Deportation....

[jon1968]

I've just seen a report on the local news (London tonight) about the arrest of street traders selling illegal DVD's etc.
It was stated that a lot of them are Chinese immigrants (I'm sure they'd rather not be doing it) but they cannot be deported because 'China won't take them back'........Eh ????!!
How does that work then, would someone care to explain?

[jon1968]

* that's illegal immigrants

[Lonnie]

I don't know about DVDs, but this country won't deport to another country, if it has the death penalty, make of that what you will,

[jon1968]

Maybe I didn't explain myself too well, these people are known illegal immigrants, but they can't be deported because their country of origin 'won't take them back'.
Why can't they just be sent back as they aren't claiming asylum? Surely that just means the only option they have is to work illegally here?
Why can't we force their country to take them back?

[Lonnie]

Sorry jon1968, it was me not reading your post properly, my fault.

Its a good chance for China to keep some undesirables out, knowing we have a goverment that will bend over backwards to appease.

[Oneeyedvic]

I haven't got time to check but I do recall that it has something to so with the Chinese provinces - and if tehy don't say which province they come from, the Chinese won't take them back.

Sorry can't be more helpful, but it may give you somewhere to start

[madein1978]

Watch yourself WM, you'll have the self righteous brothers after you!! I would have to agree that this is what most Illegals do when they're not becoming wouldbe terrorists! I'd better watch now, I'll be getting called a racist, we people that have a view on the world and don't choose to bury our heads often attract this tag.

[madein1978]

Although, I'm beginning to get a tougher skin and ignore the 'racist' labelers!

[rojash]

"but this country won't deport to another country, if it has the death penalty"

Completely wrong Lonnie. This country won't EXTRADITE to a country where the extradited person would face the death penalty for the crime for which extradition was requested.

[Lonnie]

Thars fair enough rojash, always willing to be corrected.

[sp1814]

What about not buying illegal DVDs in the first place.

No demand, no supply. End of story?

[sp1814]

Ward-Minter...but what if the non-white/immigrant aggressors were born here?

I abhor the murder of our policemen and women. We need every bobby on the beat to investigate the seemingly ever expanding number of paedophiles in this country (who, judging by photos in the press, are almost exclusively white).

Strange how offensive statistics can be when one twists them to suit one's own agenda?

[hugnie21]

In a nutshell...

When the UK Immigration Service are trying to remove (the word deport is no longer applicable) any illegal entrant to their country of origin, they have to work with the respective governments for them to accept that the illegal entrant is in fact a national of their country. (Lots of people lie about their nationality, I'd say I'm from the Bahamas if it meant I could be removed to there!) You can't just stick them on a plane without this agreement as they would just send them straight back again.

China is the most difficult because of the size of the population. The illegal entrant will obviously not want to go back so will give a false address. The Chinese government will do verification checks to see if that person is from that village/province. When the people who live there say "nope never heard of him!" the Chinese government think 'S*d it, we're overpopulated anyway so we don't want him back" and tell the UK Immigration Service that they can't find a trace of him. So we're stuck with them!!

[jon1968]

Thanks all, madness!!