I get so upset when people who I like and respect jump on the anti-illegal immigrants bandwagon. It's because I hold them in high regard, and because I cannot understand how they harbour such praiseworthy values and then go align themselves with a bunch of racists and xenophobes.
A group of 21st century crusaders want to "save Malta" from illegal immigrants. What exactly do they have in mind? What's this great danger facing our nation, from which it needs to be saved? Are those Africans, who are so desperate as to risk their lives by crossing the Mediterranean sea in a leaking bathtub, only to end up in a concentration camp in Malta, going to eat the Maltese population alive?
Instead of boasting and preaching about our Christian values and our hospitality, wouldn't it be a better idea to actually put them into practice? We could start by looking up the meaning of the word "solidarity".
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