Immigration News May 18

SPAIN

BBC:

There are an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 prostitutes in Spain, more than 90% are immigrants and most operate from roadside brothels, said the union.

Many are eastern European or African and work in near slavery, it said. "This cannot be tolerated," it added.

EUROPE

news.com.au

The Netherlands was once seen as a haven of stability and tolerance, but social tensions have risen since the 2002 murder of openly gay anti-immigration populist Pim Fortuyn and the killing last November of a filmmaker critical of Islam.

The rise in homophobia has been blamed on immigrant groups such as Turks and Moroccans - already under scrutiny amid accusations they are not doing enough to combat Islamic militancy - and on politicians preaching conservative values.

US

National Review:

Mark Krikorian

The essence of the bill is the same as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: amnesty up front for millions of illegal aliens in exchange for paltry promises of future enforcement — promises that will quickly be abandoned. But in 1986, many people didn’t know that yet. There was a sense then that the law was a grand bargain — closing the back door by prohibiting the employment of illegal immigrants (for the first time ever), but tying up the loose ends of prior policy missteps with an amnesty.