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Illegal Immigrants and the Economy
How does the economy depend on illegal immigrants and what problems does this cause?
We already started to discuss this topic on the second TIE project meeting in Gorzów and here we can continue. For further information about the problematic I uploaded a pdf-file to the migration section, you can view it directly here.
What is your opinion on this topic and what can we do?
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Here I found a video of the Financial Times which states that less people from Africa are trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean sea because of the financial crisis and better co-operating coast guards.
http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/04/ft-video-is-europe-still-the-pr...
As I understood it, not only the illegal immigrants are treated in an unfair way, but also the legal ones. It is not explained if the local youth shot two legal or illegal immigrants. Of course both is an horrible accident which must not happen again. But isn´t it unacceptable that even legal immigrant have to live and work under such bad circumstances ("jammed together in small barracks and sleep on cardboards and old mattresses")? They must ask themselves why they payed for their citizenship when they are treated in the same way as illegal immigrants are.
This might lead to new problems, or to be precise, to an increase of the number of illegal immigrants.
I know it is difficult to give legal immigrants a human place to live. But the procedure of doing so should be improved as qick as possible to avoid further illegal immigration.
I know this was not really the point of the proper discussion but I thought it would be nice to think about..
Greets,
Sonja
Roberto Maroni, the Italian interior minister, is right. If Italy directly sent them back, there couldn't be tensions between Italians and these illegal immigrants. Now, the Italian government have to support them and there are tensions between the immigrants and local inhabitants.
But because these countries didn't do this, we have to understand that these illegal immigrants are here and that we have to know that it's very hard (read: impossible) to put those 36000 people on a boat back to Africa.
We know that the economics of different countries depend on illegal immigrants, but we have no data of this. Countries can estimate how many illegals are living in a country, but that's all. I think it's impossible to calculate in which way our economics are depending on illegal immigrants.
I read the pdf file and I saw 2 discussed points.
''- in January two immigrants were shot by local youths''
Some media said it were youths, others told it was the police who shot them. That could be a big difference; was it racism of the youths or criminality of illegal immigrants?
''as a result some 2,000 immigrants demonstrated for their rights''
Well if that's right, the immigrants had a very special style of demonstrating; they attacked local inhabitants, threwed stones to the police and ruined windows of local shops.
I read that this topic also will be discussed in Kybartai.