Texts to tell immigrants to go home

[Gromit]

Plans to text immigrants to remind them to go home when their VISAs run out. Has this story leaked out before April 1st?

http://itn.co.uk/news/255a84bc41d4a72c2e6cddbf 26921551.html

[mrrobbo15]

lol yeah u mayb right

isnt it amazing....

[dummkopf]

Makes this country look even more a 'laughing stock' !
Who comes up with these ideas ?

[vehelpfulguy]

See this, says Reid is going to clamp down on immigrants stealing our benefits and NHS services.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6424377 .stm

I love the way governments react so quickly.

We had illegal immigrants running under the channel tunnel even before labour came to power, so that is over 10 YEARS ago.

So only now do they start to do something about it.

I remember a Tory counciler knocking on my door about 12 years ago and asking for my support and I said if you do soemthing about asylum seekers and illegal immigrants I will vote for you.

I saw it was a problem way back then, how come our governments didnt.

[Theland]

Don't be so cynical you lot. The text messages will be in very bold type, and very frightening.

[SteveSxx]

Unless (wait for it) - the mobile phone number is incorrect - I mean - what happens if (shock horror) the immigrants have sold their phone/got a replacement phone / phone number.........
and who says that they all have mobiles anyway ?

[Theland]

Hey you're right! I never thought of that.
Maybe we should warn the Home Office?

[Oneeyedvic]

As per usual, there is a load of legislation / ideas going through that are a good thing.

Ideas include:

1) 'Watch list' of people not entitled to public services
2) Enforcement teams to track down bosses employing illegal workers
3) Compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals
4) Text alerts for people overstaying visas
5) Possible �20,000 fines for landlords housing illegal immigrants
6) Pilot schemes to use ID card data to ensure migrants pay for NHS care


but of course, lazy, cr*p journalism and typical knee jerk reactions from the usual people on here only see one minor idea.

[youngmafbog]

Fine, anything is better than nothing. But the crunch is have the Labour Government actually got the b*lls to remove then from the country if they ignore it?

Further, if someone stays but cant get work surely crime will beckon?

And what if they cant get housing, presumably some poor council will be stuck with housing them etc etc whilst they spend years arguing the toss.

All in all perhaps its just a waste of time until we get politicians who are not just full of hot air(irrelevant of party)

[sunnyday2d]

please tell me how the home office knows the phone
numbers of all illegal immigrants,
and is this the same home office that john reid described
as, NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
AS USUAL ITS JUST ANOTHER HEADLINE GRABBING
ILL THOUGHT OUT HAIR BRAINED IDEA FROM JOHN
F**kWIT REID.

[coco pops]

So someone decides to stay over their time limit , they get a text to remind them the date to leave the country is approaching , Anyone who thinks they will take any notice of the text is living in teletubbie land.

[bednobs]

i thnk its a good idea ... some woman was on the radio earlier likening it t a 40 mile an hour zone ... you know its 40 miles an hour you know the penalties, but you're going 45. if a sign flashes at you, you are going to slow down

[stokeace]

how maany of the immigrants would have 'lost' their mobiles.pathetic idea.

[Dom Tuk]

Oneeyedvic

) 'Watch list' of people not entitled to public services

wow...and how are they going to watch half a million people.....great management term that....watch list
2) Enforcement teams to track down bosses employing illegal workers
the legislation has been around since 2002. only eight employers have been prosccuted. besides how is the employer to know that the person presenting a forged passport is unemployable
3) Compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals

easily forged.....been shown time and again
4) Text alerts for people overstaying visas

laughable...not even worth commenting on. Where will you get their mobile numbers from. From their visa application. the application is done abroad...so it is a foreign number...when they get here they change the sim card and get a diferent number...duh
5) Possible �20,000 fines for landlords housing illegal immigrants

see bit about employers. so you want landlords to become immigration officers who can detect forgeries eh.....

6) Pilot schemes to use ID card data to ensure migrants pay for NHS care

has not worked in the past. A doctor has a duty of care to any patient who turns up. it is in the legislation. Doctor will treat first and the hospital will try to recoup the charges later. never works it has been tried before

[Oneeyedvic]

And your proposal Dom is?

Don't get me wrong all I'm commenting on is that fact that there is much mention of one 'laughable' policy and all the others are ignored.

With regards points 2 and 5 - I think they do have sensible overtures - if they are good forgeries then fair enough - but I bet a lot of landlords / employers don't even bother asking for copies - and that is a big issue.

[Dom Tuk]

oneeyedvic...my proposal is this

Migration is a fact of life. It has happened for thousands of years. Air travel has made it a rapid process now. Artificial borders created by man cannot stop what has been a natural process. Over thousands of years man has moved to a better place until that place has been desertified by over use. It happens throughout the life cycle and nothing is going to stop it. plain and simple.

[Zen]

Text to John Reid,Gordon Brown and Des Browne.

You've outstayed your welcome,time to clear off back to Scotland.

[gina32]

like someone said, the press or in this case the tory party have picked on just one part of teh governments ideas so why have a go when you dont know the whole package

[Lonnie]

How are they going to do this?, they don't have any phone numbers.

Just another ridiculous idea from a ridiculous goverment.

[Marvelman]

the civil servant who thought up this idea probably earns about eighty thousand pounds a year, does it make you want to cry.