The Guardian reports that “The Liberal Democrats ventured into one of the most controversial areas of British politics yesterday by offering a conditional amnesty to migrants who entered Britain illegally 10 years or more ago.”
This is sheer stupidity. Illegal immigrants are criminals, and should be treated as such. The Liberal Democrat proposal would mean that, if they escaped detection for ten years, they would be rewarded for their crime. That would attract even more illegal immigrants than we have at present.
At the moment no party has effective policies for dealing with illegal immigrants, though none of the others have a policy quite as asinine as the LibDems.
We should be making a major effort to expel the almost one million illegal immigrants in this country. The more we can remove the less the pressures on housing, schools, NHS etc.
Instead of just expelling illegal immigrants we should be treating them as the criminals they are.
Anybody who is here illegally should -
Go to prison for two years before being deported.
Any property they have in this country should be confiscated.
If they enter again they should go to prison for five years.
If they refuse to identify the country they came from they should be kept in prison until they do.
We should take their DNA profile and share that with other members of the EU.
It should be a criminal offence to employ, house or in any way assist an illegal immigrant.
