Try moving to Finland..

Eveline Fadayel has become somewhat of a celebrity in Finland. Not because she’s done something spectacular, but because the Finnish government won’t let her stay in the country. She has appealed and re-appealed and pleaded and begged, and her whole family has got the interest of the media who loves portraying the immigrant office as the villain. She has won the hearts of many finns that feel that the treatment of this grandmother that wishes to stay with her sons family has been cruel and that the process has been taken too long. I feel for her too, but the problem is not to let her stay, the problem is the consequences of her staying here. Let me enlighten you on this matter. The law system is built so that there are some basic laws and there are practices. Practice in law comes from decisions made in the Supreme Court. If the supreme court was to say that she is allowed to stay in the country, this would change the law on immigrant politics. As it is now, the core family consists of the mother, father and their children. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins are not part of this family. This may be hard for some cultures to understand but if you want to come to Finland this is just the way it is. Finland has long had a very strict immigrant policy, you can read more on that here: http://kikisplaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/welcome-to-finland-all-of-you/

I really would love for Eveline to stay, but then the doors to our country would be open to a larger core family that would inculde more people that would have the right to stay. As the economical crisis still has an effect on our society we need to focus on building this country into a stable economy, otherwise we cannot have social system and a wellfare state to support ourselves and others that wish to stay here. We need more knowledge and skills to Finland, we are a small country situated in the outskirts of Europe and our current law system doesn’t really promote new businesses nor ideas to become something bigger. We need proffessional people, but how to get them here, learn the language and give more to society than they get out of it is a very hard equation to crack, and no politician I know of has yet cracked it.

In the construction business there are currently 20 000 Finnish workers unemployed. At the same time there are 20 – 30 000 illegal and/or foreign workers currently working in Finland. Is this the right way to go, is this fair? Shouldn’t we first take care of our own, and then the others, or should we forget our own people and our own country, and start taking care of everyone else first? In 2008 the Finnish government spent 48,6 billion euros on social welfare. This means 9140 euros per person living in Finland. 933 million was paid to cover costs occurred by alcoholism, and there are over 32000 people currently in some kind of psychiatrical care. Don’t forget the elderly, the unemployed, students, and normal doctoral visits. We cannot take care of more people than we already are doing, there are enough problems within our country, which is why the supreme court could not give a verdict that would have favored Eveline, who has become the front figure of this whole discussion in the media. And all she wanted to do was to be reunited with her family.

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