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    RIA Novosti
    October 21, 2004

    COSSACK LAND TO INTERN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?

    MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - Illegal immigration is rampant in
    European Russia's south. It is a bad headache for Alexander Tkachev,
    Krasnodar territorial governor. As he sees the matter, it takes
    filtration camps for aliens and stateless persons to deport illegal
    immigrants quickly enough. Vladimir Yeremin, recently appointed
    territorial top prosecutor, sees the governor's point, says the Novye
    Izvestia, major Moscow-based daily.

    The camps, each for 150 inmates, will appear all over the
    territory-in Krasnodar, Armavir, Tikhoretsk, and Temryuk on the coast
    of the Sea of Azov. Each camp will cater for a particular
    nationality. Ukrainians and Moldovans will be committed to the
    Temryuk camp, close to a Crimea-bound ferry, Armenian nationals to
    the Krasnodar, and Central Asians to several camps along the
    territory's eastern border.

    "The inmates will have decent conditions. We shall put them up in
    warm tents with stoves and plank floors. They'll be able to take a
    shower, share the guards' diet, and see the doctor when necessary.
    The camps will certainly need guards to keep local hoodlums off the
    premises-and, certainly, as trouble-shooters if, let say, inmates of
    the men's and women's quarters start a squabble between themselves,"
    says one Colonel Gubenko.

    The immigrants will be deported at their own expense or of local
    people who have invited them. "We hope ethnic communities will pay
    the fares. It's easy to expel, say, a Tajik or an Uzbek-we'll pack
    them off by bus to the Russian frontier in the Astrakhan Region
    nearby. But how about the Vietnamese? They'll need air tickets-reckon
    the fares!" reasons the police officer.

    The territorial police board set up a 400-strong immigration
    inspection force under its migration squad to supervise aliens and
    their employment throughout the Kuban country.

    More than 400 aliens have been deported from the Krasnodar Territory
    since the year's start, and close on 50,000 held administratively
    liable.
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