Dave urges people to report illegal immigrants

smoker99

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I doubt the BNP would spend their time just ringing the hotline for fun. Why would they jam a line which they, assumingly, would be in favour of?

Does anyone actually know the new "hotline" number?

There's a nice quick and easy benefit fraud hotline but what's the dedicated number for reporting illegals?

Good old Dave, a lot of waffle again but very little substance. Anyone would think he wasn't very serious about tackling immigration.

Graham_Devon

smoker99 wrote: »

Does anyone actually know the new "hotline" number?

There's a nice quick and easy benefit fraud hotline but what's the dedicated number for reporting illegals?

Good old Dave, a lot of waffle again but very little substance. Anyone would think he wasn't very serious about tackling immigration.

Well it's not embedded in my head, but it's very simple to find!

0800 555 111

John_Pierpoint

Once you have managed to jump the border, you may eventually get arrested. By that time you have no paperwork, other than perhaps a couple of on-line email addresses; that you are careful to access from the library etc.

You present the authorities with a "c0ck and bull" story about your origins.

You are never going to be sent back to ................ (fill in you own fly blown state here - possibly starting with Somalia).

For one thing, your country of origin does not want you back and without proof of who you are, won't issue the relevant paperwork.

I don't know the exact statistics but once you have got here, the odds are you will stay for life and will eventually get an amnesty.

Meanwhile, as a stateless non person, you will be very tempted to try to earn some real money by joining the criminal underworld.

Where you come from, organising a "Vodka" factory in a lock-up garage with your mates, is probably normal behaviour at this time of year.

Some people don't agree with me, here is a bloke dreaming about the days when the world population was perhaps 20% of what it is now.

http://www.cgdev.org/section/search?q=clemens
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kktgp

His little talk is seven and a half minutes into this programme, following an item about the joys of being Greek.

dtsazza

Wheezy wrote: »

Of course I would report a crime if I witnessed one. Even you should see the difference between reporting an actual crime and reporting people you suspect are illegal.

Even me?

I understand what you're saying, but it is a grey area. In any situation that you're reporting to the police, you don't know all of the details but you have a strong suspicion something is amiss. That applies to a theft as much as breach of immigration rules.

There's obviously a point where it becomes counterproductive to make a report (roughly if your suspicion is weaker than the average leads that they department have already). But I still contend that the distinction between knowing a crime has occurred and merely suspecting one has occurred is a false one. If you think there's a reasonable chance that an investigation would turn up some wrongdoing, then it's fine to start that ball rolling.