Immigration

I know, there do seem to be a lot of posts on immigration today. It's not planned but just the way the news seems to be falling today. Hopefully this will be the last...

It seems that "Immigration officers have been told not to deport foreign students who overstay their visas, unless they have broken other laws, a leaked memo reveals.
The Border and Immigration Agency memo, obtained by the Daily Mail, was written after the agency's head intervened to stop a student's removal last month...Mr Lindley wrote: "I am surprised that any of these cases have come sufficiently high within enforcement teams' priorities to merit such quick removal action." He said the policy on dealing with out-of-time applications was currently under review and asked that officers did not proceed with enforcing any student refusal cases unless "deemed to be a priority"... "John Tincey, of the Immigration Service Union, said the memo was "astonishing" and told 5 Live the main priorities were removing foreign national prisoners, followed by failed asylum seekers. He said: "In an ideal world the Home Office would have enough money and enough immigration officers to actually go after everybody who shouldn't be in the country. "But the Home Office estimates there are some 600,000 people in the country illegally - to look for those people we have less than 1,500 immigration officers, so basically priorities have to be set.""

Let's face facts, the Government have no idea how many people have entered the UK over the last 10 years, legally or illegally. The Government have no idea who they are, where they are or what they are doing - that's the people who have entered the country - I think the Government know who they themselves are, although I am less sure that they know what they are doing. The Government have no idea if these people are here to work or to commit crime. The Government have no idea whether these people are here to plot the death of UK citizens and other here or abroad. This Government are "an absolute shower".