

Priest Nicolae Ganga (c.), a member of Romania's Roma ethnic minority, baptizes a child during a very rare mass Orthodox baptism ceremony at a church in the Bora neighborhood in Slobozia, 81 miles east of Bucharest November 29, 2012. The Roma people make up the biggest ethnic minority in the European Union, most of them from countries like Romania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. There are an estimated 10 million across Europe and one in five lives in Romania. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
Miguel Begin, the chief of operations for the Canada Border Services Agency's Stanstead sector, stands at the Canadian port of entry in Stanstead, Quebec, Nov. 14, 2012. On Dec. 5, 2012 Canadian immigration officials said a Romanian smuggling ring has been bringing Gypsies into the US through Mexico in order for them to eventually gain asylum in Canada. Toby Talbot/AP
An artist dances at a music parade on the street during Khamoro 2008, the World Roma Festival, in Prague, May 29, 2008. Petr Josek/Reuters
Bulgarian Roma women react as an excavator demolishes their house in a Roma suburb in the town of Maglizh, some 161 miles east of Sofia, Bulgaria, September 25, 2012. Municipal authorities demolished some 30 illegally built shacks and houses in the suburb. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
General view of daily life inside an illegal camp of travelling people in Indre, near Nantes, western France, July 30, 2010. President Nicholas Sarkozy ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travelling people and Roma across France, as part of a 'war' on crime and urban violence which has alarmed some rights groups. Some 10,000 Roma were expelled from France in one year alone. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
A Romanian Gypsy man looks out of his wagon as waking up before his caravan starts a new journey, May 23, 2003, near the central Romanian village of Blajel. Bela Szandelszky/AP
A Romanian ethnic Roma woman leaves a polling booth in Sintesti, near Bucharest, June 10, 2012. Romanian voters went to the polls in the first electoral test of the ruling leftists since they came to power on a wave of discontent over austerity measures in the European Union's second-poorest economy. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
A Bulgarian Roma uses a cart and horse to transport the chassis of an old car near the town of Targoviste east of the capital Sofia, Oct. 7, 2007. Many Roma people from the rural areas in the Balkan country survive by scrap iron selling. Petko Momchilov/AP
A Romanian Gypsy carries a banner during a march in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 20 2006. Romania's Gypsy community and activists called on the dominant Orthodox Church and the government to issue a formal apology for holding them slaves until 1856, as they celebrated 150 years since they were freed from slavery. Banner reads 'Different but Equal.' Vadim Ghirda/AP
People light candles during a commemoration to pay tribute to the six victims of a series of deadly attacks against Roma or Gypsy people in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 23, 2012. It was the third anniversary of the murder of a father, 27, and his son, 5, by a gang of four racists who killed six Roma people in one year till their arrest in August 2009. Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI/AP
A man carries his belongings and his dog as he leaves a Gypsy camp to be evacuated and demolished in Rome, Italy, Sept. 9, 2010. Angelo Carconi/AP
Gypsies are seen aboard a bus during the evacuation of Gypsies from the village of Gyongyospata, eastern Hungary, April 22, 2011. Roma leaders say they evacuated 277 women and children from a village in Hungary because a far-right vigilante group was setting up a training camp near their homes. Bela Szandelszky/AP
Members of Romania's ethnic Roma minority arrive at Bucharest airport August 9, 2012. Roma people arrived in Romania after French police raided a makeshift Roma camp, evicting about 200 people as the Socialist government quietly follows the former conservative administration's policy of repatriating illegal immigrants. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
A French soldier carries a Romany baby boy as he is transferred with his family by the French forces to a Serb-populated zone in the Mitrovica region June 20, 1999. The gypsy population are considered to side with the Serbs and are being moved out of the ethnic-Albanian areas for their safety. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Safta Marin, 88, a Romanian Roma who survived World War II deportations watches during an event at the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Jan. 27, 2011. About 11,000 Romanian Gypsies perished during the deportations in the Dniestr region 65 years ago, according to the International Committee for the Study of the Holocaust, a panel of historians. Vadim Ghirda/AP