THEY CAN’T
CONTROL OUR BORDERS. HAVE LOST 916 FOREIGN
NATIONALS - 10,000 IN PRISON. THEY
WON’T RESIGN.
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It’s not only the
Foreign criminals
who’ve vanished?
but also any pretence
that Britain
[ENGLAND]
controls its borders or
, indeed,
it’s very DESTINY.
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Daily Mail
Wednesday, April 26-2006
by
Melanie Phillips
EVEN by the
law-dropping standards of
GOVERNMENT
INCOMPETENCE to which we sadly become so accustomed, this one surely takes the
hum dinging biscuit.
THE HOME
OFFICE, it turns out, has managed to lose no fewer than 916 prisoners during
the past seven years. These were foreign nationals who should have been
considered for deportation after serving their sentences.
NOT ONLY WERE
THEY NOT CONSIDERED
But
THE HOME
OFFICE
Hasn’t
a clue where they have gone.
This debacle
occurred, we are told because the PRISON SERVICE was ‘not focused on the
nationality of its prisoners.’ while the
IMMIGRATION
DEPARTMENT
It appears, simply wasn’t focused at all.
So
a total of 1,032 prisoners slipped through the gap and, with the exception of
107 who have been tracked down, just melted away.
They
included no fewer than
3
- Murderers
9
– Rapists
5-
Paedophiles, two convicted of manslaughter.
20-
Drug importers and others convicted of a variety of violent and other SERIOUS
OFFENCES.
The
gravity of their crimes and the consequent risk they posed to the PUBLIC were
such that, as manifest undesirables, they should have at least been considered
for DEPORTATION.
Crimes.
Indeed, 160 of
them had committed such serious crimes that the COURTS had specifically
recommended that they should be THROWN OUT OF THE COUNTRY at the end of their
sentences.
Instead,
the HOME SECRETARY archly conceded that he could not say ‘hand on heart’ that
they would all be tracked down, but we are working on that very energetically’.
[Well!
Charles Clarke must be very -very and again most certainly very worried should
one of his missing ‘angels’ decide to thank the HOME SECRETARY for his FREEDOM
by butchering some defenceless citizen, or obtaining further experience on the
job which put them in to PRISON in the FIRST PLACE while the millions of
concerned voters who have been misled over the past seven years calculate the
increased DANGER to their lives and their children.
This
is no doubt an excellent time to get the police out of their cars and police
stations and back on the beat –because that is the ONLY WAY to gather in the
missing criminals in the quickest time and put the PUBLIC anxiety at the top of
their list for urgent rectification.]
To Continue:
Is that what
passes at the Home Office for gallows humour?
If so, few will share the joke.
The chances of
these people being tracked down, as Charles Clarke knows perfectly well, are
passingly remote.
The
Home Office (the Ministry whose overriding function is to ensure the safety of
the PUBLIC) hasn’t got a clue where these criminals now are.
It
doesn’t know whether they are still in
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
Or
WALES.
It doesn’t know whether they have committed yet more crimes.
It
doesn’t even know what 103 of these individuals –who were serving time inside
its own jails-had actually done. It did not have it is said, the full details
of their offences.
Was
it, perhaps, not focused upon any pertinent details of the people entrusted to its custody,
including why they were there or what was to be done with them?
Indeed,
is the HOME OFFICE actually focused upon anything useful at all?
The
scale of this incompetence simply beggars belief. Two separate departments of
the HOME OFFICE, the one as useless as the other, were required to co-operate;
the result was the mother of all debacles.
AND
THE REASON THEY WERE SO USELESS
Was
that both were mired in the chaos of FAILED GOVERNMENT POLICY.
The
PRISON DEPARTMENT was struggling to cope with GROSS OVERCROWDING, caused by
MINISTERS’ refusal to BUILD ENOUGH PRISONS.
The
IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT was struggling in turn with the shambles of ASYLUM
POLICY caused by MINISTERS’ failure to deal properly with its SYSTEMATIC ABUSE.
That
shambles has allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into Britain
[ENGLAND takes the brunt of the problem], of whom only a tiny proportion are
ever removed.
THE VAST
MAJORITY JUST DISAPPEAR.
Some
237 of these mislaid foreign criminals were also failed ASYLUM SEEKERS. So their disappearance is a double scandal.
They should have been at least considered for DEPORTATION twice over.
This loss of
CONTROL over our BORDERS has been exacerbated by a huge influx of workers from
Eastern Europe.
TWO
MILLION POLES – more than the population of WARSAW –have arrived in Britain
[ENGLAND] since the EU’s borders were thrown open two years ago.
But
no one has a clue how many have returned and how many have stayed. And what was not realised until NOW was that
one of the consequences of the loss of
IMMIGRATION
CONTROLS
-has been a
staggering rise in the number of foreign nationals in our JAILS –up from
4,259 in 1996
to the latest figure of
10,265 in 2006.
WHAT A FARCE?
We have absolutely no idea who remains in the
country and who has left. Even when
foreign nationals are actually in JAIL,
we have no idea who is there and why.
And we have no
idea what happens to them when they get out, even when they may need to be
thrown out of the country because so many are now here that the PRISON SYSTEM
CAN
NO LONGER COPE.
Chaos
Mr Clarke was
eating humble pie yesterday.
But he owed up
only because he had to apologise for misleading the
Public
Accounts Committee
-after his department’s
former top official had given a woeful underestimate of the numbers of foreign
criminals who had been lost –doubtless because of the very chaos in his
department which has now come to light.
The cause of
both that chaos itself and the fact that it was buried for so long lies in the
fact that the issue of IMMIGRATION
- is still an enormous taboo?
Anyone who
criticises the lack of PROPER CONTROLS
-is promptly
defamed and vilified as a racist or some kind of neo-Nazi.
It is, in
fact, perfectly reasonable to be concerned about the complete disintegration of
anything remotely resembling a coherent or intelligent IMMIGRATION POLICY
That is in the
INTERESTS of
THIS
COUNTRY.
It is the
suppression and demonisation of this ISSUE- perhaps more than any other factor
–that has caused the alarming swell of support for the
BRITISH
NATIONAL PARTY
- which is
cleverly concealing its racist agenda to take full advantage of public despair
over the refusal of the entire mainstream political class to bring IMMIGRATION
-under CONTROL
[And the continued drift into a
UNITED
STATES OF EUROPE]
To continue:
The WHOLE
IMMIGRATION FIASCO illustrates the lethal confidence of endemic GOVERNMENT
incompetence and self-destructive IDEOLOGY.
Because there
is such a powerful taboo against talking honestly about the subject, there are
no votes in it.
And because of
that, the IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT
-
is
low on the pecking order and the quality of its officials is poor.
-
So
it presides over one crisis after another arising from the creation of porous
NATIONAL BORDERS.
Forgery
Thus the POLICE are warning
that people trafficking and passport fraud are now running OUT OF CONTROL, with
multi-million-pound rackets in which gangsters forging passports are even
offering ‘franchises’ to other gangs to run passport forgery operations.
WELCOME TO THE
SURREAL WORLD OF KENTUCKY FRIED FORGERS.
It was once
considered a resigning matter if the HOME OFFICE lost
ONE OFFENDER.
NOW IT LOSES
916 of them
-and MINISTERS
simply wash their hands of RESPONSIBILITY.
DOWNING STREET
said it was ‘unreasonable’ to expect MINISTERS to know what was going on in
every nook and cranny in their DEPARTMENT.
UNREASONABLE?
WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE PRINCIPLE OF MINISTERIAL ACCOUNTABILITY?
[Well on
MINISTER salaries/expenses of well over £285,000 a year if they won’t take the responsibility
will they tell us WHO is to be the FALL GUY because someone MUST PAY.]
To continue:
Instead of
taking the rap for presiding over such chaos and endangering PUBLIC SAFETY
-on an EPIC
SCALE, Mr Clarke has the gall to start lecturing the media for allowing its
obsession with CIVIL RIGHTS to blind it to the need to protect PUBLIC SAFETY.
DOWNING STREET
says the PRISONER RELEASE SCANDAL is NOT a FAILURE of POLICY.
BUT THE FACT
IS THAT, paralysed by TERROR that they might be accused of the ultimate crimes
of RACISM or XENOPHOBIA, MINISTERS brush IMMIGRATION under the carpet and hope
the PROBLEM will DISAPPEAR.
ALAS, the
PROBLEM is still with us. It is the CRIMINALS who have DISAPPEARED- along with
PUBLIC SAFETY
NATIONAL
IDENTITY
-and any pretence
that THIS COUNTRY now CONTROLS its OWN BORDERS
or, INDEED,
Its DESTINY.
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DAILY MAIL
COMMENT
A
Home Secretary failing in his Duty.
HOW
characteristic of modern politicians that our Home Secretary had neither the
grace nor the sense of parliamentary duty to go to the House of Commons yesterday
to explain the latest display of rank incompetence by his Department.
Instead,
Charles Clarke issued a written statement (leaving MP’s powerless to cross-examine
him) revealing that over the past seven years 1,023 foreign criminals –most of
whom should have been deported on completing their sentences –have simply been
released and left to roam our streets.
Mr Clarke
described this appalling blunder by the Prison Service and Immigration and
Nationality Directorate as
‘Regrettable’.
What dire
understatement. Those who have slipped through the fingers of the authorities
include three murderers, nine rapists, five child molesters and 20 drug
traffickers and those same authorities have no idea where these criminals are
or what they are up to.
In their naiveté,
the British public might be forgiven for assuming such people would, as a matter
of course, be put on a plane to their country of origin the moment that
complete their sentences.
Not a bit
of it. These killers, rapists and paedophiles are on the loose thanks to official
bungling and buck passing.
Even Mr Clarke
concedes there’s now precious little prospect of them being rounded up and
deported. The best chance of their
being apprehended is –yes - you’ve guessed it –if they are caught committing
another crime.
This
country has long being seen as a soft touch for illegal immigrants. NOW it
appears to be the softest of touches for foreign criminals.
The scandal is
rooted in this Government’s wanton abandonment of CONTROL over our BORDERS, its
most dangerously reckless failure of POLICY.
It’s no
coincidence that a quarter of these foreign criminals were failed
ASYLUM SEEKERS.
As the number
of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants has soared –and the Government has no
clue as to the true figure and appears NOT TO CARE – so have the number of
foreigners in our CELLS.
It has
risen from 4000 when Labour came to power to more than 10,000 NOW.
That’s one
in eight of the entire prison population.
What a disturbing indicator
of the level of criminality seeping through our porous borders.
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Coming on top of the
shocking catalogue of murders by early release prisoners or people on
probation, the charge sheet against Mr Clarke is lengthening.
Only yesterday
he was unveiling a deeply dubious plan to place violent early release prisoners
in allegedly secure hostels – a scheme that has everything to do with the
scandalous lack of PRISON SPACE and the GOVERNMENT’S desperate need to save
money and nothing to do with
THE
SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC
YET the HOME
SECRETARY insists he will NOT RESIGN. And how significant that as the latest
row was breaking he found the time for A PETTY little feud with the tiny
circulation liberal media for daring to question his authoritarian
anti-terrorist legislation.
It might surprise these papers
to know we are firmly on their side. We have long argued that sacrificing this
country’s hard-won civil rights would be a VICTORY for the TERRORISTS.
The sadness is that the
HOME
SECRETARY
-presiding
over such an irredeemably shambolic department should spend so much time on
student union politicking rather than on his
PRIMARY
DUTY
-THE
PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC.
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