hmm it seems that we are soft touches when it comes to immigration, I heard about one countries policies on immigration eg. only take in people with proffesions we need eg. doctors lawyer and such
J.Man,
I have no problem with the UK's policy and rules on legal immigration, let's have anyone in who wants to work and earn a living if the work is there to be done (but don't try claiming any benefits until you have paid into the system for two years).
What does get my back up is the lack of control of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
The International Agreement on Asylum and the treatment of Asylum Seekers is such that anyone who is in danger of loss of life or limb from oppressive governments, is allowed to flee the tyranny and go and seek asylum in the
first safe country that they reach.
Using that principle, the only Asylum Seekers we should see are those who are in fear of the Governments of France, Belgium, Holand or Ireland. As none of those countries are really run by tyrants then we should be Asylum Seeker Free.
Anyone who turns up here seeking asylum is, in reality, an economic tourist who will have done the Thomas Cooks Tour through Europe before getting here, and so we are legally entitled to send them back to the last 'safe' country that they came from, namely France, and let them sort 'em out. Having travelled through lots of countries before arriving here, they will probably have no intention of taking up work for a living and will not be on the list of skills required to be classed as a legal immigrant.
All illegal asylum seekers and illegal immigrants should only be detained until the first available form of transport can be arranged to return then to the last country they came from. Forget all these lawyers making millions running appeals for them, and releasing them on a promise that they will come back to court in three months time.
Out of the millions of cows, bulls and bullocks in this country, DEFRA, The Government Department for Farming, can find just one of those animals with Mad Cow Disease and know exactly where it is, so why don't we put them in charge of finding all these missing illegal immigrants?
Or better still, Readers Digest can find you even after you have moved house four times (they know where Lord Lucan is) so we could set them up to find the Immigrants.
The above is my own opinion and is not the opinion of this web site forum.
dave