By Giuseppe De Santis
Another story reported a few days ago proves, once again, the madness of the British immigration system.
A convicted sex offender from Zimbabwe has been permitted to remain in the UK due to concerns about the ‘hostility’ he would face in his home country. The Home Office sought to deport him, but an immigration tribunal judge intervened, concerned that deportation would violate his human rights.
A judge ruled that deportation would violate Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which prohibits torture, inhumane treatment, and degrading punishment. The man’s lawyers claimed that he, being openly gay, would be met with “substantial hostility” from the authorities in Zimbabwe, a point with which the judge agreed. The anonymous man has been in prison for over five years for child sex offences.
There have been other recent asylum cases which illustrate a broader trend.
A Nigerian migrant had her asylum case rejected eight times before finally succeeding after she joined a terrorist organisation in an effort to strengthen her claim. A judge acknowledged that she pretended to be involved with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to boost her asylum claim. Nigeria regards the IPOB as a terrorist group, but the UK does not. Therefore, it’s deemed acceptable to believe she would be under threat if she was deported, even if she lied about being a terrorist.
Some other absurd cases include an Albanian criminal who avoided deportation by claiming that his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets and a Pakistani paedophile who was imprisoned for child sex offences but managed to escape removal from the UK because it would be deemed “unduly harsh” on his children.
There was also an immigration tribunal decision that permitted a Palestinian family to relocate to the UK after they applied through the Ukrainian refugee scheme. Some asylum seekers have falsely claimed to pretend to convert to Christianity, claiming that they would be face persecution if they were deported.
This situation is intolerable. We must withdraw from the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). However,both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have no intention of ever doing so, leaving the British Democrats as the party with the backbone to intervene and stop this madness. We need change, and we need it now!
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