Am I the only one finding this extremely troubling, that 31 out of 45 cars stopped had people staying illegally in Malta?
https://timesofmalta.com/article/roadblock-nets-31-staying-malta-illegally-two-driving-licence.1115201
"Thirty-one persons were arrested at a police roadblock on Monday after they were found to be staying in Malta illegally.
The police said they mounted a routine roadblock in Burmarrad Road, St Paul’s Bay, and stopped 45 vehicles." TOM
If we take this percentage and extrapolate it on the whole population, that would be a huge number.
31 out of 45 people stopped at a roadblock are in Malta illegally
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Finding it extremely troubling that hunting down illegal immigrants is such an easy project to free up resources for. Imagine if they would spend the same resources on setting up roadblocks where they check drivers for alcohol, that might even have a real impact on our safety.
Not sure why i should be troubled by the fact that they found illegals, were we not already aware that Malta has a lot of illegals living here?
You are right. That really is troublesome. We are not talking about 31 tourists but illegal immigrants. A country should be able to defend its borders.
That’s impressive
Don’t forget two drivers had no license. Which is also 4%.
If the police would do their job, Malta could be a much better place.
It’s neither impressive nor troublesome. They just look at foreign looking passengers and stop the car.
31 out of 45?? That’s what happens when you dont have proper control mechanisms in place.
Sewwa nahseb jien. Il populazjioni ta Malta hija hafna iktar minn 540,000 li minhom jejdu 170,000 huma expats. Ma jistax ikun dan it-traffiku kollu u hlief expats jahdmu u barra ma tarax.
Makes you wonder which of our institutions are actually working as they should. The country is an island. If we cannot control our borders then what the hell is coming in that we are not detecting. This government has destroyed our peace of mind, our country, and the safety we once thought we had. All in the name of money.
pulizija jridu naqa snin. is snien jigu mil awtoritajiet.
għax jafu x jridu jagħmlu.
imma rridu naqdu l Alla u xitan f din l-art
Before we panic (whoops, too late!)
– what was the methodology of stopping cars. Did they only stop cars driven by brown people?
– when they’re talking about people here illegally, is this a mix of brown and white people? I knew a few English in Spain who were there illegally (and could never leave Schengen or they’d never get back in).
– was this a sting or how much intelligence did they have in advance. For instance, 45 cars stopped but only 31 people. How many people per car? If there’s seven cars, each packed with people, that means the other cars were not harbouring illegals.
– the wording seems deliberate to stoke outrage. How many people in the other cars?
– and lastly, if the numbers are the worst (which a lot of people seem to be reacting to – intentionally) then it blows the population estimate out of the water.
Yes it is worrying. Also, consider that out of the 45 cars stopped, and the 31 illegal people found in them, 39 cars/drivers had an illegality, like no road/driving licence etc. So out of 45 cars only 6 cars/drivers were not in the wrong somehow.
We have reached the pits of hell on the road.
This article is populism at its finest. They report something that sounds shocking but actually carries no real information; to build a political narrative or simply to create content out of nothing.
Because: without further information the figure “31 people out of 45 cars” doesn’t have any value.
What we are missing is info on:
* How many passengers were checked? 45 regular cars can carry up to 225 people, with vans even more. Meaning: in an extreme case it’s 31 out of 250+ checked passengers (it’s likely not, but it’s also likely not 31/45 as the average of passengers in cars is not 1).
* How were the cars selected for a stop? If they only stopped cars with e.g. Asian or Indian looking passengers, nearly 100% will have been immigrants. We know that there is illegal immigration of a certain value, let’s call it X. If we now take the value from my first point and deduct X from that, you have the value that will tell you if it’s troubling, or if it is the “expected” level of illegal immigration. If they stopped randomly a typical average of all cars and drivers on Maltese roads (which I doubt they did, a road block is supposed to bring results not follow statistic randomization), those results are more concerning than if not.
* What type of illegal immigration are we talking about? You can have people overstaying their visa or work permit. Then there are people who have crossed the borders and entered Malta illegally, never been registered by any authorities. The first are difficult to catch for authorities and point to a problem with enforcement of inner policies. While the letter points to a structural issue in the country’s border control and outer defense – which I would find much more concerning, as it opens routes for human trafficking and smuggling of drugs, weapons etc.
I am also surprised to hear this initiative being called “a routine check”. In 15 years driving in Malta I have never experienced any road checks, neither has anyone I know. Obviously, that is only anecdotal experience, but it still makes me wonder how loose their definition of “routine” is…
Just to clarify this: I think we should fight illegal immigration. But the article is garbage and not suited to form an educated opinion on that topic.