gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 1
st, 2010 at 12:47pm:
[=1291158160/0#0 date=1291158159]SWITZERLAND endorsed a far-right push to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of certain crimes.
The move has dismayed critics who described it as a "dark day for human rights."
Some 52.9 per cent of those who voted were in favour, while 47.1 per cent were against, with the country's German-speaking majority largely backing the proposal.
Only six out of 26 cantons rejected it.
The move came exactly a year after Switzerland shocked the world by agreeing to ban the construction of new minarets, which was another proposal backed by the far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP).
As with their campaign against minarets, the SVP had launched an aggressive campaign to push forward their proposal for the expulsion of foreign criminals, saying that those guilty of certain crimes should be stripped of their right to remain in the country.
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Its signature poster illustrates a white sheep kicking a black sheep out of the Swiss flag.
Another poster depicts a gangster-like man with the slogan "Ivan S., rapist, and soon a Swiss?"
"It's very simple: we think that people we welcome in Switzerland should respect the rules of this country," Fabrice Moscheni, president of the SVP in canton Vaud, said.
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well they do have a point. its all about respect I believe.
Cods, I think if you check, you'll find the same or similar laws re:foreign nationals/crime/explusion already apply in Australia... [/quote]
it isnt mandatory though is it.. they can fight it.. like the American has just done.. and we have to make all sort of investigations to see they are treated right.. even though they abused their rights and ours in our own country.
auctually I wasnt really referring to Australia in particular. on this.
when someone does get deported the bleeding hearts seem to come from somewhere and spend thousands of our dollars to give them more rights than seems fair sometimes.
If someone here gets thrown off their land or out of their house for probably non payments.. they dont come out of the woodwork to save them do they?..yet crims are given all sorts of legal help.in case we get it wrong or get accused of racism