Spanish authorities are rushing to double the height of a fence surrounding the north African enclave of Melilla after a dozen more immigrants were injured in a battle with police as they tried to find a way on to European soil.
The injuries followed the deaths of at least three immigrants over the past three weeks during mass attempts to storm the frontier that have ended in clashes with both Spanish police and their Moroccan counterparts on the other side of Melilla’s border. Immigrants are using ladders and what one official called “military tactics” in their increasingly desperate attempts to get through the barrier erected around what is, in effect, a land frontier between the European Union and Africa.
Two 3m-high (10ft) security fences ring the Spanish enclave, which is home to 60,000 Spaniards and lies nine miles from the Moroccan city of Nador. Melilla is, with Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves on the coast of north Africa whose sovereignty is also claimed by Morocco. The six mile-long frontier has sensor pads, movement detectors, spotlights, infrared cameras and is patrolled by the Spanish civil guard.
The migrants, who have often travelled thousands of miles through central Africa and the Sahara to get to Melilla, try to cross the frontier in groups of up to 200. “We go in a group and all jump at once. We know that some will get through, that others will be injured and others may die, but we have to get through, whatever the cost,” one told El Peri�dico newspaper.
They better learn to blow up buses in Israel if they expect sympathy from the EU.
Wow, I guess this is a statement of how NorthAmerican-centric I am, but I had never even thought about EU border jumping before.
Mexican-US, sure, but this had never even crossed my mind.
Sobering story.
Why is there not an outcry about the use of a border fence from the usual collection of moonbats? If this was the Israeli border fence the leftie barnuts would be all over it!
Nuthin to see here folks….moveon now!!!
So how do they blame George Bush for this . . there has to be linkage . .
Meanwhil down in New Orleans . . . from a LA deputy. . . the politically uncorrect truth . .
from an LA Deputy:
Subject: Deputy Sheriff’s view of New Orleans
I am a Sheriff’s Deputy who is part of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness in the New Orleans MSA.
Mayor Nagin has been speaking furiously about the lack of everything from the State and Federal Government. Here is some info:
1. There are two States here. Louisiana and the City of New Orleans/Orleans Parish. Always has been and always will be. When a State Law passes, Law Makers ALWAYS write whether Orleans Parish will allow the Law or not.
2. When the MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) meets for Disaster Planning and Equipment Purchases (6 times a year for the last 15 years), we all agree how we will spend the Federal Money as a team since we are in this together. Orleans DEMANDS they will choose how they will spend their portion.
3 . During Communication Infrastructure Planning we ALL (N.O. MSA) purchased Satellite Phones. We all pay several hundred dollars a month as a “Just In Case Measure.” Orleans said their Infrastructure was TOP NOTCH and the money would be better spent on Ford F-150 Pickup Trucks. I dunno what they bought,
but it wasn’t sat phones.
4. The looting, Rape (Newly Wedded European Woman who was raped and beaten as well as MANY others), etc. That is life in New Orleans. Why people find New Orleans a romantic, cherishable place is beyond 90% of all Louisianians. It is Hot, it Stinks, None of us even go into New Orleans without a sidearm and we prefer to leave our women at home. Rapes, thefts, and murder in New Orleans are as common as a High Speed pursuit in California.
5. When we enter New Orleans to issue an arrest warrant, the SCAT (Street Crime Arrest Team) is ALWAYS present. Me and/or other officers have been part of 18 arrests in New Orleans and been shot at 17 times. 11 o f those were with AK-47’s and 3 of those 11 had two 40-round clips taped together.
6. Even before Mayor Naggin took office the Fed’s and State were never
allowed to do anything to improve New Orleans. New Orleans ALWAYS wanted the cash to do their own improvements, their way.
7. There was no way in Hell the State was gonna make a move until New
Orleans asked for help. There was No way in Hell the Fed’s were gonna make a move until the Governor asked for help. That is Law.
8. The people looting and shooting have it better than ever. Those areas are known for people living in crappy homes without electricity. Now they have some flood water in their home. They stole guns, ammo and food. They have never had it so good and don’t want to leave.
9. The people whining the loudest about racisim are the same people who always whined about racism.
10. Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard declared martial law Monday Night. Mayor Ray Naggin didn’t w ant to alienate any refugees and allowed all this to happen. We sent officers in to help. As a report of an officer being shot and supplies and boat stolen we BEGGED Mayor Naggin to pass Martial Law. NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!! After 2 days, Our department left New Orleans to die, then Mayor Naggin decided to declare Martial Law.
In our own Parish, we have arrested several refugees. We have recovered stolen Corvettes, Escalades, Mercedes Benz, BMW’s, etc. A young black female ran over one of our officers. She was driving a Nissan with a VIN from an Oldsmobile 88 and a Plate from Alabama registered to a Ford Van. An elderly white man died because our Hospital was unable to fill his Oxygen Bottle. Refugees have stolen an EMS Generator at the Mobile Command Center. Refugees
have stolen an Energy Truck trying to restore power. Most Parishes are out
of gas at all stations and most of us cannot drive to work. All gas stations
have a 15-20 minute wait for gas. Some stations are sell ing only 2 gallons per customer. One station raised prices to $5.64 a gallon. The owner refused to lower prices, we promptly hooked him in the cuffs and dumped him in jail. There is tons more.
Mayor Nagin had years and so did his predecessors to prepare, but they
refused and they refused everyone else’s help. Now he is bitching because no one is coming and everything is falling apart.
The media is asking why was the State and Fed’s not prepared, New Orleans NEVER allowed us to hold drills. All other Parishes and Baton Rouge have drills just for this. The media is asking why no help is coming for the dead. Their Dead, we are only worried about the living. We are tying the dead to a tree or pushing them aside in an attempt to save the living.
I say, if you want out, we’ll get you out. You wanna stay, then stay. I
think we should let New Orleans die and REBUILD the National Infrastructure somewhere other than a damn Bowl.
Good posting Kate.
And let’s not forget the additional irony that the birthrate in the EU is headed through the floor.
They NEED immigrants.
Guess these just aren’t the “right kind.”
This suggests that this selectionally introduced contextual feature does not readily tolerate an important distinction in language use.
EUropeans undoubtedly have a very sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex socio-economic turmoil of the Moroccan underprivileged classes and the long term ramifications of unchecked migration that occurs without the oversight of the EU Commission on Humanitarian Plight in Brussels.
Analogously, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction does not readily tolerate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories.
/channeling TB
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Fred,
Intersting post. I have only one response:
A New American Folk Hero (in the eyes of the Moonbats)
“If you prick us, do we not bleed?”
No country lasts forever. Most existing today weren’t around two thousand years ago. I doubt any will be around in another two thousand. They are just historical circumstances. People have always moved to better themselves.
Microsft AntiSpyware beta1 picked up …
Trojan.Downloader.adMSI on my computer during a 2am auto-scan, last night.
I am sure glad to have downloaded this MS freebie from the MS downloads [security] site.
They scan me for everything every night and it’s free. How would you like to be *scanned* every night? ok, ok, it’s lame. 73 TG
Tony G.
Thank you. I found a virus and a trojan. My wife knew something was weird or sketchy with the laptop.
steve: I thought trojans were meant to prevent viruses!
(Lamer than TonyG)
THE WALL: The Israeli wall is fine. It’s only called “Apartheid” because it’s built on Paleostein land you see. This prejudges the outcome of peace negotiations unilaterally which is naughty. I sometimes wonder if it isn’t prejudging and unilateral to decide ahead of time what’s Paleostein land before the negotiations. I also (secretly) wonder why it’s an Apartheid wall and not a Land-Grabbing Jew Wall if it’s only about land but then I have a large Old Grouse and the buzzing in my head goes away.
Walls everywhere. Says so here:
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2156
Independent must have this wrong. “Stuff” like this only happens in Iraq, according to the left liberal moonbats. We demand an investigation into the Independent’s source(s). They are confusing Jerusalem with Baghdad, no? >>>
Explosion at Hamas rally kills 15 and wounds 80 Palestinians
Independent – 1 hour ago
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem. At least 15 Palestinians were feared dead and 80 wounded after a large explosion at a Hamas rally in a Gaza City refugee camp yesterday. Reports said a pick-up truck with masked …>>>> Islamist murderers killing Islamist murderers!… go for it.>>>>>
Was that last line really necessary?!?
hehe FnEh…
steve: “No country lasts forever. Most existing today weren’t around two thousand years ago.”
Except China, India and Iran. Worth considering.
Mark
Ottawa
Before I built a wall I�d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn�t love a wall,
That wants it down.
~ Robert Frost
Frost, of course, was the liberal’s poet – good as he was.
To paraphrase a piece of Stopping by the Woods on a Winter’s Eve? (as understood by a liberal
Who’s woods are these
I think I know?
They now are mine
Thanks to Kelo!
Sorry, I just did what I should have done earlier-
Frost’s poem is titled “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Saying China, India and Iran were “around” two thousand years ago is the same as saying Italy, Spain and Egypt were “around” two thousand years ago.
And just as disingenuous.
JJM: Not so and not “disingenuous”. China, India and Iran each has a continuing cultural history and unity of a type that the other countries you list do not. They have what is loosely called a “civilization”.
Mark
Ottawa
“China, India and Iran each has a continuing cultural history and unity of a type that the other countries you list do not. They have what is loosely called a ‘civilization’.”
Tosh of the highest order.
Are you really attempting to suggest that the Islamic Republic of Iran has a closer connection to the Parthian Empire than the modern Republic of Italy does to the Roman Empire?
Give me a break.
JJM
Why does one need immigrants.
a: to drive up house prices?
b: to give them affirmative action jobs your unemployed might otherwise get. Which I think has a bearing on growth rates if you can’t get a job.
c: to lower your nations productivity.
d: because they know how to drive so well.
e: because those on the family plan are 4 times as likely to be on welfare as domestic sots.
f: beacuse moving them to spain would be the same culturally as moving all the pesky spanish people to africa.
g: it makes immigration lawyers rich.
h: A lower birthrate means children inherit more and puts less pressure on the environment.
Immigration is bad and hasn’t been needed since they last built new towns 100 yrs ago.