Greece opened its first purpose-built camp for undocumented migrants
on Sunday, a week before parliamentary elections, where illegal
immigration has emerged as a key issue.
Kontaris on Monday
described the move, which has been opposed by locals as well as rights
activists, as a “pre-election firework."
Police were to transfer
some 200 immigrants into the compound by late Sunday as residents staged
a protest against the center outside the police training school which
is adjacent to the facility.
A total of 1,200 migrants are to be
moved into the center until mid-May. Then additional centers are to open
in different parts of the country, according to the minister, who
insists that this project will solve Greece’s problem with illegal
immigration.
About 130,000 immigrants cross the country's porous
sea and land borders every year -- the vast majority via Turkey -- and
the authorities are forced to release those who are arrested because of a
lack of permanent
housing.
We in this country do not even enforce our illegal immigration policies and some would just get rid of the word illegal altogether! Instead, should Greece do what we do and have tax payers send these 'illegals' to school and pay for all healthcare. Today in Massachusetts we have a case where a judge is allowing an illegal immigrant who killed a man while driving go home to Ecuador as long as she can pay for the ticket to do so?????
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