A national crisis, indeed

More from Malta Today, and Joseph Muscat, who has recently described the immigration issue as a "national crisis".

The Malta today commentator Saviour Balzan had this to say on the subject:

"Muscat is really trying hard to suck up to popular dissent on immigration.
He described it as a national problem. I would rather call it a national
phobia. If there is a national problem it has to be the floods that follow
every rainstorm. That is a national problem."
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/09/24/sbalzan.html

Thank you, Saviour, for expressing exactly how I feel about this boring issue. My only remark on immigration, other than that it's the classical case of making a mountain out of a molehill, is this. In the 1990s there was a substantial influx of Yugoslavs fleeing that war-torn country, rather similar in scale to the present influx of Africans, but no one raised a whimper then. Maybe, just maybe, no one minded then because Yugoslavs are not black.