Downturn exacerbates immigration and employment problems in Spain
Victor Mallet, a columnist and editor with the Financial Times, discussed the effect that the global financial crisis is having on Third World migrant stoop labor in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6152. As in all Western countries, Third World immigration is Spain is driven largely by business interests demanding cheap workers. Mallet’s article, “Africans Reap Bitter Harvest on Spanish Farms; Migrant Labour: Hard-Pressed Spaniards Are Doing Jobs That They Used to Shun”, appeared in the December 24, 2008 edition of the Financial Times on page 2.
In Ubeda, Jaen province, an olive growing http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2635 in Andalusia, Christmas shopping is tense as sullen crowds of Africans and Muslims loiter in the streets. Ubeda’s indoor stadium has also been opened as a large homeless shelter for unemployed Africans and Muslims.
Illegal aliens, mainly from Algeria, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6186, Senegal and Gambia, have been swarming the Jaen region for years, but never in such large numbers, and never before have confronted an economy in which Spaniards are taking the agricultural jobs. Spaniards, who previously disdained such work, are now the preferred employees of Spanish farmers.Cameroonian legal foreign worker Albert Mbila is quoted in the article and simply expresses his hatred for Spaniards, pretending he is the victim of racism. He then goes on to blame his unemployment on illegal immigration (They “just keep on coming, coming, coming.”). Malian illegal alien Bakary Konate notes that there is no construction work at all, now. Spanish construction workers have turned to agricultural labor in droves. Moreover, now there is a Spanish law that will fine farmers for using illegal aliens as agricultural labor.
In Ubeda, the local Red Cross is giving free bus tickets to illegal aliens to help them relocate to Madrid or Valencia. The next stop on the annual migrant farm worker circuit is the straw harvest in Huelva in January. Few are optimistic, with Finance Minister Pedro Solbes predicting continuing economic decline. Mbile wails: “We’re going to die.”
Such misery is largely caused by corporate greed and the ideological agenda of those who seek to “multiculturalize” the West. Relocating migrants to urban centers will result in large slums populated by unemployable poor people, along the lines of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5791 in France, which have become ungovernable hotbeds of crime.