Boris Johnson’s crackpot illegal immigrant amnesty

Are you an illegal immigrant? If so, Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, has an interesting proposition for you. By being here without permission you are breaking UK law. If you can manage to conceal your crime for five years Boris would like to reward you by giving you UK citizenship.

Boris thinks an amnesty would be ‘morally right’. Most people would see it as morally very wrong. What next Boris, an amnesty for murderers?  If nobody digs the wife’s body out of the flower bed then after ten years you win a free holiday in the Bahamas.

The Government quite righly rejects giving amnestys for illegal immigrants.

“Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said such a scheme would encourage more illegal immigrants.  He said: “What unfortunately would happen is that people traffickers and others would see that as a pull factor to get people to the United Kingdom illegally…”

Both Spain and Italy have given amnesties to illegal immigrants. The result has been to draw more illegal immigrants into both those countries.

There are lots of illegal immigrants in London. Perhaps Mr. Johnson hopes that if he gets them citizenship they will vote for him in the next mayoral election.

More likely is that lots of Londoners will think that Boris is a dangerous idiot and vote against him when they get the chance.

What happened to the Conservative Party minders who are supposed to stop Boris revealing his crackpot tendencies?

 

Liberal Democrats on amnesty for illegal immigrants

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.