That's intelligent immigration, the govt decides who gets to come in, I
really miss it, Europe has virtually no immigration control.

My city has been transformed from a nice, clean, safe place, to a crime
Disneyland.

Albanians run the pickpocket gangs
Nigerians do much of the fraud
Jamaicans run the crack gangs, and do much of the gun crime
Africans are into car crime, drugs, and much else.
E Europeans run most prostitution, sex slavery, and people smuggling, and
gun running
Turks run most heroin
Pakistanis are heavily into drug supplies
Moslems immigrants are often unemployed, un-integrated, a significant
percentage supporting Al Quaeda which operates and recruits openly.


As for benefit fraud, that's so endemic its hardly worth mentioning. But go
to any benefit office in London, and you'll find British people in the
minority.


Sure the Japanese can be a bit difficult, I know many friends who had to
jump through hoops.

But you can walk down the street without fear, there aren't gun battles
fought by Jamaican gangs, and your kids won't be sold heroin on their way to
school by a Nigerian working for the Turks, your pockets won't be picked on
the subway by Albanians gangs and your local hospital isn't full of
healthcare tourists there for free treatment.


I know you don't appreciate it when you're living there, but from here it
seems incredible.

















"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40F1586C.4070703@hotmail.com...
> Ernest Schaal wrote:
> > in article 40ED4EDB.1040303@hotmail.com, Declan Murphy at
> > declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote on 7/8/04 10:40 PM:
>
> > My guess is that the number of permanent residents is kept low so that
they
> > can have the flexibility to kick out excess immigrants if the need for
them
> > diminishes (which it probably won't). As long as you are useful, you can
> > stay. When you become a social problem, you get kicked out.
>
> I doubt it is deliberately kept low. Those who both want it and are
> eligible rarely have problems obtaining PR. The main reason for the
> relatively low PR numbers is simply because a very large proportion of
> registered foreigners simply aren't eligible or bothered. Everyone I
> know who has actually applied for it has received it (often quite
> quickly), and the two immigration officials I know say that the more
> issued the better - if only for less on-going work.
>
>
>
> -- 
> "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on"