Wednesday 9 January 2019
Lethal Fiasco
Some Iranians claiming asylum in the UK have already been refused it in France, BBC News (8 January). 50% are granted asylum here and another 25% get it on appeal. We weren't told if the remaining 25% were deported. Nor why the French hadn't deported failed asylum seekers. For the authorities, it's easy to do nothing. Presumably the TV Reporter assumed as much and didn't ask. While that News was being broadcast yet another teenager was being stabbed to death in London. Immigration has caused lawlessness (clearly condoned by authorities) as well as the Brexit fiasco. 40 years ago Mrs Thatcher promised to curb immigration. But she didn't keep her 1979 promise to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. With the result that some 400,000 men and their children live here. Also, within weeks of being elected in May 1979 Mrs Thatcher allowed Vietnamese and Iranians to take up permanent settlement here. So they know that if they can't get away with living in France they can here. Which is strange, since the law is supposed to be international. And not applied differently in different countries.
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Why have immigration appeals? They are not required by international law. A successful appeal implies the original decision was wrong. So, in effect, one group of lawyers is saying to another "We know better than you!" What an insult. But these lawyers don't mind being insulted. They are on an endless gravy train. There is a serious imbalance to the appeal system: because if the first set of judges has wrongly decided in favour of the alien, there is no appeal available to Joe Public to oppose it. For a country obsessed with Equality that's a serious Inequality.
Brits abroad with immigration problems can't avail themselves of appeals. Appeals are a domestic issue; self-inflicted. Thousands of people are turned back at UK borders every year. In 2010 Chris Huhne MP said 30,000. So after a long and expensive trip you could wind up back in Oz with no right of appeal. It happens. While someone without a passport is let through UK Immigration and has appeals paid for by the British taxpayer.
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