Black Orchid wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 12:37 pm
Trump's new priorities for immigration are common sense initiatives which should be adopted by all western countries.
Speaking the language is a must. Why would anyone choose to live in a country where they don't even want to speak the native language? All of our forms (and surveys/polls) are available now in multiple languages so they don't even have to bother.
I am not sure what the criteria is here now but the "family reunion" visa used to allow 20 'relatives' to come in for every one person. Didn't matter if they were illiterate, non skilled or contributing/non contributing in way at all. The politicians didn't care as the taxpayers would foot the bill. It made for a nice and ridiculously false economy that we will never escape from. Maybe that has been reviewed in recent years and changed. Then again maybe not.
Fortunately, it appears that the citizens of many modern Western nations have had enough of globalism, open borders and mass Islamic migration. Ya gotta love Salvini of Italy, who -- like Orban of Hungary -- is telling the EU where it can shove its mass migration edicts.
https://www.apnews.com/3376a808df2641cf9da01476bcf7a1e9
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini led a rally of right-wing populist leaders Saturday seeking historic results in next week’s European Parliament elections in their bid to transform European politics.
Salvini, the head of Italy’s right-wing League party, has positioned himself at the forefront of a growing movement of nationalist leaders seeking to free the European Union’s 28 nations from what he called Brussels’ “illegal occupation.”
He pledged to close Europe’s borders to migrants if the League wins not just the most votes of any party in Italy, but also of Europe.
Salvini was joined by 10 other nationalist leaders, including include far-right leaders Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally party and Joerg Meuthen of the Alternative for Germany party. It was a major tour de force for the expanding movement ahead of the May 23-26 vote that will take place in all 28 EU nations.
Still, most of the tens of thousands of supporters that packed the square outside the central Duomo cathedral in Milan were there for Salvini. League flags filled the square, with a smattering of national flags from other nations.
A short distance away, some 2,000 protesters marched to protest the right-wing gathering.
In front of the Duomo, Salvini railed against unchecked migration and decried Islam, saying it mistreated women. He said Turkey would never be a part of Europe and rejected the label of extremists for the leaders with him.
“In this piazza, there are no extremists. There are no racists. There are no fascists. If anything in Italy and in Europe, the difference is between who looks ahead, between who speaks of the future ... instead of making trials of the past,” he said.
The far-right and populist leaders in Milan are making one of the strongest challenges to the European status quo in decades, united under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner.
“It is an historic moment important enough to free the continent from the illegal occupation organized by Brussels for many years,” Salvini said.
He accused European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, of “betraying Europe ... by constructing a Europe of finance and uncontrolled immigration.”
In the same story, Marine Le Pen also comments:
She said the movement was united “in our conception of cooperation in Europe, our shared desire to protect our citizens, our common refusal to see our country being subjected to the submergence of migration.
“The fundamental fight we are waging is a commitment against totalitarianism, globalization and Islamism, to which the European Union is responding, respectively, through accession and complacency,” she said.
Imagine that, citizens having the right to decide whether or not to allow Third World hordes into their country!
