Let them in at your peril Athens. Remember Constantinople.
Posted on 01/25/2011 4:53:18 PM PST by americanophile
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 250 immigrants began a hunger strike in Greece on Tuesday, demanding to be legalized and challenging a Greek government crackdown on migrant trafficking.
Some 200 immigrants, mostly from North Africa, launched the hunger strike at Athens University Law School after taking a ferry to Athens from the island of Crete. Supporters said 50 others went on a hunger strike in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
Police are forbidden by law to enter university grounds without special permission.
The Socialist government flatly ruled out considering the demands.
"There is no intention and no possibility of a mass and indiscriminate legalization of aliens who have entered and reside in the country illegally," the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Greece is the busiest transit point for illegal immigration in the European Union, where some 128,000 migrants — about 350 a day — entering the country illegally in 2010, according to government figures.
With their shoes neatly lined up outside the classroom, the immigrants lay on blankets and sleeping bags in the central Athens campus building, which is closed for renovations.
Hunger striker Mustafa Halfoun said he had been in Greece for six years and found it impossible to obtain legal papers. He said he worked on construction sites as a plumber but was often cheated by employers.
"There is no going back for us. ... We will win this fight or we will die," Halfoun told The Associated Press, asking not to be identified by nationality so all protesters would be treated equally.
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Fish bait!!
Any way we can convince them to keep it up?
Let them in at your peril Athens. Remember Constantinople.
Let’m starve. I would guess that after they feel real hunger, they will cave. ;-)
Great timing. Things are very hard on native born Greeks right now, so they pick this time to make their demands.
Can even 5% of Greeks care whether these yutes starve or go back to Africa as long as go they do?
No one forced them there, they can go back to their crappy countries.
What’s needed is a new leader who will create a new Western Empire and just go out and conquer the rest of the planet. Then they can be citizens/subjects all they like. Either get on board or get crushed.
That, or have a giant pig-roast right outside their apartments.
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