Would you come forward if you thought you'd be deported?

Have a bit of compassion. With what they've been through.

As for those needing housing, there's nearly 2000 empty properties in the borough...

According to Jonathan Prtes,writing in 2015:

"The last serious – although extremely rough – estimate of the number of people living in the UK illegally was made in 2009, which gave a range of between 420,000 and 860,000. These are the numbers most commonly quoted, although Migration Watch and the Daily Express routinely round the number up to a million.

Interestingly, even the lower estimates imply that there are several hundred thousand people living illegally in London and that figure may well be too high. A few years ago the Metropolitan police started checking the immigration status of everyone arrested in London.

They seemed to find immigration irregularities only for a relatively small proportion, perhaps 1%. So unless we believe that irregular migrants are remarkably law-abiding compared with both natives and legal immigrants, it may be that levels of irregular migration are much lower than previously thought.

Moreover, most people here irregularly didn’t come through the Channel tunnel. Most estimates suggest that at least 80% are people who arrived in Britain legally and then overstayed.

If it weren’t for migration, the EU’s working-age population would already be shrinking
The “typical” illegal immigrant is a Brazilian who came here on a tourist visa and decided to stay and make some money working in a restaurant; or an Australian who arrived on a working visa and is now a gym instructor. He or she is not an Eritrean who hid in the back of a lorry – who in any case is quite likely to have a valid claim for refugee status."

For some reason Hrolf's posts tend not to focus on Australians,for example,and the inappropriateness of their presence here.

No doubt from now on ,we will hear him pontificating regularly on the need to make a priority of harassing and deporting one of the main illegal immigrant groups....the Aussies...or are they "different"?

Edited by legaleagle (04 Jul 2017 7.29pm)

Because they were nearly burned or asohyxiated to death in a residential building that wasn't fit for purpose.

As for empty properties. If they ain't occupied for at least 80% of the year, tax the f***ers twenty percent of the property value. Homes should be for living in. Not commodities.

According to Jonathan Prtes,writing in 2015:

"The last serious – although extremely rough – estimate of the number of people living in the UK illegally was made in 2009, which gave a range of between 420,000 and 860,000. These are the numbers most commonly quoted, although Migration Watch and the Daily Express routinely round the number up to a million.

Interestingly, even the lower estimates imply that there are several hundred thousand people living illegally in London and that figure may well be too high. A few years ago the Metropolitan police started checking the immigration status of everyone arrested in London.

They seemed to find immigration irregularities only for a relatively small proportion, perhaps 1%. So unless we believe that irregular migrants are remarkably law-abiding compared with both natives and legal immigrants, it may be that levels of irregular migration are much lower than previously thought.

Moreover, most people here irregularly didn’t come through the Channel tunnel. Most estimates suggest that at least 80% are people who arrived in Britain legally and then overstayed.

If it weren’t for migration, the EU’s working-age population would already be shrinking
The “typical” illegal immigrant is a Brazilian who came here on a tourist visa and decided to stay and make some money working in a restaurant; or an Australian who arrived on a working visa and is now a gym instructor. He or she is not an Eritrean who hid in the back of a lorry – who in any case is quite likely to have a valid claim for refugee status."

For some reason Hrolf's posts tend not to focus on Australians,for example,and the inappropriateness of their presence here.

No doubt from now on ,we will hear him pontificating regularly on the need to make a priority of harassing and deporting one of the main illegal immigrant groups....the Aussies...or are they "different"?

Edited by legaleagle (04 Jul 2017 7.29pm)