Well done Joseph Calleja for your letter Immigrants at Ghadira (TMID, 10 February). I wholeheartedly agree with everything you say.

I would like to add something to the sentence: “If these people don’t like being in detention camps, then they shouldn’t come to Malta.” There are many immigrants who seem to congregate in a certain area of Valletta, and all have state of the art mobiles and are well dressed. So why don’t they go down the legal route?

While on the subject how come the Italian spotter plane always notifies Malta that they are “there”? Why don’t the Italians go pick them up (they saw them first)? Is it a ploy by the big EU countries to undermine the smaller ones?

The presence of so many irregular migrants is a drain on the small countries. Why should the bureaucrats in the larger countries tell the smaller ones who and how to accommodate these people?

I am, as I said in my last letter, an immigrant in Malta. I paid my own fare to get here and own my apartment. I do not get free phone calls or free internet so why should these people? To me they do not look destitute (can’t be if they have the money to pay someone to drop them off within reach off Maltese shores) nor do they look ill-treated. So can someone please explain to me why the grass is looking greener here than in their very own country?

They don’t want to be here; we don’t want them so the EU should play fair and take some of the immigrants or else help to repatriate them.

Pam Crawford

St Paul’s Bay