© get this straight © YOUR WRETCHED racist takes to the lists again today. But this time he supports his stance by filching a news report from the Globe & Mail, which would rather burn down its plant (aan come out for an immigration policy that makes sense. When we have gone Third World the Globe will tarow a party. Still... The story was headed “Economic refugees’ clog immigra- tion queue,’* and photos showed crowds of blacks from Trinidad moving into Wimpland through the Toronto airport. It began: “The woman with five young children was calm and self-assured as she sat in a cubicle in the im- migration office at Toronto's Pearson airport... ‘Yes, we're refugees,’ she told the immigra- tion officer. ‘We want to stay in Canada.’"" The woman's husoand, also from Trinidad and also a so-called refugee, was waiting outside for her as ‘‘the tired immigration in- spector resignedly began the cumbersome paper work.’* “The papers would entitle her — as all refugee claimants — to claim welfare, use the provincial medical insurance plan and put the children in school.’” If she were to work il- legally nothing would happen to her. ‘We don’t have the staff to enforce that,” a senior immigra- “Lease For Less” All Makes! Short and Long term! Everything from... ‘Jetta’s to Jaguar’s” Buy-out options available at lease-end. Phone Steve Coles $985-0694 KOMBI WATERGUARD LADIES MITTS REG. 25.00 19% Capilano Auto Lease 4151 Marine Drive North Vancouver tion official stated. At least a third of the 228 pas- sengers who had boarded the plane in Trinidad were trying to get into this country by subterfuge, and “of those in the suspect group with no friends or relatives here, the favorite reason for coming to Toronto as a ‘visitor’ was that they wanted to see snow for the first time.”’ Within a few hours of arriving, however, many of these ‘‘visitors’” were claiming refugee status, which meant that ‘‘tney must automatically be released pending ‘adjudication of their claims.” About 600 Trinidadians got in like this in November. In Toronto alone. “They join a backlog of more * than 60,000 refugee claimants,”’ wrote reporter Peter Moon. ‘‘At the moment they can expect Co re- main in Canada for up to five years ... Currently, seven out of 10 claims are rejected as not genuine, but few of the claimants are ever Steve Coles - Lease Consultant SKIMASTERS HOT TIPS JR. GLOVES REG. 28.00 forced to leave Canada because it is felt that after five years they have roots in this country and it would be inhumane to deport them.”” In other words, just come in, folks, be ye black or brown, pink or primrose, literate or illiterate, honest or dishonest, poet or pea- sant. There is no corner of the earth that hasn’t heard about The Great Canadian Bonanza. As the Globe story stated further: “A man from Ghana, who ar- rived on a charter from England, smitingly told an inspector that he had ripped up his passport on the plane. After claiming refugee status, he demanded to be inter- viewed in his native Twi language ...’? (Whereupon officialdom ran around trying to find someone who spoke Twi, one is left to assume.) “A report came in from Termi- nal Two,” the story continued, “that a passenger from the African nation 2f Malawi had collapsed after claiming refugee status. He was taken to hospital by am- bulance because officers thought he had a heart attack. It turned out he had eaten his passport.” The immigration people cannot stop the phoneys and liars who are . DECEMBER 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST WITH SANTA | at Edelweiss Restaurant and Dell. Pic- a ture with Santa, gift and breakfast for § only $1.99. Purchase your tickets now J at Delbrook Plaza. SALE ENDS DEC. 24/88 errr 174 pouring into this country. Their hands are ticd. They can’t even search people to find out whether the new arrivals have any docu- ments. Scenes like the Trinidadian inva- sion are acted out every day in every major airport in the country, and frustrated immigration of- ficers are ready to cut their throats. The country’s population make- up is being changed by the day. Sixty thousand phoney refugees . means 600,000 once their numerous offspring and granddads have arrived. Which doesn’t even count the 70 per cent of legitimate immigrants from the Third World who bring in the whole tribe under family reunification. The politicians? Cowards and lickspittles. Power before princi- ple. Anyone who complains is a “racist and extremist.'’ Like me. The Globe story ended with a quote from an immigration man who said: ‘‘What kine of immigra- tion system do we have? This whole thing is a sham, and nobody gives 2 damn.”’ The well-worn cliche applies: Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad @ 9 - Wednesday, December 7, 1988 - North Shore News Students to visit Quebec DONACONA, QUEBEC, will be the destination of 25 West Van- couver Secondary School students for one week this coming April, West Vancouver School Board decided last Monday. Hilary Matts, West Van French teacher and tour escort, told the board the Grade 11! students will travel for 10 school days in early April 1989. Mats will be assisted by student French teacher Jeff Hassenauer. The Quebec itinerary includes a total immersion in the French lan- guage and culture as weil as tours of such historic sites as the Plains of Abraham. 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