Posted on 11/27/2010 5:10:20 PM PST by decimon
Voters in Switzerland will go to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit crimes.
Supporters of the proposal claim immigrants to Switzerland are disproportionately responsible for crime and should not be allowed to stay in the country.
The proposal is the initiative of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, the party which also masterminded last year's successful campaign to ban the building of minarets in Switzerland.
The People's Party points to the fact that foreigners are overrepresented in Swiss jails - about 70% of the inmates are foreign, while 23% of Switzerland's overall population is foreign.
"We have in Switzerland two kinds of foreigners, the foreigners who want to work and respect our laws, and these foreigners are welcome," said Patrick Freudiger, a member of the youth branch of the People's Party.
"Then we have other foreigners who commit crimes, who don't want to work," he added.
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Almost one in four people living in Switzerland is not actually Swiss, although a great many were actually born in the country.
Switzerland's naturalisation process is one of the toughest in Europe, and becoming Swiss remains a long, complicated and expensive process.
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wrong wing.
Japan actually has a policy like this, but they don’t make a big fuss about it.
People with valid visas have had them revoked and have been deported for stealing $50 bicycles.
If you are arrested for any crime, your visa status is checked. If you are an illegal, you will eventually be turned over the the Department of Immigration for deportation even if the investigation shows you did not commit the crime.
Quite frankly, I like it this way.
Hopefully, Americans will pay attention to this, when we consider how we deal with illegal immigrants from Mexico.
That is, don’t think of all of them as being the same. If you do, you get swamped in trying to pass immigration reform. Instead prioritize.
That is, it makes a heck of a lot of sense to deport criminals and gang members ASAP. We shouldn’t let them hide in the enormous crowd of other Mexicans and other Hispanic illegals.
There should be no hesitation in this AT ALL. Say someone is identified by *anyone*: FBI, DEA, CIA, State police, local police, etc., as a member of the violent international criminal gang MS-13. Unless they are under arrest or in prison, they should be on the next plane out of the US heading South.
No delay. No appeal. They’re out of here. And let them know that they have been denied reentry to the US, so if they so much as step one foot over the US border, they are going to a federal prison for 10 years, and then get kicked out again, the day they finish their sentence.
Getting rid of the convicts, the criminals, the druggies, the welfare pimps, etc., should be the very first order of business. Let’s do them NOW, and we can deal with other illegals with other means, later.
N.B.: Mexico is already begging us to stop sending their criminals back, as they go on crime sprees as soon as they return. Sorry, not our citizens, not our problem. Mexico doesn’t have a death penalty. Maybe it should reconsider that policy, because it has an awful lot of bad men that need hanging.
Sounds good to me. Can we make that a part of the Conservative Platform in 2012?
LOL. A “tough” proposal? Editorialize much? :)
Kick out the foreigners who commit crimes! What a concept! Too bad it will never catch on here...
Due to budget cuts and the needed fiscal discipline, I can only support this sort of thing in the USA ... if we use trebuchets for the needed trip back to Mexico.
“Almost one in four people living in Switzerland is not actually Swiss, although a great many were actually born in the country.
Switzerland’s naturalisation process is one of the toughest in Europe, and becoming Swiss remains a long, complicated and expensive process.”
You mean to tell me in one of the most Progressive Socialist State in Europe doesn’t have Anchor Babies. What wrong with that picture? Hellary, you better get on this and save Switzerland from themselves. LOL
Boot the dirtbags out of your country before it is too late.
And boot their offspring out also.
That will be two steps toward getting your country back.
True story from the early 1990's. Since relations with Japan and Iran had been excellent under the Shah, there was a reciprocal visa free visitor agreement in place. As conditions grew worse in Iran, many of them used the loophole to escape the country. Some of them were good workers and got responsible jobs. Most of them ended up congregating in low rent housing and selling fake telephone cards to make a living.
Every time I passed through Ueno, Shinjuku or one of the other key transfer stations, they would approach offering to sell these cards. I got so tired of it, that one time I told them they needed to be more aggressive in their sales techniques, so I shouted "HENZO TELA-KADO HATSUBAI DESU YO!" They scattered like a bunch of illegals at a construction site used to scatter when somebody shouted "LA MIGRA!"
Not long after that, the immigration people started cracking down. It may have been a coincidence or it may have been that they were embarrassed by a legal GAIJIN calling attention to their benign negligence.
Gee,what a concept.
I think the Federal Government should treat illegal aliens the same way they treat drug dealers. When they catch them all their ill gotten gains are confiscated for the use of the government. Since they are here illegally all money and things that they've bought with that money is ill gotten gains. If the government starts doing that the illegals will self deport and unemployment will disappear and wages will go up without government intervention. (I hope the tea party picks up on this)
they are going to a federal prison for 10 years, and then get kicked out again, the day they finish their sentence.
to heck with that: shoot em.
Does jaywalking rise to the level of a deportable offense there?
With the right person it should.
Go for it Switzerland, you’d be more secure than America (ironically)..
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