Ex-soldier facing expulsion over 2010 fight
BBC News – Fijian-born soldier Isimeli Baleiwai fights to stay in UK (also at Channel 4 News) Isimeili Baleiwai served in the British army for 13 years, seeing action in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Iraq...
Category: Immigration
New immigration rules: targeted at Asians, again
Stark choice under new immigration rules: exile or family breakup | UK news | The Guardian After the fiasco of the raised age limit for non-EU spouses (it was set at 21, ostensibly to...
Press attitudes and bureaucratic nightmares
Teenager who doesn't exist: Birth certificate blunder in Spain means British girl can't get passport or even a bus pass | Mail Online The above report is about a young girl who was born...
Calls for apologies for 1970s virginity tests
The Guardian have been running various stories lately over files released which show the extent of virginity tests which were being carried out on Asian brides, either on arrival at Heathrow or before they...
How UK immigration treats young torture victims
Yesterday I watched a programme about the extent the British immigration “services” will go to get rid of child and teenage refugees. It told the stories of three cases, a family from Iran in...
Two examples of UK immigration madness
A tale of two stories (about which I hope I’m wrong) | Minority Thought The two stories are about two people, a man from Jamaica who moved here in the 1960s with his father,...
Another victim of the “foreign criminals” media scandal
It was reported in the Guardian today that a story released by the Home Office and G4S (formerly Group 4 Security, a contractor which handles deportations of failed immigrants to the UK) about how...
Seize their buildings
Earlier today I watched the Dispatches programme, Britain’s Secret Slaves (in the UK, you can watch it on their 4oD service), about the mistreatment of domestic workers in the UK. The first half, roughly,...
Let in immigrants, get extremists
This is something I got through a tweet from 5CC or Tabloid Watch, but Osama Saeed jogged my memory about it. An election campaign card which was used by Phil Woolas during his (successful)...
She ain’t heavy …
Yesterday William Peace AKA Bad Cripple commented on a recent case in Canada in which a French family were denied permanent residency because they have a daughter who has cerebral palsy (and, according to...
British immigration separate mother and daughter for 7 years
Asylum seekers speak: 'Nothing can give us back the last seven years' — from today's Guardian This is the story of how a woman who had fled persecution, including rape, in Uganda after being...
Boo hoo! Anti-Muslim social engineering rules hit white couple
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Enforced marriage law forces couple apart This is the story of a couple consisting of a British man and his Canadian bride, who married quite legally in...
The obsession with foreign prisoners returns
Last week, the popular obsession with kicking out foreign prisoners returned, when a prison service memo stating that officials have no interest in deporting foreigners jailed for less than a year came to light,...
Panic stations at St Pancras
Comment is free: Panic stations Christian Wolmar (British railways commentator) on the ridiculous security arrangements at the new St Pancras railway station in London, the terminal for trains to Paris: St Pancras, which reopened...
Response to Sayeeda Warsi on the BNP
Pickled Politics: Sayeeda Warsi and the BNP I thought someone would write a cogent reply to Sayeeda Warsi's interview in yesterday's Independent on Sunday, in which she claimed that the BNP have some legitimate...
Chindamo judgement reawakens “foreign prisoners” issue
This afternoon a British judge accepted an appeal by Learco Chindamo, who as a 15-year-old delinquent killed a head-teacher who had come to the aid of another teenager whom his gang was attacking, against...
Stupid visa rejections exposed
BBC NEWS | Politics | ‘Ridiculous’ visa rulings set out The independent monitor of the UK visa service has published a report which outlines some of the stupid reasons why foreigners are refused visas...
“Something remarkable” happening in Glasgow
Guardian Unlimited: Something remarkable Robina Qureshi on what you might not hear about the situation in Glasgow vis-a-vis the resettled asylum seekers: the fact that the community has rallied around them, to the extent...
Another victim of Britain’s press-driven immigration policy
The BBC is reporting that there was a protest today in Glasgow today against the intended removal of a Ugandan asylum-seeker who was seized when she went for her routine signing-on last Monday. The...
Foreign drivers and safety
This morning on Radio 5 Live, the BBC’s AM rolling news/discussion station, they were discussing the topic of whether immigration was good for “your wallet” or not, a somewhat inflammatory topic inspired by yet...