BBC News, July 14, 2009
Canada has imposed visa requirements on travellers from Mexico and the Czech Republic after a big jump in refugee claims from these two countries.
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said there were doubts about the legitimacy of many of these claims.
Since 2007, some 3,000 Czech nationals have requested asylum, while 9,400 Mexicans applied last year.
In response, the Czech government is recalling its ambassador and is to impose visas on Canadian diplomats.
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said Canada’s action was unilateral and unfriendly, while the Mexican government said it regretted the move.
Announcing the new visa requirements, Mr Kenney said they were aimed at reducing the burden on Canada’s refugee system.
More than half the claims by Czech nationals were abandoned or withdrawn before a final decision was made, Mr Kenney said, indicating that many claimants may not be genuine refugees. Only 11% of claims by Mexicans were accepted in 2008.
“In addition to creating significant delays and spiralling new costs in our refugee programme, the sheer volume of these claims is undermining our ability to help people fleeing real persecution,” Mr Kenney said.
“All too often people who really need Canada’s protection find themselves in a long line, waiting for months and sometimes years to have their claims heard.”
‘Persecution’
The number of Mexicans applying has almost tripled since 2005 to 9,400 in 2008, accounting for a quarter of all claims received.
The Czech Republic is the second main source of refugee claims. Since Canada lifted visa requirements on Czech nationals in 2007, nearly 3,000 claims have been lodged, compared with just five in 2006.
Almost all the claimants are members of the Roma or gypsy minority, fleeing what they say is persecution in the Czech Republic where there has been a sharp rise in far-right extremism.
Canadian officials acknowledge that about 85% of claims by Czech nationals which are heard are accepted.
The Czech ambassador has been recalled to Prague for consultations and visa requirements are being imposed on Canadian diplomats.
The Czech Republic, as a member of the European Union, cannot unilaterally introduce visas for Canadian citizens as that would violate the EU’s common visa policy.
However, Mr Fischer said Prague would be pressing other EU countries to show solidarity.
The European Commission has urged Canada to rescind its decision quickly.
The Mexican government says it will be closely monitoring the implementation of the requirements to ensure the rights of Mexicans are respected.
Officials said they had been working with Canadian authorities to try to tackle fraudulent claims.
The visa requirement came into effect on 14 July but people already travelling to Canada will be able to apply for a visa on arrival until 2359 on 15 July.
Original article
(Posted on July 17, 2009)
Comments
Go conservatives, sadly not conservative enough, but it’s the best we’ll get. Secondly as a Canadian, I’ve met 100’s of immigrants (who vote conservative) who I would replace ANY day with a white bleeding heart Liberal. Harper has it figured out, this game won’t be won if it’s put as a white vs the rest. Harper is changing the immigration rules to his favor.
Believe it guys, there are many immigrants with money, education, abilities and want to assimilate AND are conservative.
Harper came extremely close to a majority government and was denied because of liberal whites.
Also in Toronto, many Conservative Non-White MP’s lost against White Liberal MP’s.
Secondly, as a side note, Christian missionaries are doing a fine job, I am shocked to see that the majority of new churches in the Toronto suburbs (area 60 white/40 non, with low crime amazing schools etc) churches with chinese/asian writing or packed with people of brown/east indian skin color.
Lastly the only thing I can say for certain, is that muslim immigration is a complete failure.
Just my 2 cents.
“The Czech ambassador (in Ottawa) has been recalled to Prague for consultations and visa requirements are being imposed on Canadian diplomats. ”
One reason the Czech government is retaliating to this degree is because Canada will no longer accept their Romas (Gypsies)their gov’t is all too willing to dump on any country foolish enough to accept them.
Unfortunately, our Canadian government was foolish enough to accept 85% of their claims at a cost of $29,000 per single refugee .
How many people in the world would qualify for refugee status in
“Almost all the claimants are members of the Roma or gypsy minority, fleeing what they say is persecution in the Czech Republic where there has been a sharp rise in far-right extremism.”
Too many people hear “Gypsy” and have a romantic vision in their heads. The reality (yes, I do know this from experience overseas) is a people who openly scorn education and consider begging and stealing the only “work” they will consent to. The gypsy population of Eastern Europe has claimed “racism” for years - like blacks here - and the locals are thrilled to be rid of them. Now they are a scourge in places like Italy and Canada - how soon can we expect the Obama administration to extend the welcome mat here, too?
My 2 cents as a Czech:
First and most important: Czech Republic cannot forbid anyone to travel anywhere.
It’s Canada, who can easily dismiss any “asylum” claims of Gypsies as unsubstantiated, because the claimant is coming from EU, therefore from a safe and democratic zone.
However, being a multicultural hypocrite, Canada doesn’t want photos of screeching and wailing Gypsy families being deported back to Europe appear in the media.
Oh, and one last thing - there are some EU coutries that do not have any restrictions on Czech and Polish people coming to live and work there, for e.g., the UK. But these states also do NOT recognize any asylum claims from the citizens of the other EU states. Either you come to work or as a tourist, or stay home. Since then, no mass immigration of Czech Gypsies.
The gypsies seem to be magnetically drawn to any area where white people still live unmolested by them. Is there any majority white nation anywhere that is not host to them?
Alternatively, is there any non-white country which they have immigrated to? I suspect any African or Asian country would have no hesistation about throwing them out on their ear.
Some pictures for Queequeg about a life with Gypsies in Czechia. Not much different from any other “ethnic” slum: Permanent noise day and night, thievery, dirt, life on a dole…
Gypsy neighborhood Chanov:http://blog.idnes.cz/blog/2323/57168/chanov1_res.jpg
Gypsy settlement in Slovakia:http://blog.idnes.cz/blog/2323/57168/DSC_0168.JPG http://blog.idnes.cz/blog/2323/57168/DSC_0252.JPG
Gypsy family:http://mm.denik.cz/6/38/romove_cikani_denik_clanek_solo.jpg
Canada is by far the biggest “sucker” nation in the world when it comes to “refugees”. Now Canada is involved in settling Burmese “refugees” here. We have nothing to do with these people and our economy is in freefall - but we are going to let thousands of them in. There is a story about it on the front page of the Saturday (July 18) Globe and Mail newspaper.
“Almost all the claimants are members of the Roma or gypsy minority, fleeing what they say is persecution in the Czech Republic where there has been a sharp rise in far-right extremism.”
Yeah, anyone to the right of Charlie Rangel there is considered a “far-right extremist”. Like the recent victory of the Hungarian “extreme-right party “Jobbik” in the European elections.” (http://tinyurl.com/nfv8a2)
As for the “Romas”, they seem to be an ethnic group (right?) who’s “culture” is almost completely criminal.
If the gypsies want another name they’ll have to find something different than Roma. Roma has already been appropriated by Romans and Romanians. I’m proud of my European heritage and find it insulting to see it diluted. I suggest the gypsies rename themselves Indians or South Asians since that is where they are from originally.
Gypsies are essentailly Sindh/Rajastani/Pujabis from antiquity, and if you want a good idea of what Canada will be like in twenty years when those Indians are firmly latched onto it, you can look at the gypsy communities.
India is a nation of gypsies dominated by a few Aryan (No the Sindh and Rajastani throwbacks that gypsies represent are not Aryan, or even Sythian or Hun) admixes at the top of the caste pyramaid.
Just take a look on the internet at the looks of Indians in India and their settlements and the looks of Gypsies in Central Europe and their settlements and you will see the link. And the link is not only in the looks, it goes much deeper.
Once the gypsies arrive in Canada, and have exhausted all of the good will (which will be in short order) how long will it be before they start screaming for reverse reparations? (Because of racism, we were forced out of (fill in the blank) country and we are not happy with Canada). Then the wheels start turning to integrate the gypsies into schools with students who can perform and we all know how well this works. Not wanting gypsies as neighbors will be considered a “hate crime”. Businesses will be forced through Canadian “Affirmative Action” to hire these dropshots. Gee, this sounds like every major city in the US.
In EW #8, the picture of the gypsy “housing project” doesn’t surprise me at all. The grounds of the housing projects in the town where I grew up were generally pretty clean and there were no TV antennas allowed outside (in the days before dish network). Whoever ran the local housing authority did so with a pretty heavy hand. However, the shotgun shacks down the street were another story. Garbage everywhere, broken down cars, the usual stuff that kills housing values in an instant.
My dad knew the head of the local housing authority back in the 1960’s (when it was a white male). A story he once told me was the following. Through a strange series of events the housing authority became the owner of a beautiful late 1800’s Victorian home. Under political pressure from the NAACP, they weren’t allowed to sell it. So they gave this house to a black family. Within a few months the windows were all broken, they painted the hardwood floors red, the plumbing was clogged, so they basically began using chamber pots and depositing it right in the garbage. The garbage men (all black) refused to pick it up. Long story short, within two years, the house was condemned and it was torn down. Move the gypsies in and see how many times something like this is repeated.
Having seen the gypsies in Europe, I don’t blame the Czechs (or anyone else) for trying to get rid of them. If you are ever visiting there and a band of gypsy children run up to your car, offer them food. They will scatter like crazy because they have been told from day one that food offered to them is poisoned. Don’t put your wallet (or Ipod, cell phone, etc) on the dashboard while looking for other things, it will be snatched. Also, in areas near gypsy settlements where gun ownership is forbidden or extremely difficult, a lot of people will keep Presa Canario’s (rare in the US, but common in Europe). These dogs aren’t quite as violent as Pit Bulls, but are very effective.
Some comments on Romani Gypsy customs. The mess you see in EW’s Chanov housing-project picture (dump below windows) comes from their custom of immediately throwing out any household object that, by their complex set of clean/dirty rules, becomes “dirty” (mahrime). For instance, if a dinner fork accidentally touches a used bar of bath soap, the fork has to be hurriedly grabbed and thrown out of the house. Therefore, a dump outside. Modern Gypsies who live in mobile homes have these homes specially constructed without kitchen sinks, to make such “accidents” less likely (they do their washes in tubs outside, separate washes for everything, lots of different tubs). Clothing has its own rules on clean/dirty: lower-body clothes can’t be washed in the same tub as upper-body clothes. If you look at the clothesline in the Slovakia photos, you can see that the pants are in a separate area from the shirts.
The interiors of those apartments would be spotless.
These rules derive from health considerations back when large families lived tightly together in small wooden wagons, and clothes and dishes were washed in the river (important to consider what was upstream from what).
Canada (especially Toronto) started taking 1000s of gypsies in the ’90s. Once in the generous, liberal New World, they started behaving exactly like gypsies do everywhere else in the world: crime, welfare dependence, and a complete lack of assimilation.
To the Czechs on this board, please understand that the Canadian people do NOT want to prevent you from coming here. Just the gypsies. As far as I’m concerned, any white Czech or Slovak is welcome here anytime. I just hope Kenney can find a way to let you IN while keeping the professional beggars and pickpockets of the “Roma” OUT. I’m sorry that your part of the world is stuck with these people — but I do NOT want you dumping them here in virtually gypsy-free North America.
Speaking of governments dumping problem populations, the one racial advantage that formerly-all-white Canada STILL has over the US is that Canada is almost entirely free of Mexicans. Thank you, Mr. Kenney, for helping to keep it that way. May you and PM Harper finally acquire a majority government — then you can REALLY behave conservatively!
“Canada Toughens Its Visa Demands.”
The entire white world is being inundated with Mexicans.
If the raggedy ne’er do wells were white, every left wing press in the world would be condemning the country they were coming from.
But is there even a remote chance the abject failure of the Mexican government to provide jobs for its lower class rabble will ever be mentioned?
Uh, uh. Only whites are held accountable, sadly from other whites who are self-hating, mind conditioned dupes who are the useful idiots of the left.
My wife is from Slovakia (family in both Czech and Slovak Republics). The gypsies are as bad, if not worse, than any minority in the US. The native populations hate them. They are dirty, begging, lazy, welfare collecting, thieving, baby producing machines. There is no redeemable value and I guarantee you the natives are happy to see them leave for greener (ie more liberal) pastures.
the one racial advantage that formerly-all-white Canada STILL has over the US is that Canada is almost entirely free of Mexicans.
My friends in Canada tell me that you guys are being over run with Paki and other black muslims…you also, I hear, have gotten your share of the wonderful, vibrant Somali black muslims to enrich your lives up there..is that all true? I’m serious, not poking fun.
Skip it’s true. We are getting every kind of people from every part of the world, and in very large numbers. Our legal immigration rate per capita is twice the legal American rate. There are some big differences between the Canadian and American contexts which leave Canada in big danger. (1) We’ve never had the strong national patriotic identity that the U.S. has. Partly because we are a British/French union, partly because we are so influenced by the much bigger U.S., and partly because we never broke from the British commonwealth. (2) We don’t have the big single source minority groups like the U.S. does with blacks and Mexicans. Americans are focused on these groups whereas Canada doesn’t have that focus. (3) We are rich with natural resources so we can let social problems grow and grow. We don’t have to live by our wits.
We are so screwed. You have so many critics of immigration, even in the mainstream, like Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan. We have nobody like them in Canada.
