Is there anything John Reid does know?
Posted on Friday, February 16th, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Departmental Administration, Immigration
We’ve known for a long time that the government doesn’t have a clue how many illegal immigrants there are in the UK. This makes a certain amount of sense - the whole point of being illegal is you try to stay out of the way of officials, even official statisticians.
But now John Reid claims he hasn’t the faintest idea how many people are in the country legally either, saying:
“It is not possible to say with accuracy how many legal immigrants are present in the country, because there is currently no means of counting those who leave the country of their own accord without informing the immigration authorities.”
OK, so it might not be possible to give an exact figure - but not even an estimate? Can they not make an educated guess? How are they going to get all these people to register for a biometric immigration document (aka foreign national ID Card) if they don’t know how many there are?
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March 3rd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
This is ridiculous - when I heard of a site on home office failings I had expected to find something blackening the home office for its inefficient and PATENTLY INJUST processing of assylum seekers. something which though common and glaring knowledge among all those with the faintest involvement with that area, seems yet to be totally un-known in the out-side world.
I had NOT expected a site that would add to the un-informed mindless pressure to cut down influx of immigrants at any cost.
did you know that when home office workers assess a claim for assylum they have the template for a rejection in front of them - which they aim to fill out by any possible means?
Did you know that the knowledge of the people assesing claims on applicant’s country is so shockingly impoverished and unspecialised - as to clash directly in many instances with the readily acessible information collected by the most widely respected NGOs (ie - amnesty international)?
and finally, that the burden of proof is totally with the assylum seeker? - that they have to prooveliterally beyond possible doubt that they are from the country they say they are from, that they did suffer what they claimed they have suffered, that their treatment was not an isolated incident, etc., etc. {ANY inconsistency between their accounts , no matter how trivial, will be held against them. They might be asked such questions as the insignia of the city taxis as proof of their origin - inspite of being from a rural location. If their report of their clashes with the corrupt government’s official statement on its practices, they will be disbelieved.}
the catelogue of absurdity is endless. rather then pandering to public phobia I recommend that you expose the real failings of the government and aim to redress its actual, not imagined failings. sorry to be so vitriolic, I just find the lack of celebrity that this horriffic system enjoys to be such a crying shame.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
As the government is incapable of handling efficiently anything to do with immigration and until a government can prove they have the required expertise to handle immigration we need a new law :
NO MORE IMMIGRATION