{"id":665,"date":"2006-05-23T19:28:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/dual_national_threatened_with_deportation"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:12:20","slug":"dual_national_threatened_with_deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/dual_national_threatened_with_deportation","title":{"rendered":"Dual national threatened with deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest twist in the sorry tale of the UK government&#39;s media-dictated crackdown on &quot;foreign criminals&quot; involves a British-Pakistani dual national, who did time for what his sister describes (in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistworker.co.uk\/article.php?article_id=8900\">Socialist Worker<\/a>, so far the only newspaper to report this) as &quot;minor offences&quot;, being served by a court with a deportation order and taken to Harmondsworth detention centre:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LENIN'S TOMB: The wrong kind of British\" href=\"http:\/\/leninology.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/wrong-kind-of-british.html\">LENIN&#39;S TOMB: The wrong kind of British<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is a telling paragraph, however, which suggests that the order is a mistake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThey gave him a document saying that they want to deport him to Pakistan because he has no ties in Britain and he has a criminal record.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later on, the sister informs us that their &quot;grandfather was invited to live here after he fought for the British in the Second World War&quot;, which hardly constitutes &quot;no ties&quot;.  My suspicion is that, contrary to the suggestion by the author of the Lenin&#39;s Tomb post that &quot;someone noticed that Saqib had dual nationality&quot;, that nobody in fact noticed this and that the order will be overturned as soon as the mistake is noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody should underestimate the callousness and incompetence of this government, however; there is currently a Chilean named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofernesto.org.uk\/\">Ernesto Leal<\/a> fighting expulsion, having lived here for nearly 30 years having fled the Pinochet dictatorship (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavpolitics.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/it-is-wrong-to-send-someone-back-to-a-country-where-they-would-face-death\/#comment-5559\">this comment<\/a> I made on another blog).  Mr Leal served 18 months of a sentence of three and a half years for injuring someone in a pub fight.  Apart from the fact that this sort of offence is not the sort of thing that merits expulsion from a country where one has lived for nearly thirty years, these idiots first tried to deport him to <em>Jamaica<\/em>, to which he has no connection whatsoever.  Before long one might expect anyone with a foreign sounding <em>name<\/em>, never mind a foreign passport, to be in danger of deportation.<\/p>\n<p>(Osama Saeed has two posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2006\/05\/dual_nationalit.html\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2005\/12\/warning_to_ever.html\">[2]<\/a> about this issue; Brett at Harry&#39;s Place notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2006\/05\/23\/the_prisoners_of_zenda_or_somewhere_foreignsounding.php\">tiny recidivism rate<\/a> of these foreign convicts &#8211; 2% of those released since 1999.  He cites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1953079,00.html\">this Times report<\/a>, according to which more than 60% of &quot;young male thugs and muggers&quot; reoffend within two years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest twist in the sorry tale of the UK government&#39;s media-dictated crackdown on &quot;foreign criminals&quot; involves a British-Pakistani dual national, who did time for what his sister describes (in Socialist Worker, so far&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42445,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/42445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}