It seems the threat of aliens works in Europe, too. In France, conservative President Sarkozy has pounced on the whole illegal alien thing as a political football or soccer ball. Instead of Mexicans, he has used the Roma, (Gypsies) as the scapegoats and deported a plane load of them to Romania.
Having a very slight bit of Roma heritage this story caught my eye. It is not the first time the ROma have been used as pawns in European politics. You will remember back in the 1930's Gypsies as well as Jews and Homosexuals were blamed for all the problems of Germany. They were first relocated and then herded into camps for ... well you know the rest.
The point is that it seems like history is starting to repeat itself. For the sake of the Roma and for all of Europe, I sincerely hope this is not a harbinger of something worse. It also creates a problem for EU unity which seems a bit shaky lately.
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