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Title: (illegal) Migrant influx worries Canaries
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BBC
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4771721.stm
Published: May 15, 2006
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2006-05-15 18:13:37 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 95
Comments: 14
Senior Spanish ministers have been discussing the illegal immigration crisis facing the Canary Islands after a mass landing of immigrants. Nearly 1,000 people arrived in boats from Africa over the weekend - the largest number this year. Officials on the islands say at least 5,000 immigrants have made the journey this year and urged Madrid to give the issue greater priority. The Spanish government says it will step up action to tackle the problem. Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said increasing numbers of illegal immigrants would be repatriated and joint patrols by Spanish and Mauritanian forces start on Monday to guard against illegal people trafficking to the Canaries. Since Friday, 974 illegal migrants on boats heading for the Canary Islands have been intercepted by Spanish authorities. Thousands try to reach Europe through Spanish waters every year - most packed into narrow, open boats from north Africa that sometimes take weeks to arrive. Many destroy their identity papers before reaching Spain to hinder repatriation. Poster Comment: Good gawd.. even the Canary Islands??
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
So they're "singing"...the stool pigeons...! :P
"Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
When I said it would suit me fine If you were out of sight and out of mind That wasn't me talking That was my wounded pride When I said I didn't want your love And you were no one I was thinking of Believe me baby I lied
I can fix that At first I thought they were talking about canary birds. Maybe the immigrants were eating them. Now, if they want to attack my African Diarrhea Bird, they're welcome to try.
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
LOL! Hilarious!
Now, if they want to attack my African Diarrhea Bird, they're welcome to try. The title on this one went right over my head!! It does read that way.. UH African Diarrhea Bird?? Dare I ask??
Just don't ever look him in the eye.
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Hmm dare I ask again? LOL An African Grey??
Just don't ever look him in the eye. Hmm dare I ask again? LOL It's too horrible to even contemplate. Oh no -- he just blew up! ACK! GACK!
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Oh no -- he just blew up! ACK! GACK! k.. I PROMISE I will not ask.. Blew up?? ;P
It's too horrible to even contemplate. Oh no -- he just blew up! ACK! GACK! k.. I PROMISE I will not ask.. Blew up?? ;P My African Diarrhea Bird! Gone! Exploded!
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Gone like dead and buried?
Gone like dead and buried? He's gone, but not buried. I don't have a bio-hazard suit.
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Migrant influx worries Canaries
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits---and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!" ----Fitzgerald's Ruba'iyat, XCIX
#2. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#1)
So they're "singing"...the stool pigeons.
#3. To: Zipporah (#2)
So they're "singing"...the stool pigeons.
#4. To: Zipporah (#0)
- most packed into narrow, open boats
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#5. To: Zipporah (#0)
#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#3)
FIND THE BIRD!
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
At first I thought they were talking about canary birds. Maybe the immigrants were eating them.
#8. To: Zipporah (#7)
UH African Diarrhea Bird?? Dare I ask??
#9. To: YertleTurtle (#8)
Just don't ever look him in the eye.
#10. To: Zipporah (#9)
#11. To: YertleTurtle (#10)
It's too horrible to even contemplate.
#12. To: Zipporah (#11)
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#12)
My African Diarrhea Bird! Gone! Exploded!
#14. To: Zipporah (#13)
My African Diarrhea Bird! Gone! Exploded!
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