Timesofmalta.com announced yesterday that a new-born baby girl and nine women were among a group of 25 migrants brought to Malta this morning on an AFM patrol boat after being picked up from a drifting dinghy. Another 43 migrants were picked up by a cargo ship which is transferring them to a patrol boat off Marsaxlokk.
The usual exponents of the xenophobic right were very quick to log in their pearls of wisdom. In the present brouhaha about an early election, politics, besides their racism, made its way some of the comments.
A certain Galea expects "to read in any party's electoral manifest that a firm stand be taken towards the repatriation of illegals to where they have embarked from." Ellul could not "understand why these Africans are still coming to bankrupt EU" adding for good measure that "Malta can barely feed itself". Michael Borg sarcastically asked us to "prepare free electricity , water , hot water, heaters, food , mobile cards, police , soldiers ( their pay) , hospital , work without paying tax and NI, crimes, and the lists goes on . While we struggle to make ends meet!!! Charity begins at home." (I charitably corrected the myriad mistakes that...
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