{"id":686,"date":"2006-06-06T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/06\/06\/deportations_scandal_british_citizen_freed"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:59:07","slug":"deportations_scandal_british_citizen_freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/06\/06\/deportations_scandal_british_citizen_freed","title":{"rendered":"Deportations scandal: British citizen freed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian reported today<\/a> that a British man of Bangladeshi origin who had been detained last month, pending deportation, has been released. This wasn't Saqib Almas<\/a>, who is a British-Pakistani dual national, but an un-named person who is 29 years old and has lived here since he was four, and was given citizenship. The paper also reports that five more British nationals are in this situation, including a fifteen-year-old.<\/p>\n

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The callous stupidity of British immigration policy was shown in this letter, from a Home Office jobsworth to the man concerned:<\/p>\n

\n"The secretary of state has concluded that in the light of the seriousness of your criminal offence your removal from the United Kingdom is necessary in a democratic society for the prevention of crime and for the protection of health and morals.
\n"It is noted that your family originate from Bangladesh, and therefore if any members of your family wish to continue a family life with you, there is no apparent reason why they could not return with you to Bangladesh."
\nThe letter continued: "Although you state that you have lived in the United Kingdom since the age of four years, the secretary of state does not consider it to be unreasonable to expect you to be able to readjust to life in Bangladesh."\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Home Office's attitude to the situation of British nationals is telling:<\/p>\n

\nThe Home Office said: "We would not seek to remove anyone with British citizenship. However there are circumstances where an individual subject to removal or deportation proceedings, claiming to be a British citizen or to have an entitlement to British citizenship, may be required to provide supporting evidence of this in order to prevent removal from the UK."\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question is how British nationals get rounded up as part of a program to kick out criminal foreign nationals? Perhaps they find someone with an "obviously foreign" name and assume he or she is not a British citizen, even though substantial communities of people of such origins exist in this country.<\/p>\n

Another casualty of this scandal, Ernesto Leal, was released on bail last Friday<\/a>, although deportation proceedings continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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