Gypsies

Back in the day when television was worth watching Second City Television used to do a couple of bits with John Candy in which he made comments that stated that Gypsies were no damn good. To put it succinctly, Candy would say something like, "Gypsies? Phhht!."
We hear at the Manor used to spend a lot more time playing three cushion billiards as a parlour in Bellflower than was good for us. At the same parlour there used to be a group of Gypsies who were always looking for the main chance. In fact, this writer recalls an incident when a Gypsy tried to abscond with your faithful correspondent's custom billiards cue by pretending that he thought it was a house cue.
Here's the deal, from the Manor. Not all Gypsies are crooks. Some of them are honest and Christian people. But a lot of them conform to the stereotype.
France, having finally come to its senses, has decided that the Rom (or Gypsies) who have been sneaking into La Belle France, are not a addition to the nation and have decided to kick them back to Romania. where they cannot get as rich from thievery and prostitution as they have gotten in France.
As can be expected, the unthinking and the liberal who do not have to suffer the depredations of said Rom, have mounted protests to prevent the re-patriation of the Rom to their home nation. But some people will allow the existence of rapists and child molesters as long as said perverts are not in their neighborhood. Liberalism is easy as long as the liberalism is not in one's neighborhood.
John Derbyshire, in this article, addresses the matter of Gypsies in England. It's a long article, but hang in there. And then ask yourself if you want neighbors like those he describes:
August Diary - Article - National Review Online