IMMIGRATION/THE WAR ON TERROR
As the issue of immigration dominates the election once again, the seriousness of it is revealed not only by the issue itself, but also by the manner of the debate.
Once again, there are queues of so-called asylum seekers in Calais, receiving their free food and hot soup as the French police watch on. The French police are not bothered about this as they know that the immigrants are on their way to England and so the French will be rid of them. The UK remains a magnet for illegal immigration and the immigration controls remain ineffective, even at a time of the pretended war on terror.
It is ludicrous to speak of immigration controls, let alone of a war on terror, when ports (including Dover) do not have 24 hour staffing by immigration officials (as has been revealed this week). It would of course be very nice if the illegal immigrants entered the UK on a 9 to 5 basis, but unfortunately they are more liable to turn up when they know that the immigration officials have gone home.
As if that is not bad enough, it has also been revealed this week that illegal immigrants who are caught with false documents are allowed into the UK provided that they promise to report back to the authorities within 48 hours for questioning and possibly deportation. This rule was introduced to reduce the workload on the immigration officers and also as a result of the lack of secure accommodation in which to detain the illegal immigrants.
Of course it would be jolly decent of the illegal immigrants if they did report back, but (surprise, surprise) hardly any of them do!
The UK is an international laughing stock. It is no wonder the immigrants (and terrorists) still keep coming.
The inevitable consequences of the UK’s farce of an immigration policy have also been revealed this week. Not only in the coverage of the tragic murder of a Special Branch police officer, Stephen Oake, but also by the fact that his murderer, Kamel Bourgass, was an illegal immigrant who had twice been turned down for asylum and should have been deported several years ago. But no effort had been made to see that he was deported.
Bourgass is an Al Qaeda terrorist who had exploited the facilities of the infamous Finsbury Park Mosque. Even after he had had his asylum application rejected twice, and after he had commenced his terrorist activities, he was arrested by police for shoplifting. The police making the arrest suspected he was an illegal immigrant, knew that he was using aliases, and had contacted the Immigration Service who did nothing. Bourgass was fined for shoplifting and then walked free.
The flat in which he was finally arrested and in which the murder took place was provided by the Islington Council’s Asylum Team. The total cost of his illegal entry into the UK, including the trials of him and his co-defendants and the police investigation, is estimated to be in excess of £40million. The cost of keeping him in jail continues.
As for his 8 co-defendants, they were all so-called asylum seekers. It is now expected that they will all be granted asylum in this country because of the terrorist charges which were brought against them. They are likely to be able to successfully claim that if they were sent back from whence they came that their own governments might take a less lenient view of their activities than the UK, and so they should be allowed to stay here on human rights grounds. Many of the co-defendants were using false passports and aliases.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives have had a kerfuffle after one of their candidates, Ed Matts, doctored a photograph of himself and Ann Widdecombe, changing the placards they were holding from being supportive of an attempt to prevent the deportation of an illegal immigrant family from Africa, to placards promoting ‘controlled immigration’ - which can mean just about anything. This demonstrates that large numbers of the Conservative Party remain in favour of mass immigration and are totally undependable as far as the immigration issue is concerned.
Meanwhile, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation hid the fact that Bourgass and his co-defendants were illegal immigrants, hid the details of their entry into the UK and, at least on one news bulletin, gave self-appointed Islamic activists the airtime in which to claim that Muslims were victims of discrimination. Given the circumstances, this is very much in bad taste, but is only to be expected from the BBC. Nevertheless, for the BBC to be peddling neo-communist politically correct propaganda can only help Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremists.
Once again, there are queues of so-called asylum seekers in Calais, receiving their free food and hot soup as the French police watch on. The French police are not bothered about this as they know that the immigrants are on their way to England and so the French will be rid of them. The UK remains a magnet for illegal immigration and the immigration controls remain ineffective, even at a time of the pretended war on terror.
It is ludicrous to speak of immigration controls, let alone of a war on terror, when ports (including Dover) do not have 24 hour staffing by immigration officials (as has been revealed this week). It would of course be very nice if the illegal immigrants entered the UK on a 9 to 5 basis, but unfortunately they are more liable to turn up when they know that the immigration officials have gone home.
As if that is not bad enough, it has also been revealed this week that illegal immigrants who are caught with false documents are allowed into the UK provided that they promise to report back to the authorities within 48 hours for questioning and possibly deportation. This rule was introduced to reduce the workload on the immigration officers and also as a result of the lack of secure accommodation in which to detain the illegal immigrants.
Of course it would be jolly decent of the illegal immigrants if they did report back, but (surprise, surprise) hardly any of them do!
The UK is an international laughing stock. It is no wonder the immigrants (and terrorists) still keep coming.
The inevitable consequences of the UK’s farce of an immigration policy have also been revealed this week. Not only in the coverage of the tragic murder of a Special Branch police officer, Stephen Oake, but also by the fact that his murderer, Kamel Bourgass, was an illegal immigrant who had twice been turned down for asylum and should have been deported several years ago. But no effort had been made to see that he was deported.
Bourgass is an Al Qaeda terrorist who had exploited the facilities of the infamous Finsbury Park Mosque. Even after he had had his asylum application rejected twice, and after he had commenced his terrorist activities, he was arrested by police for shoplifting. The police making the arrest suspected he was an illegal immigrant, knew that he was using aliases, and had contacted the Immigration Service who did nothing. Bourgass was fined for shoplifting and then walked free.
The flat in which he was finally arrested and in which the murder took place was provided by the Islington Council’s Asylum Team. The total cost of his illegal entry into the UK, including the trials of him and his co-defendants and the police investigation, is estimated to be in excess of £40million. The cost of keeping him in jail continues.
As for his 8 co-defendants, they were all so-called asylum seekers. It is now expected that they will all be granted asylum in this country because of the terrorist charges which were brought against them. They are likely to be able to successfully claim that if they were sent back from whence they came that their own governments might take a less lenient view of their activities than the UK, and so they should be allowed to stay here on human rights grounds. Many of the co-defendants were using false passports and aliases.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives have had a kerfuffle after one of their candidates, Ed Matts, doctored a photograph of himself and Ann Widdecombe, changing the placards they were holding from being supportive of an attempt to prevent the deportation of an illegal immigrant family from Africa, to placards promoting ‘controlled immigration’ - which can mean just about anything. This demonstrates that large numbers of the Conservative Party remain in favour of mass immigration and are totally undependable as far as the immigration issue is concerned.
Meanwhile, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation hid the fact that Bourgass and his co-defendants were illegal immigrants, hid the details of their entry into the UK and, at least on one news bulletin, gave self-appointed Islamic activists the airtime in which to claim that Muslims were victims of discrimination. Given the circumstances, this is very much in bad taste, but is only to be expected from the BBC. Nevertheless, for the BBC to be peddling neo-communist politically correct propaganda can only help Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremists.
posted by erc @ 5:10 pm
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