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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: Text message to deter illegal migrants |
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Text messages reminding people not to overstay their visas are part of a new drive by the government to clamp down on illegal migrants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6424377.stm
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Nonsense, it will deter illegal migrants to go on the run. It would only work if they have a mobile phone. |
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Cherskiy

Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Seems like a waste of time and money to me - it's just giving a warning to those who wish to stay, that they better hurry up and find somewhere to lay low once their visa does expire.
There certainly doesn't appear to be a coherent policy regarding asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in this country - just endless failures to address the problem of increasing numbers, where to house them, how to process them quickly and how to return them if they fail. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Behind Geddon's Wall

Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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We need our own Ellis Island - how about Milton Keynes? _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | We need our own Ellis Island - how about Milton Keynes? |
Isle of Wight surely? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Ella Sailyour

Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Text message to deter illegal migrants |
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mark occomore wrote: | Nonsense, it will deter illegal migrants to go on the run. It would only work if they have a mobile phone. |
They could send a telegram to those who can't afford phones.
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Fog on the Tyne

Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1090
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Making sure that everyone has a mobile phone so MI5 can keep track of them...have you never seen Spooks  |
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