Under an opaque policy condemned as discriminatory and “inhumane”, the government has refused dozens of visas for children of migrant single mothers, many of whom came to work in the NHS or social care, saying there are “no compelling reasons” to grant them.Do they really 'come to work in the NHS or social care', or do they come to get a foot in the door?
The women left their children – some as young as two – in the temporary care of relatives or friends while they moved to Britain from countries including Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, South Africa and India. Before leaving, they say, they had been reassured by their employers that their children would be able to follow, in line with current immigration rules permitting healthcare workers to bring close family members.
We are continually told the NHS needs these people, as workers. But are they workers, or the vanguard of an invasion?
In refusal letters seen by the Observer, the Home Office questioned why the children could not stay permanently with their grandparents or other relatives. In other cases, it said there was no reason why they could not go to live with their fathers, even though their mothers had sole custody or the fathers had not seen the children for years. Many of the letters, addressed directly to the children, conclude: “It was your mother’s personal decision to depart for the UK and you have not provided sufficient evidence to grant your visa on serious or compelling grounds.”
Yes, it was. She gambled. She lost.
Patricia Chinyoka, chief executive of the Women of Zimbabwe project, which is supporting many of the women, described the refusals as “absolutely appalling”. “Some of the women have supplied an amazing array of proof and then they still get a letter saying: ‘We don’t believe you.’ They have sold properties, left jobs – they’ve sold up and come here and this is what they are now faced with,” Chinyoka said. “They don’t know what to do.”
Go home to raise their families in their own countries.
Isn't a business model that relies on imported cheap labour a little suspect, morally?
ReplyDelete"the Women of Zimbabwe project"
ReplyDeleteBased in the UK
You could probably pay US fully qualified doctor rates for an actually qualified individual.
ReplyDeleteThe costs of the doubtless incompetence alone would probably justify this.
Add the costs of the associated flyblown, primitive parasites that seem to be required baggage!
And that assumes said parasites aren't reintroducing decades eradicated third world shitehole diseases!!
Isn't a business model that relies on 'strip mining' third world countries of their most able people also morally questionable
ReplyDeleteIf true it's rather clever of the NHS.
ReplyDeleteTell migrant workers they can come work here, until 2021 tax them more than UK workers doing the same job via the immigrant worker health surcharge, dangle the carrot of permanent residence for offspring, and then say no potato . Which is a proper root vegetable.
Don't trust the NHS is the moral.
Half the doctors are champagne communists who voted against the expansion of medical schools and half the rest think nicotine (in vapes) is a carcinogen. Worst organisation ever created. Worse than the worst serial killer.
Imv of course.
So, the single mothers come to the UK to work in the NHS, assuming their knowledge of English is enough to tell a 999 operator the difference between their patient is choking and their patient is sleeping.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, where are the fathers, unless they are currently in the middle of the Channel being 'rescued' by the Border Farce or RNLI Illegal Immigrant Collection Service?
After the children, including the 22 years old ones who claim to be 12, are allowed into the UK, accommodation has to be found for the reunited family, plus child care while the mother is working, plus the child benefit part of the Universal Credit, which will already he paying for that accommodation. School places will have to be found, at taxpayer's expense, and GP practices allocated.
I wonder how many more PTSD suffering ex military, mental health 'care in the community' patients, or homeless will be sleeping in shop doorways while all this is going on?
Oh what a paradise this country is turning into, though I'm already preparing by learning Urdu, Arabic, and Chinese. Hedging my bets, you see.
Penseivat
"Isn't a business model that relies on imported cheap labour a little suspect, morally?"
ReplyDeleteWell, indeed. Especially when, as Phil Day points out, it's denuding a Third World country of talent.
"Based in the UK"
Of course!
"And that assumes said parasites aren't reintroducing decades eradicated third world shitehole diseases!!"
Think how much more vibrant and diverse our experience of medical problems are now - TB, FGM, it's endless...
"Don't trust the NHS is the moral."
I don't know anyone who does, at least, after they've experienced it.
"School places will have to be found, at taxpayer's expense, and GP practices allocated."
The full bill for such should be presented to them to work off over the course of their lifetime.