in singing the Freedom anthem to show how eager they are to be led again so that for yet another time our country will be redeemed, this time from the European Union foreigners’ yoke, and we retake our destiny in our own hands.

Thursday 19 March 2009

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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