





We are now in April. These families, these European
citizens, these fellow Christians, have had to sleep under
bridges, then had the police take from them, again, their
blankets, their clothes, their medicine, forbidding them to
sleep there because there was a baby with them. Now they must
sleep in groups of no more than three in the open streets,
under the rain. They are not allowed to work
because they do not have a legal address. They are constantly
fined, fines they cannot possibily begin to pay. Are
constantly ordered to return to Bucharest to have a stamp on
their documents, and the tickets for Romania cost 80 euro each
way. In Romania Social Assistance threatens to remove their
children, looked after by the grandparents, to place them in
orphanages with AIDS. Their only hope for the survival of
their children, forbidden work in both countries, is to beg.
April 2010