Well At Least They Cannot Say They Were Not Warned.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383156/Immigration-officers-arrest-139-suspected-offenders-wave-raids.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

/// Writing in The Independent, Dave Garratt, the chief executive of charity Refugee Action, warned that the operations could 'incite racial tensions'. ///

/// 'Over the last few weeks we've seen some very visible signs of the Government's 'hostile environment' crusade. There have been vans out on the streets with threatening slogans and, reportedly, non-white people being visibly stopped and searched,' he wrote. ///

It has been reported that the Government are being racist, well since this operation is focused against all illegal immigrants, be them black, white or any other skin colour, perhaps they should come up with another word that is the prime protector for all non white people?

[ukanonymous]

What a comlete load of tripe. Everybody winging about too much immigration and then when people start to do something they pull out the racist card. Extremely amusing

[DrFilth]

sandyRoe
> DrFilth, what authority would they have to stop and question people on the street? It all seems very un-British. <

you would need to ask them that but don't expect an honest back from them

[DrFilth]

that should read

honest answer back from them

[Octavius]

Brenden "So all illegal immigrants are of one colour octavius"

No, I said quite the opposite actually, if as AOG suggests, the agencies are going around looking for black "african looking" men, they could just as easily find legally legitimate French, German or British black men.

So why focus on colour ? That seems to be the cause of the 'racial tension'.

[Brenden]

Sorry I misread Octavius, could be that our intellegence service know the nationality of the type of persons they are stopping -

[anotheoldgit]

To all those who think that non-whites are being unfairly treated in this quest to find illegal immigrants I ask this,

"if you as immigration officers are set with the task of finding illegal immigrants and are faced with equal amounts of people from what group would you expect to fill your 'keep net' with, white illegals or non white illegals"?

This is not racist it is just based on the known figures.

/// The Home Office says the top five countries from which the illegals have arrived are believed to be India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China, and Bangladesh. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258216/Enough-illegal-migrants-cities-size-Newcastle-863-000-UK-study-finds.html

[Brenden]

Knowing the nationality and colour of the persons they are searching surely shortens the odds to being successful? If you are mugged in the street you give a description he was around 6" and black or white or asian - not racial in my book - descriptive..