Miscellaneous -
Asylum Seekers
Tony
Blair has been overruled on plans to screen
asylum seekers before they enter Europe and to
send illegals home. Now, under the controversial
new EU Constitution, the UK could be forced to
accept quotas set by Brussels with no right of
appeal. Sir Andrew Green of Migrantwatch UK said,
“Britain is in grave danger of signing a
blank cheque on immigration and asylum and
handing control of this sensitive issue to
Europe. This would be a surrender of sovereignty
on a scale unknown in our history.” Sir
Andrew said Mr Blair had been defeated on all his
proposals to vet economic migrants and asylum
cheats. He added, “The Government are
keeping as quiet as possible on this subject, and
for good reason. The British delegation have been
ignored and we are now expected simply to sign up
to European laws which have not yet even been
drafted. When they are they will be subject to
majority voting and we will have less than ten
per cent of the votes. Laws governing the
protection of our borders and the right of
foreigners to enter and reside in Britain will no
longer be in our own hands.” Mr Blair has
struggled unsuccessfully to preserve an opt-out
giving Britain control over its own borders.
Council
bosses in Dudley, West Midlands, feared the
borough’s 500 refugees did not know what
benefits they were entitled to or the translation
services they could call on and wanted to appoint
a £25,000-a-year manager to help them. They
aimed to recruit a principal officer to lead an
asylum seeker “support team” to
co-ordinate help for families.
An
Algerian escaped in a wheelchair after being
brought to Britain for treatment. He was to have
two false legs fitted and then fly home but he
escaped as he was waiting in a wheelchair at
Glasgow Airport by distracting an interpreter who
was with him. He wheeled himself to a taxi rank
and was driven away. Police were called but the
Scottish Refugee Council confirmed the man had
lodged an appeal for asylum and is housed in
emergency accommodation.
A
High Court ruling that asylum seekers cannot be
deported if it would cause them stress means an
Afghan family sent back to Germany at a cost of
£30,000 may now be able to fly back to the UK.
Mr Justice Scott Baker ruled Farid Ahmadi, 33,
his wife Fariba, 25, and their two young kids had
been kicked out “as the result of an
unlawful act.” After hearing Mrs Ahmadi felt
“suicidal” and her children
“traumatised” he said they should have
been allowed to challenge deportation on the
grounds their mental health would suffer.
Health
officials are paying out £600,000 of
taxpayers’ money to upgrade a surgery for
just 800 asylum seekers who will be given support
staff and interpreters. At the same time almost
2,000 local patients have been told THEY have to
find other doctors. The conversion will cost the
equivalent of £750 for EACH asylum seeker, plus
the cost of all future treatment.
Asylum
seekers were kept warm in a fleet of luxury
coaches at a cost of £4,000-a-day — so they
didn’t have to queue in the cold.
Five
refugees given asylum after claiming they risked
being killed in Iraq RETURNED there on a fun trip
- paid by taxpayers money. The Kurds flew out at
Christmas and are now back living on state
handouts. Each receives £54 a week PLUS housing.
An
immigrant from the Ivory Coast, who entered
Britain illegally from France on a stolen
passport, was granted asylum because a witch
doctor had put a spell on him back in Africa.
Afghan
asylum seekers in Britain are being offered up to
£2,500 to help them to go home as part of a
six-month voluntary repatriation trial. The
immigration minister, Beverley Hughes, said
single people would be offered £600, and
families up to £2,500, to pay for the cost of
housing and to re-establish themselves back in
Afghanistan. The cash will be in addition to the
costs of the flights back which are to be
organised by the Home Office in association with
the International Organisation for Migration and
the United Nations high commissioner for
refugees. The scheme is expected to attract at
least 1,000 applicants and £800,000 has been set
aside to fund it. Those who are eligible are all
Afghan asylum seekers who are awaiting decisions
on their asylum claims or been given exceptional
leave to remain in Britain. Tens of thousands of
Iraqi asylum seekers in Britain were offered
voluntary repatriation packages including a
payment of up to £3,000 per family if they
returned home once the position in the country
has stabilised. Those who refused would
eventually face enforced repatriation. The Home
Office hoped that the removal of asylum seekers
to countries no longer deemed to be a risk to
their civilians would increase the chances of
meeting the target, imposed by the Prime
Minister, that the number of asylum applications
received by Britain would be halved.
Taxpayers were faced with a £120,000 bill —
for flying just 21 asylum-seekers home to
Afghanistan. Whitehall chiefs chartered a
390-seat Portuguese jet to deport the Afghans at
a cost of more than £5,700 a head. The Home
Office chartered the jet because there are no
scheduled flights to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, 20
Afghans and Iraqis a day try to sneak to Britain
from a “mini-Sangatte” that has sprung
up near Euro-star’s Paris rail terminal.
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