Switzerland to vote on Deporting criminals

[Budget Player Cadet_]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11847113

Voters in Switzerland will go to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit crimes.

Supporters of the proposal claim immigrants to Switzerland are disproportionately responsible for crime and should not be allowed to stay in the country.

The proposal is the initiative of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, the party which also masterminded last year's successful campaign to ban the building of minarets in Switzerland.

The People's Party points to the fact that foreigners are overrepresented in Swiss jails - about 70% of the inmates are foreign, while 23% of Switzerland's overall population is foreign.

"We have in Switzerland two kinds of foreigners, the foreigners who want to work and respect our laws, and these foreigners are welcome," said Patrick Freudiger, a member of the youth branch of the People's Party.

"Then we have other foreigners who commit crimes, who don't want to work," he added.

"They just want to benefit from our social security, and these people should be made to leave."

The proposed new law envisages automatic deportation, with no right of appeal, for foreigners who commit a wide variety of crimes, ranging from murder and ****, to breaking and entering, drug dealing, and social security fraud.

Just the first bit of the article... WTF switzerland?

 

[Pluvia]

The minarets bit that they passed is a bit harsh but I don't know why that's included in this article as it has nothing to do with it.