EU approves tough guidelines for illegals

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 6/19/2008 7:30:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';

In response to economic and national security concerns, the European Union has approved new rules for expelling illegal immigrants from the bloc. A Pentagon advisor believes the measure was long overdue.

Until now there has been no common EU policy for expelling illegal immigrants, and detention periods have varied from 32 days in France to indefinite custody in Britain, the Netherlands, and five other EU countries.
 
Under the new guidelines, however, illegal aliens can be held in specialized detention centers up to 18 months before being expelled; and a re-entry ban of five years may be imposed on expelled immigrants who do not cooperate or are deemed a threat.  Participating nations have two years to implement the new rules, which are part of an effort to create a uniformed EU asylum and immigration policy by 2010.
 
Lt. Colonel Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) says the move is well overdue. But he says it remains to be seen whether those countries can stop what he calls a "massive" influx of Muslims who refuse to assimilate into the European culture and, instead, prefer to take over and transform that culture "into something reminiscent of the countries they come from ...."
 
Maginnis notes that the new rules are very interesting, considering the criticism doled out by liberals in the United States over the holding of Islamic terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay facility ("Gitmo") in Cuba.
 
"If it weren't sad it would be humorous," he continues. "The Europeans are recognizing that some of these people should not set be free. And if they were they would just recidivate into the same old ways."
 
Maginnis believes it may already be too late for Europe to turn things around.