The Unwelcome Guests
on 06/05/2006 at 07:57 AM
I have to say I am not entirely convinced by this. Certain countries are visa mandatory in Britain and other more trusted countries (Like the US, Canada, Australia etc.) are visa waiver. The US works the same way. British visitors, provided they aren’t criminals or are coming to work etc. are given a 3 month visa waiver when they enter the US. Our loopy government sets the time limit at six months???? Who can afford to be on holiday for six months? Apart from the French of course! I find it hard to believe that the US embassies (given my past experience in London) could ever dish out 5.5 million visas (at least not in my lifetime)As far as I know Mexicans are visa nationals for the US and they and other South Americans make up the majority of “illegals” so it seems to me a lot must have snuck across the border. That or your immigration controls are as useless as ours!
Guess what, LyndonB? Your last sentence is almost correct. Our “immigration controls” are practically non-existent. How else could 19 Arabs just waltz into the country on student visas, get flight training at our avation schools and then hijack four planes and crash three of them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Our immigration people don’t keep track of anyone - even after 9/11.
You could probably apply for a visa, come on over and disappear for the rest of your life here. Sad but true.
Skipper I agree the controls are not what they could be, though in Britain a lot of the blame lies with the “foreign office” they are the ones that dictate how long visa interviews should last, and they set limits on how many people are refused visas. On top of this we have human rights legislation to contend with. It’s probably the same in the US if someone cons their way into the country and overstays then if they are caught they get lawyers to fight the deportation.
I wouldn’t mind betting though that your immigration are more robust than ours when it comes to booting deadbeats out. Recently in the news here a Chief Immigration Officer of the immigration department was caught offering asylum to young females in return for sex
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2006/05/26/sex_for_asylum.html
and hard to believe but it turns out he was an overstayer from Ghana. I was shocked I tells yah!
Of course any criticism of the Home Office and we are labelled racist.
I knew about this problem as colleges don’t even bother checking on ‘foreign’ students and their visas (or if they are even attending classes, passing said classes, etc, etc, etc). It is disgusting that school systems, healthcare, public assistance, businesses, politicians and even ICE [or Immigration or whatever cutesy name they are calling themselves this week] does nothing to enforce American laws. Why bother passing new laws on the issue - no one is enforcing the ones we have now.
>I’m illegal, but I’m someone who is trying to help with my work< What crap, she came on a tourist visa, and stayed (legally) until she had an ‘anchor’ baby - now she doesn’t give a crap about the law, being legal or doing anything correctly. Some good values she is passing onto her son (illegal) and her daughter. . .
I’m sorry but these are not the kind of new citizens I want to ‘improve’ and ‘help’ my country. Go home and fix your own.
And oh by the way, 10 billion (yes, thats billion with a B)dollars are sent to Mexico by immigrants (both legal and illegal) - so explain to me why oh why is Mexico such a cesspool of poverty and unemployment?? I know, that money is going to line peoples pockets and give people the opportunity to buy cars and drugs - not to improve Mexico. Otherwise, there’d be no excuse for them to all ‘run to the border.’
It’s simple:
Build a wall (fence, mine field, whatever)
Deport anyone not able to prove with 3 legal, verifiable sources (not the 1 person to state yeah Jose’s been here for 5 years crap)
Stop yesterday the ‘anchor’ baby loophole
No Amnesty
No increase in the guest worker scam
No, no and hell no
What is so hard about all that?
06/05/2006 at 10:33 AM
