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2006-03-15 Africa North

Immigration: 500,000 Migrants Mass In Mauritania

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Posted by Fred 2006-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yikes.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-15 00:35|| 2006-03-15 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 And the percentage of Mauritanians who are Muslim: 99%.

Posted by Listen To Dogs 2006-03-15 01:19|| 2006-03-15 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Mauritania has announced it will take "immediate" action to fight illegal immigration, including stepping up patrols along its borders and the construction of reception centres.

I've never considered welcome centers to be deterrents. Of course, maybe I've always completely misunderstood the purpose of those really big rest stops on I-75 just inside the Florida border.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-15 05:28|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-15 05:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Are they in need of letters of transit for passage to Lisbon?

Posted by Richard Blaine 2006-03-15 07:20|| 2006-03-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Refugees equal to one SIXTH of their population is lined up at the exit door? What are they eating while waiting - a place as poor as Mauritania can't afford to feed them. Has the UN set up a 'food for slaves' program? (IIRC Mauritania is one of the few countries still practicing true slavery.)
At least 1000 drowned trying to leave just the past four months? Yet they keep coming.
It is a scary situation for the West, but there is something in me that kind of admires people who take action and take risk to improve their lot in life (rather than sit in camps waiting for food from charities.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-03-15 07:41|| 2006-03-15 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 It is a scary situation for the West, but there is something in me that kind of admires people who take action and take risk to improve their lot in life (rather than sit in camps waiting for food from charities.)

Why can't they improve the place they live?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-15 07:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-15 07:54|| Front Page Top

#7 RC - "Why can't they improve the place they live?"
Good question. In the West hard work and a positive attitude frequently equal personal improvement; in central Africa they are more likely to equal exhaustion and despair. What I'd like to do is make an even trade - one US prison Muslim for each of these refugees. Heck, I'll take TWO refugees per prison Muslim, or one per Farakhannoid not in prison.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-03-15 08:28|| 2006-03-15 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 most would be migrants arent interested in "improving a place" but in improving the situation of themselves and their families. They will weigh the costs and benefits of moving versus those of staying.

Thats true in west africa and El salvador and India today. It was true of Sicily, and Galicia, and County Cork, and Norway, in the 19th and early 20th c. It was true of Ulster, and the Scottish Highlands, and London, and the Rhineland, and Switzerland, in the years before 1775.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-03-15 10:56|| 2006-03-15 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 Are they in need of letters of transit for passage to Lisbon?
Posted by Richard Blaine

Heh.

I'll be in tomorrow night with a beautiful blonde, Rick, and it will make me very happy if she loses.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-03-15 11:08|| 2006-03-15 11:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I doubt if you can really take the moor out of mauritania, but it seems their trying to find out.

Posted by Phavilet Grolurt9350 2006-03-15 17:31|| 2006-03-15 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm with you, LiberalHawk.

It shows initiative, risk, determination and desire. Reminds me of my family. A group you mentioned.

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