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Every State or Country has a Budget to work with. The populace elects the representatives to prepare the budget and spend the people's money wisely.
The money is from TAXATION. Taxes are paid in or collected from citizens and the services they provide or utilize.
ALL prudent budgets (including prudent individual budgets) - there are four parts: (1) Necessary expenditure (2) further development and investment (3) Savings for a rainy day (4) charity.
Charity is what one does after one has met the responsibilities to ones citizens / residents : e.g. Good Roads, Public Safety, Health Care, Adequate funding for Schools, Clean Environment etc
Each year, Thousands of desis travel to Canada & the US to JUST deliver their newborns. These children are Canadians and US citizens by birth - as they should be.
Of late, the US immigration authorities have been clamping down (at the airports) on pregnant women trying to enter the US on visit visas.
Genuine visitors and those genuinely in need of family support during the birth of a newborn suffer in the bargain.
Ireland was one of those accomodating and welcoming countries. It is a pity that ALL have to suffer because of the pregnant women who were exploiting the situation.
The new Irish Law will DENY automatic citizenship for newborns of mothers who have been in Eire legally for less than 4 years. That is draconian. One could understand less that 9 months. BUT less than 4 years?
This how genuine people suffer from the actions of abusers.
jose colaco
ps: and this from the latest edition of the Goan Observer
AND A FEW stray thoughts on the diabolical conspiracy on the part of the BJP to change the demography of the constituencies, particularly those in South Goa.
The BJP had obviously decided that the best way of marginalising the minorities is to woo the backward classes and the migrants.
IN THE CASE of Goa the BJP government has developed a sudden enthusiasm for implementing the programme. Because of its enormous potential for changing the demographic structure of minority dominated constituencies.
To offset the minority vote bank of the Congress the BJP is determined to create a backward class/migrant vote bank.
Mischievously the Parrikar government has declared that all those who have a domicile certificate would be eligible for allotment of plots.
No doubt the Mamlatdars and Talathis will be instructed to provide all migrants with domicile certificates even if they have only recently arrived in Goa.
Goans ....will (not) benefit from it, because one of the primary criterions is that the intended beneficiary should not own either a house or land in Goa.
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The lengths some people go to in order to get STATUS in another place
(1)
Press Trust of India Posted online: Thursday, October 28, 2004
Washington, October 28: An Indian man in the US allegedly married his sister while his wife married his brother as part of a "phony wedding" scheme so that the man's siblings could evade immigration waiting periods, a media report said.
(2)
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- The Irish have voted "yes" in a referendum on citizenship, final results showed on Sunday, giving the government a green light to crack down on immigrants it says EXPLOIT THE LAW to get into the European Union.
Dublin says non-EU nationals come to give birth in Ireland so they can then claim residency as parents of children who automatically become Irish citizens.
...nearly 80 percent of voters in Friday's referendum backed a government proposal to amend the rules on citizenship in the constitution.
Provisional results showed 20.9 percent opposing the proposal on a turnout of 57.4 percent.
The result means Ireland, the last country in the EU to offer citizenship automatically to all children born on its soil, is almost certain to withdraw that right later this year.
The government will now draft new citizenship legislation, expected to be approved swiftly by parliament.
The centrist administration of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern called the referendum to close "a loophole."
During the referendum campaign, newspapers highlighted the cases of heavily pregnant women who have arrived in Ireland just weeks before giving birth to take advantage of the law.
One senior doctor told of a woman who flew to Ireland from South Africa just 36 hours before giving birth to quads.
The government said the number of non-nationals born in Irish hospitals has increased nearly six-fold since 1998 and now accounts for 29 percent of total hospital births.
According to one major Dublin maternity clinic, well over 80 percent of women who turned up late or unbooked to gave birth last year were foreigners.
Here are some comments on RTE
(1) I believe that it is right to restrict citizenship to non-EU Nationals who come here for the sole purpose of giving birth. They are using a loophole in our legislation to obtain EU passports. We are the only county in Europe to have such lax immigration laws. We must protect the welfare and social rights of our citizens first and foremost. Non-EU Nationals who come here to work and contribute to Irish society are most welcome as the Irish did when we emigrated years ago.
(2) As it is women are coming in to Ireland and heading straight for the maternity hospitals to have their babies, and this is not ideal particularly for the babies. I have worked in a maternity hospital so I have first hand experience of this.
(3) A Referendum is essential because of the volatility of the subject. The social results of a massive shift in population in a short time on a small country are inestimable.
(4) It's unfortunate that this law has been abused by illegal immigrants but If it is an absolute legal requirement to have a referendum to change this then fine. As long as this loophole is finally closed.
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