IMMIGRANTS

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An illegal immigrant has demanded to be flown home after saying he was fed up with British people, because they are "rude and unfriendly". Mokhtar Tabet, who has been given a home, food and free travel around London, claims his local council has breached his human rights by moving him to a place he does not like. He was refused asylum in 2004 and is set to be deported. He said, "The council evicted me from my home in September and moved me to Streatham, which I don't like. The new place is small, and the kitchen closes at 9pm, so I can't have anything to eat late at night. They have taken away my human rights."

He is perfectly free to return to Algeria at his own expense and admits that he "does not like it here", but he refuses to do so and says Britain will have to pay for his travel if it wants him to leave. He said, "I miss Algeria. The English people are not helpful, they are so unfriendly and rude. I thought I had made friends in Croydon, but when I ask them for money they don't give me it, so I know they can't be my friends." He gets £32 a week in vouchers from Croydon Council to buy food with while he awaits deportation but he whined, "Croydon Council only gives me food vouchers, they won't give me cash. I want the money. I have nothing to buy new clothes with. I want the council to give me a bigger flat and money instead of vouchers."

On top of that he suffers from diabetes, a retina disease and kidney failure and believes he should be allowed to stay in the country so he can continue to get free NHS care. (But doesn't he want to go back to Algeria because we are "rude and unfriendly"?). A spokesman from the Border and Immigration Agency said, "The period between an individual being refused asylum and their removal will vary from case to case depending on individual circumstances. He is being processed through our returning scheme." Tabet was refused asylum in 2004, it's now the end of 2007. Exactly how long does it take to deport someone?

Immigrants are being offered cash cards by Tuxedo Blue Diamond who are hoping to profit from a rush by workers to transfer billions of pounds out of the UK. Iranian-born Ali Sarikhani has set up the card for people without bank accounts who have money to send abroad to friends or family. Cash 'loaded' on to the cards will be accessible to duplicate cardholders in 900 locations across 100 countries worldwide. However, the launch of the scheme raises fresh doubts over the Government's claims that immigration boosts the country's gross domestic product by £4billion a year.

An annual £5.6billion worth of funds is transferred by immigrants out of the country, according to figures provided by the Department For International Development. Andrew Green, of MigrationWatch UK, said, "The main beneficiaries are the immigrants, who are able to send home about £10million a day, not the host nation. It is a loss when that money leaves and we have to buy foreign capital to make it up. Freedom of movement of capital is right and proper but it is a loss that is often overlooked."

The new cards will be sold on buses and even ferries as migrants enter the country looking for work. Tuxedo is investing £5.1million in the scheme, advertising across a range of ethnic TV channels and in publications across Asia and Eastern Europe as it targets the lucrative immigrant market. To set up a Tuxedo card, a UK-based customer need only provide a photocopy of a passport of any nationality. No bank account or credit check is required.

Migrants will be able to load their cards with up to £2,500 and then pay bills with the card, withdraw cash, send up to £200 a day abroad or order duplicate cards to be used for withdrawals by friends and family from cash machines abroad. Mr Sarikhani and his fellow directors hope to make money by selling the cash cards for £9.95 and charging up to £1.50 in the UK for cash machine withdrawals and £2.25 abroad. Purchases with the card have a 2.95% fee. (Source: Daily Mail, Mar/07)

The Labour Government planners are working on a figure of 5.5 million new houses to be built on over 1000 square miles of virgin countryside by 2015. When last in power the Tories planned for 4.4 million. Although the liberals do their best to avoid stating the obvious, it is the effect of mass immigration - legal, illegal and asylum seekers - that is destroying our country aesthetically. It is not a race problem, for in this instance it does not matter if they are black, brown, white or zebra-striped. One does not need to have a degree in statistics or economics to realise that the millions of immigrants that have poured into Britain over the past twenty years have to live somewhere.

Additionally, many ‘ethnic’ families are adding to the problem by their considerably higher birth-rate. Britain will need to build a MILLION new homes to cope with the flood of immigrants and that doesn't include housing for those who enter the country illegally. Eventually immigration will have “serious consequences” for the nature of British society, according to Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green who believes the estimated cost of building services to go with the new homes is a whopping £20billion. New roads, hospitals, schools and public transport will all be needed, and huge swathes of the countryside will be gobbled up.

House prices will continue to rocket as a result of shortages. Alarmingly the figures do not take into account the unknown number of illegal immigrants who will need accommodation. Sir Andrew, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said, “Continued immigration on this massive scale will have serious consequences for our quality of life and eventually for the whole nature of our society. The government has clearly failed to consider the huge costs of providing infrastructure when calculating the economic impact of migration.”

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 Migrationwatch believes 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. These diseases represent specific, previously uncommon infections which, in some sending countries, are much more prevalent than in the UK.

"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." The rest of us who have to pay towards NHS treatment should, perhaps, make a formal application to live here.

A drunk illegal immigrant whose car killed a schoolboy was jailed for just EIGHT WEEKS. Fury erupted as sentence was passed on Zambian Aaron Chisango, who is still in this country despite being refused British citizenship four times. Chisango, who had no licence and was uninsured, was 1½ times the drink-drive limit when his car hit 12-year-old Jamie Mason. The 27-year-old had downed a bottle of whisky the night before his car struck the lad crossing a road at 11.30am. Jamie died of head and internal injuries later the same day but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped a charge of causing death by careless driving against Chisango because of insufficient evidence.

He admitted the lesser offences of driving with excess alcohol and having no licence or insurance. He was jailed for two months by magistrates at Wolverhampton, West Midlands. But he is set to be released in days because he has already spent seven weeks locked up on remand. Chisango is then expected to continue his seven-year battle to stay in the UK. Prosecutor Nigel Reader told Wolverhampton magistrates Chisango was going only just over the 30mph limit and an investigation had failed to prove he was driving without due care and attention.

Bench chairman Michael Ager told Chisango, “This is a very disturbing and upsetting scenario of events. We have to deal with a charge of excess alcohol and that was aggravated by the fact that whilst you were driving in that state someone died.” Safety campaigner Carol Whittingham from SCARD, Support and Care in Road Death, stormed, “This is a disgrace. It is obscene that the family have not been able to get justice for their boy.” Chief Crown prosecutor David Blundell said, “West Midlands Police submitted a file of evidence to the CPS. A senior lawyer concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove Chisango had driven his car carelessly.”

Chisango arrived in Britain on a short-term visa but did not leave when it ran out. His application for indefinite leave to stay was refused but he has appealed repeatedly. He picked up unemployment pay for several months after completing a college course. A Home Office insider said, “He is entitled to stay in this country until the full appeals procedure is exhausted. In those terms we would not call him an illegal immigrant, he is an overstayer.” (Source: The Sun)

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