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Title: Hungarian Gypsies flocking to Canada
Source:
UPI
URL Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N ... -23241319741127/#ixzz1c3X87fKb
Published: Oct 27, 2011
Author: United Press International
Post Date: 2011-10-29 22:16:55 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 183
Comments: 4
TORONTO, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Canadian immigration authorities say an unprecedented number of gypsies from Hungary are seeking refugee status on arrival in Toronto. Canada Border Services Agency workers were overwhelmed one night last week when a record 110 gypsies arrived on one flight and extra staff had to be called in to process them, the Toronto Sun reported. The agency said as many as 50 gypsies from Hungary show up and apply for refugee status each day. In recent years, the stateless ethnic group has denounced the term gypsy as derogatory and adopted the name Roma. Gina Csanyi-Roban, executive director of the Roma Community Center, told the Sun city shelters are full and efforts were under way to find housing for the newcomers. She said the problem wasn't with the city, but with the federal authorities. "The Canadian government has been silent on the issue," she said. All of the refugee status-seekers have alleged they have been targeted in Europe by neo-Nazis, or skinheads, the report said. Unidentified border officials told the Sun many of the elderly gypsies have health problems that will likely place an increasing burden on the country's free medicare system. Poster Comment: The cousins of the Red Sea pedestrians just discovered a new frontier ripe for the picking...err, plundering.
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#3. To: X-15 (#0)
You mean swarthy women in tight fitting peasant dresses dancing and playing tambourines doesn't float your boat?
Oh no you didn't just say that!!
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#4. To: Obnoxicated (#3)
You mean swarthy women in tight fitting peasant dresses dancing and playing tambourines doesn't float your boat?
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