Saturday 7 August 2010

Be Careful What You Ask For…

…because when you get it, you might not like it:
Immigration officials charged with carrying out the government's pledge to end the detention of children in immigration centres have launched a scheme designed to deport them and their families from the country within weeks.
Ha!
The move dashes expectations of a more liberal alternative to child detention.
Good!
Families with children facing removal are to be given a two-week ultimatum to leave the country voluntarily, according to a document seen by the Guardian.

If they fail to go they will be told they will be deported "at some point" within the next two weeks, sometimes without being given a specific date or time to get ready.
Naturally, this has brought the fakecharities and other parasites crawling out of the woodwork to protest this interference in their living:
The Refugee Council said last night it would be extremely concerned if families were given only two weeks to leave the country when they may have been in Britain for many months or even years.
Well, indeed. If I were them, I’d be pretty upset to see my regular meal ticket disappearing on a plane, perhaps never to return…
"Families must be fully informed of their options throughout the asylum process," said Donna Covey of the Refugee Council. "At the end of the process, it is imperative that families have enough time to access legal advice to ensure that they will be safe on return, and they can settle their affairs, and, importantly, prepare their children to leave the country. Many of these families will have a well-founded fear about returning to a country where there is conflict or human rights abuses, and we must ensure that they can return safely and in dignity. The welfare of children involved in any return must be paramount."
Which is one long whine that the British public voted for an alternative approach to the one preferred by Ms Covey and it’s just not faaaaaaiiir that they appear to be keeping that promise.
But the UKBA document, leaked to Socialist Worker, suggests that boosting the removal rate, rather than humanitarian considerations, is the priority for ministers.
And for the public, who are sick to death of seeing the money wasted on pointless legal challenges championed by the likes of the Refugee Council with the intent of prolonging the removal process.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

'Many of these families will have a well-founded fear about returning to a country where there is conflict or human rights abuses'

Yep, plenty of conflict and human right abuses here as well, now just piss off.
I understand this 'charity' has its Government aid taken away from it. At last.

dr cromarty said...

Here's how it works. There's a delay in deporting people who quite clearly should be deported (most recently a woman and her daughter in Glasgow going back to Malawi where she feared domestic abuse. TIP: don't move in with a wife beater. Heaven knows it's not like there aren't any in Glasgow - so why should this be grounds for asylum?)

The daughter is photogenic and quite clearly liked by her classmates. She appears on the front of the papers with her chums from school saying how Scottish she is now. She only got to be that Scottish by exhausting the appeals process. The fakecharities string out the appeals process and the media pressure to the point when the girl probably is more Glaswegian than Malawian but purely because the process was strung out for so long.

Bucko said...

Good news. Send the buggers back. Britain is full.

English Viking said...

I don't know about sending them back (Oh alright, you've twisted my arm) but why let them in the first place?

No papers? No entry.

Proven liar? No entry.

Passed through another country which is a signatory to the Asylum Convention? (This would mean just about everybody who applies in Britain because we are an island.) NO ENTRY.

JuliaM said...

"I understand this 'charity' has its Government aid taken away from it."

Yes! Was very glad to hear that.

"The daughter is photogenic and quite clearly liked by her classmates. She appears on the front of the papers with her chums from school saying how Scottish she is now. She only got to be that Scottish by exhausting the appeals process."

The progressives will try anything, anything at all, to subvert the legal system...

"...but why let them in the first place?"

Because our border security is a joke.