>>> Europe's detention camps of shame:
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> We asked if we could look round the closed detention centres and were
>>> told that was not possible. When we approached the perimeter fence of one
>>> of them, we were angrily waved away. The conditions looked rudimentary,
>>> with a shortage of shelter and washing facilities.
>>>
>>> They are grateful for the help the Maltese have given them, but they say
>>> the conditions in the detention centres are very harsh.
>>>
>>> They have to claim asylum in Malta to avoid being sent home, and then
>>> they are stuck. Under EU rules, they have to stay in the country in which
>>> they first arrived.
>>>
>>> "It's like a trap," said Warsame Ali Garare, a well-educated Somali in
>>> his 20s. "You can't continue, you can't go back, and the Maltese don't
>>> want you here. The dream is to leave Malta. Everybody wants to leave."
>>>
>>> It is a kind of perverse reversal of the American immigrants' dream.
>>>
>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4365030.stm
>>>
>>> Those who make it to Malta face an uncertain future. They are held in
>>> closed detention centres for up to 18 months while their claims are
>>> processed. If they are granted refugee status or humanitarian protection,
>>> they are released to live in open centres.
>>>
>>> In one of the centres, the migrants are only allowed out of their rooms
>>> for two hours of sunshine a week.
>>>
>>> The backlash is not just political. There were arson attacks last year
>>> against church groups and journalists who publicly supported the
>>> migrants.
>>>
>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283736.stm
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> Yes-sir-ee - You Europeans sure know how to round-up people and stick
>>> them in camps.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
