Sponsoring Cigarettes!

[Malèna]

source:
http://www.jrsmalta.org/howhelp01.html/


Sponsor a Detainee

You could choose either to make a one-off donation or to sponsor a detainee on a regular basis. This would entail Lm10 per month to pay for one phone card and basic needs like soap and other items for personal hygiene, fresh fruit, food for special diets, and cigarettes.


Asylum seekers in detention urgently need telephone cards to call home, which is prohibitively expensive for them, usually around Lm1.29 per minute at peak time and 96 cents per minute off-peak time.
To make matters worse, the family of the asylum seeker rarely has a phone. So the asylum seeker must call a neighbour?s house and wait while his relative is found somewhere in the village, while precious minutes tick by.

It is necessary for asylum seekers to make these calls because they need certificates from their home country to back their claim for refugee status. Without such documentation, it is likely they will not be granted refugee status.

This is quite apart from humanitarian considerations: asylum seekers in Malta have often left very close relatives ? parents, spouses and children ? back in very dangerous situations in their country (for example, conflict and post-conflict Iraq) and they have no news of them for months.


source:
http://www.jrsmalta.org/howhelp01.html/

[Mirko]

ahjar taghtu il-flus lili ha nixxi gitarra :p

[umberto]

Hsiebthom mil-gwerra u d-distruzjoni gejjin l-afrikani.
u mil-iraq bhalissa m'amdhomx alfejn jitilqu n-nies. ma hemmx gwerra imma attakki terroristici l-hawn u l-hemm.

x'aktarx il-qraba gejjin huma personali bid-dokumenti.

[Admin]

Why don't the jrs give them the phone cards and cigarettes themselves. They could take the funds from the money Hon. Christina just gave them, couldn't they? :rolleyes: It's not as if they are wanting for money either. :mad:

[lespaul87]

Nilqgħu fostna lill-eluf t'immigranti mill-Iraq li ta' kull sajf jiġu jżuruna (?)

[Gladiator]

Asylum seekers in detention urgently need telephone cards to call home, which is prohibitively expensive for them, usually around Lm1.29 per minute at peak time and 96 cents per minute off-peak time.
To make matters worse, the family of the asylum seeker rarely has a phone. So the asylum seeker must call a neighbour?s house and wait while his relative is found somewhere in the village, while precious minutes tick by.
How about if the JRS uses drums or bongos instead! It is less cheaper and I'll bet you the whole bloody tribe will hear them!


Boom.. Boom... Hold the damn line bozo, Boom.. Bomm.... It's Bambo calling from Safi, Malta! Booom. Boom are you there?:D :D :D

[Marco Polo]

im lucky if i can afford to buy credit for my own mobile. Do they really think locals are so stupid? everyone sees them running around with the latest mobiles.

[Artist]

Ghadni kemm rajt hames suwed jigru b'jeep jittantaw lil dik u lill-ohra.
Fejn waslet Malta taghna.
Dazgur issa qed jahdmu u qed ikollhom il-flus fil-but.
Povru dak il-Malti li ma jistax isib xoghol.

[Mazzola75]

U kif gabuha l-licenzja dawn meta anqas il-Maltin ma huma qed jghaddu mit-test!

[PERICLES]

Ghadni kemm rajt hames suwed jigru b'jeep jittantaw lil dik u lill-ohra.
Fejn waslet Malta taghna.
Dazgur issa qed jahdmu u qed ikollhom il-flus fil-but.
Povru dak il-Malti li ma jistax isib xoghol.

Were they immigrants or "British" tourists (they are increasing you know)???

[Artist]

Nahseb li kienu turisti ghax tnejn minnhom kienu libsin flokk tal-futbol ta' l-Ingilterra.
Kienu x'kienu jridu joqghodu ta' nies.

[PERICLES]

Nahseb li kienu turisti ghax tnejn minnhom kienu libsin flokk tal-futbol ta' l-Ingilterra.
Kienu x'kienu jridu joqghodu ta' nies.

Dazgur li jridu joqghodu ta' nies pero ejja noqoghodu attenti li ma nhawdux "Anglo-Afrikan" ma mmigrant illegali.

[Gladiator]

Msiken ma ghandhomx dokumenti?

Migrants' travel documents

Joe Borg, Xghajra.

Monica Schaeffer of Msida (June 23) should read my letter a little more carefully before trying to ridicule its contents. She argues that migrants have no documents to destroy because the necessary offices for the processing of visas, passports and other travel documents are non-existent in some African tribal villages and that they would have to travel long distances to obtain them.

That line of argument is not very convincing. In the first place, we have a mixed spread of illegal immigrants stretching from Morocco right along the countries on the Mediterranean shores up to Syria in the north east. We can add those that come from Iran, Iraq and Pakistan.

Ms Schaeffer did not say which African countries she was referring to. I have been to parts of the Sudan, Ethiopia and right down to South Africa to see the shanty towns in which these unfortunate people live. One very visible commodity that is very much evident among their few possessions is a transistor radio. It follows that they are well in touch with current events at least locally. If they are not aware that travel documents are necessary for presentation at their destination they are certainly aware of the criminal agencies that take their money to ferry them across thousands of miles to land them illegally into other countries in search of a new life.

If the lady read my letter carefully, she would find that I had urged the government to publicise the kind of reception they will receive when they land in Malta so that the presentation of documents and consequent detention, while their claims are processed, would be no surprise to them.

It is also no excuse that they have to travel long distances to obtain legal travel documents. I rather suspect that since they do not intend to present any, there is no reason for them to obtain these documents in the first place which is sufficient evidence of their criminal intent. Let me remind Ms Schaeffer that these people have conspired with their traffickers to break the law of the country on which they land. Conspiracy is a recognised criminal offence under Maltese law. So is non-presentation of travel documents upon arrival. These two offences make these people willing law breakers. Moreover, they are queue jumpers who want to emigrate to another country for a better life before those who take the more legal routes to achieve the same result.

I am just as much upset as my interlocutor when I see innocent children in the world, especially in Africa, starving and without water, existing in disease infested lands. I am not too proud of my meagre financial contribution which hopefully helps towards ameliorating their condition. Different emotions are evoked about illegal immigrants. They must know when they come here they will become a burden on the state and its taxpayers. They are costing the country the use of resources better applied elsewhere. The sum of Lm3 million was the latest government estimate of the cost to Malta for feeding, clothing, housing and detaining the illegal influx of these people. I would be more impressed with the lady if she undertook the responsibility of looking after some of these people in her own home.