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...
Category: Immigration
British immigration “infiltrated by Ugandan agent”
In reading various reports about the situation of people being refused asylum despite having been raped, tortured or having other strong claims, the name Uganda seems (with hindsight) to have turned up again and...
Meeting the Queen and PM – but still being kicked out
Guardian: Downing Street guest faces deportation The Guardian and the Independent today reported on the bizarre story of Farhat Khan, a woman who fled to the UK on advice from a colleague at the...
Somali slashing and Syrian repatriation
The BBC programme Broadcasting House had a feature on the Somali community this morning, in reaction to the case of a girl being slashed by a Somali classmate, an orphan with a very low...
Deportations scandal: British citizen freed
The Guardian reported today that a British man of Bangladeshi origin who had been detained last month, pending deportation, has been released. This wasn't Saqib Almas, who is a British-Pakistani dual national, but an...
Dual national threatened with deportation
The latest twist in the sorry tale of the UK government's media-dictated crackdown on "foreign criminals" involves a British-Pakistani dual national, who did time for what his sister describes (in Socialist Worker, so far...
Crocodile tears for Ayaan
With Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s resignation after the exposure of her asylum grounds as largely false and her Dutch citizenship now in serious doubt, the hypocritical crocodile tears are beginning to flow in large numbers. Robert Spencer calls it “persecution”, the immigration minister Rita Verdonk “lamentable” and the politicians involved “despicable, black-hearted Dutch dhimmis” who “evidently want to take the greatest stateman they have produced in this age and send her back to Somalia and certain death”. Melanie Phillips talks of the Dutch being “in the throes of a pathological moral convulsion” and her downfall “a development that shames the Dutch people and should strike a chill throughout the rest of dhimmi Europe”.
Ayaan Hirsi jumps before she’s pushed
Belfast Telegraph: MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum (also here) A Dutch TV documentary has alleged that Ayaan Hirsi Ali told a number of lies in order to gain...
Anti-immigrant leader hires Polish builders
Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles – Sunday Times Via Conservative Home, how Roger Knapman of the UK Independence Party, which campaigned against increased immigration in 2005, referring to the "Labour government’s untenable excuse …...
Why the foreign prisoner scandal is worrying
This week the Government – and particularly the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke – became involved in a scandal involving the release of more than 1,000 “foreign criminals” without it being considered that they might...
BNP shamelessly lying in anti-immigration campaign
The Independent today had a major feature on the practice of the British National Party of lying about immigration in order to scare working-class white voters in east London into voting for them. Most...
Immigration lunacy watch: father kicked out to South Africa
BBC NEWS: Young father deported to S Africa What with all the young (mostly white) South African workers you might find working in various industries in this country, you’d think they’d let a black...
Mary Kenny on east Europeans
A warm welcome to anyone who surfed on in after seeing my link on Channel 4’s Origination page. The Times (a paper I don’t read often) published an article by Mary Kenny today (The...
Jew blasts Howard over immigration
I found this report on the Independent’s website today – an Iranian Jewish immigrant had a go at Michael Howard on a BBC phone-in show for stoking hostility to immigrants. The man involved was...
Immigration lunacy watch: Canadian blogger strip searched
Via Tzuredzuregusa, it’s reported that a Canadian blogger who was seeking to offer his blogging services to a US company was strip searched at the US border by immigration officials who apparently don’t realise...
Immigration lunacy watch
Every so often, I link to articles here on the UK’s idiotic asylum and immigration policies, and the side-effects which impact on ordinary people. The most recent is a family in Wales, in which...
Flaws in Tories’ new asylum policy
There is a feature in today’s Times (London) from a practising barrister outlining the flaws in the Tories’ recently announced immigration policy. Among them is the fact that the new policy would breach Article...