Sadly, the anti-immigrant movement seems to be all the rage in Europe as well as the US. In France, the subject is receiving a lot of hype from the right with threats of deportation. Pick just about any country in western Europe and you will hear hot debates about foreigners invading their country, much like we hear in the US. Interestingly enough, each country seems to think that they are the prime target by immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa, offering a quality of life to immigrants that is far superior than any other of their neighbors.
Last year in the UK when the anti-immigrant hysteria was taking off, they passed a new law which was supposed to stop foreigners from invading the UK and taking advantage of the NHS. (Strange because I don't know many in the UK who are wild about the quality of the NHS and elsewhere in Europe, NHS is often used as the model of how not to nationalize healthcare.) The end result was a young mother was left to die while fighting a deportation battle.
Ms Alabi was denied the chance of a heart transplant simply on the grounds of her nationality and died in hospital on Monday night at the age of 29, leaving three-month-old twin boys and a two-year-old son. Desperate attempts to get a High Court judge to overturn the rules were delayed as Ms Alabi was forced to fight a deportation battle even as she lay dying in hospital.
