You have to love the Home Office. It is doing its best to keep both illegal immigrants and sarcastic journalists in easy work for eternity.
Yesterday, as I was leaving the Home Office's grand Marsham Street HQ, I was wondering what I would write about following a very on-message interview with a senior official about the importance of checking the employment status of migrant job applicants.
Paula Higson, director of managed migration at the Home Office, told me it was employers' job to ensure people were legal to work here.
As I handed in my security pass to the doorman on my way out of the building, I braced against the cold and shuddered to think I was going to have to write something positive about the Home Office. Then I saw on a newspaper that it had employed an illegal migrant for 19 months to guard the very front door I had just walked out of.
I don't think there is much need to editorialise here. Suffice it to say that the government is going to have an increasingly hard task being taken seriously by employers on migrant workers the longer it goes on being such a shining example of bad practive itself.
Comments (2)
Hi there
I'm truly traumatised Steve from Grimsby.
This morning at 07.40 a.m. my house was raided by 6 unknown and unidentified home office officials, I belive it said immigration on their kevlar vests.
Some background, my youngest son was backpacking 2004/2005, and was in Australia for some time. On his return to GRIMSBY he met an Australian girl (some irony !). She went back to Australia before her Visa expired in April 2007. He followed in July 2007.
The both came back for a holiday in April this year.
Back to this morning, these officers, accompanied by 3 police officers, entered our house and segregated the family, to talk to her!
Unfortunately for them, her passport showed entry to the UK on 01.04.08
They were here apparently taking action on misinformation given under oath to Hull Magistrates Court by [name removed].
You may well ponder how our immigration system works, as no record of thi sperson entering the country is apparent, how many others are there who have untoward views of the UK.
I worked for the UN Department of Peace-Keeping Operations for 12 years, and have not experienced anything so Orwellian in my life. To say we are a little traumatised is an understatement, what happens next we don't know although we are taking legal advice.
My point being, the Immigration Border Control have a job to do, but why can't they do it properly, and what other errors have they made ?
I'm not even going into what our neighbours may think !
Cheers
Steve
Posted by Steve | June 23, 2008 10:21 AM
Posted on June 23, 2008 10:21
illegal immigrants plan and know how to beat the system even though some finally get caught..this is a criminal act therefore it will never be won this i must say...its time we learn to accept it and deal with it as any issue really...
Posted by Don Corleone | August 24, 2008 8:00 PM
Posted on August 24, 2008 20:00