IMMIGRANTS

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An illegal immigrant who arrived in the UK as a stowaway and committed more than 20 offences will receive damages for false imprisonment. Lawyers for Joseph Mjemer successfully argued at a High Court hearing in London that he had been unlawfully held in Home Office custody while immigration officials tried to establish where he came from to deport him. Judge Stephen Stewart QC heard how Mjemer arrived in the UK on a ship in 2003 and claimed asylum. Over the next three years he was convicted of more than 20 offences, including property damage, dangerous driving and attempting to obtain property by deception, and given a number of jail terms.

Mjemer had also used at least five aliases and variously claimed to be British, Italian, Moroccan, Algerian and stateless. In 2007 he was taken into "administrative custody" because officials feared he would disappear if freed, the court heard. The judge ruled that the detention had been lawful for most of that period, but it had been illegal for the past four months because attempts to establish Mjemer's nationality had faltered and there had been no realistic prospect of deportation. Lawyers told the judge that Mjemer would be freed in the next few days.

He would be fitted with a monitoring tag, have to live at an address in West Drayton, London, and be made to report regularly to a police station while Home Office investigations into his country of origin continued. The judge said he thought there was a low to moderate risk of Mjemer being violent, a moderate risk of him reoffending and moderate to high risk of him absconding. A hearing to establish how big a damages payout Mjemer is entitled to is scheduled to take place later in the year. (Source: The Sun, May/11)

Government figures on the levels of European Union immigration into Britain have been exposed as a pack of lies. Observers can now rightly ask on what other immigration-related topics have similar lies been told? Government figures have claimed that nearly half the 1.5 million Eastern Europeans who entered Britain from the A8 countries following the expansion of the EU have already returned home. The Government further claimed that this reverse flow had increased with the onset of the recession, a statement which was widely reported by the controlled media in an attempt to downplay the significance of the EU expansion and its consequences.

However, a new study released this week by the Warsaw Centre for International Affairs (WCIA), revealed that all this was a pack of lies. The CIA’s Professor Krystyna Iglicka said she had seen “no evidence” of this reversal immigration flow. The number of workers from other A8 states still in Britain pushed this figure higher still. She told the BBC’s Today programme that official estimates for Poles working abroad rose consistently until 2008, when they fell only very slightly. She said, “From our side this is not true. We do not see them here; we do not see them in any other different countries.”

She also said figures from 2008 showed only 22,000 former emigrants returned to Polish labour offices, in order to transfer benefits earned abroad. Sir Andrew Green, of think tank MigrationWatch was quoted as saying, “Even the minister’s own estimate is 10 times the number the Government said would come from the whole of Eastern Europe when they opened their borders to the new member states of the EU. But the Poles are a distraction from the impact of mass migration for our country. Only 10% of the foreign-born population in the UK were born in these Eastern European countries.”

Up to 1.5 million people came to the UK from the so-called A8 countries, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, after they joined the EU in 2004 and gained access to the British labour market. Earlier, a report commissioned by the Race Gestapo Equality and Human Rights Commission found that EU expansion has significantly impacted upon the ability of British workers to find employment. (Source: BNP, Jan/10)

Schools are being forced to take up to 65 new Eastern European children every day after the numbers arriving in the UK increased by 40%. Experts said the youngsters, who have little or no English, were placing enormous strain on the already stretched education system. Figures compiled by the Home Office reveal 4,200 children were brought from the former Eastern Bloc to Britain by their parents in the first three months of this year.

Schools have no option but to devote thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours trying to bring the newcomers up to the same standard as British youngsters. David Green, director of the Civitas think-tank, said, "We do not have the capacity to cope with these numbers, but it is not possible to stop people from coming, so schools have to do the best they can. This must be having a detrimental effect on schools."

The first of the 630,000 Poles and other Eastern Europeans to arrive largely came alone, or with friends. But, now it has been established that free education, as well as generous child tax credits, are on offer, significant numbers of young children are now arriving for the first time. Local authorities said they had not been prepared for the influx, and are not receiving the funding they need to cope with large numbers of additional children. (Source: Daily Mail, May/07)

Senior immigration officer James Dawute, under investigation over claims he offered to help a teenage asylum seeker with her application in return for sex, was himself an illegal immigrant. He originally entered Britain legally as a visitor from Ghana in the 1980s, but then stayed on after his visa expired. A Home Office source said, "He has a dubious immigration history but is apparently here legally now. What appears to have happened is that he arrived here legally, probably from Ghana, and then overstayed." And that makes it legal? (Source: Mail on Sunday, May/06)

A secret Home Office document orders that all refugees must be given homes within AN HOUR of a request, and must immediately be provided with doctors and dentists. Meanwhile British taxpayers who foot the bill are shunted to the back of the queue. The document, a contract with a firm providing care for immigrants on behalf of the Government, is stamped Confidential and is covered by the Official Secrets Act. The Home Office lays down strict guidelines on the level of home comforts refugees must get. For instant, all accommodation must have a cooker, fridge, utensils, crockery, towels, a sink or bath, a bedroom per person with a duvet, linen, drawers and lockable wardrobe.

A Home Office insider said, “Every illegal immigrant is treated like a VIP. We have to pull out all the stops to make sure they are comfortable and well looked after. It has got to the point where asylum seekers are treated better than many people who have lived in this country for years. No one would begrudge them shelter, but why are they being treated better than residents? It can take up to four years to find if their asylum application is successful. In the meantime the taxpayer is left to pick up the tab. When a stowaway arrives in Britain they know they are home and dry. As long as this gravy train continues you can bet that the flood of asylum applications will also continue.”

More than 16,000 illegal immigrants applied for asylum in the UK between January and March 2003. The Home Office uses the Government-funded National Asylum Support Service to find accommodation while applications are being considered. NASS in turn gives lucrative contracts to companies like Rose Lodge, Clear Springs and Adelphi Hotels Ltd. A 200-page contract between NASS and Adelphi Hotels drawn up on April 7, 2000, outlines in detail how asylum seekers, described as “service users”, must be treated.

Section 7.5 states - “Upon an Accommodation Request being made by telephone, the Provider will make an Accommodation Proposal by telephone within one hour if the request is made between 9am and 4pm on a working day, or by 10am on the following working day if the request is made after 4pm.” The firms must also treat the asylum seekers with the utmost care. The contract states: “This is one of the most important elements of the dispersal programme. To be sent to a strange town can be unsettling.”

The document goes on - “The Provider will facilitate registration of the Service Users with a local GP and dentist. The Provider will make immediate arrangements to cater for Service Users who need immediate health care.” A Home Office insider added, “If firms like Adelphi Hotels fail to meet such high standards they face hefty penalties and may even lose their contracts. Adelphi deals with well over 10,000 asylum seekers at any time so the figures involved are huge. The cost of providing such a high standard of care is passed on to the taxpayer.” Adelphi Hotels Ltd, based in Hove, East Sussex, is one of 11 private landlords that find accommodation for asylum seekers.

The firm, which employs 55 staff, houses the immigrants in B&Bs, hostels, hotels and private houses all over the UK. Company accounts for the firm in the year ending 2000 showed a gross profit of £184,000. But a year later the Adelphi gross profit rose to £1,367,000. Owner Michael Holland and his wife Nina have a £700,000 property in Brighton.

The cost to the NHS of treating asylum seekers and other immigrants with infectious diseases could be more than £1 billion for each year's arrivals. Research by think tank Migrationwatch says the number of cases could run into tens of thousands. The infections of particular concern are Aids, the hepatitis viruses B and C and tuberculosis, it said. These diseases represent specific, previously uncommon infections which, in some sending countries, are much more prevalent than in the UK, it said.

"The potential cost to the NHS is enormous in both financial and staff terms," said Roger Williams, professor of hepatology at University College, London. "It is absolutely essential that firm action be taken to prevent any further increase in this growing pool of potential infection. Furthermore, even a fraction of the money spent in the UK would treat a far larger number of patients in their own countries." The authors multiplied the incidence of these diseases in the sending countries by the number of migrants from them to get an approximate measure of the likely number of cases arriving in Britain, the organisation said.

For Aids patients, it has been estimated that modern anti-viral therapy costs at least £15,000 a year, while for hepatitis B and C the cost of annual therapy is £10-12,000, Migrationwatch said. A Department of Health spokeswoman said, "Access to the NHS is based on residence in the UK. A person who has made a formal application for permission to take refuge in the UK is exempt from charges for any NHS treatment received." Shame it doesn't also apply to native Britons.