I Will Be Very Interested To Hear What The Freedom Of Movement Advocators On Here Have To Day About This:

[youngmafbog]

"Polish one-man crime wave thrown out of UK two years ago came back and is now one of Britain's biggest burglars committing two break-ins a day"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5113531/Police-hunt-Polish-one-man-crime-wave.html

[Mamyalynne]

His card should have been marked when he was deported and refused re entry.

[sapelesam]

It was situations like this that tipped the balance when I voted for Brexit. Granted, if we ever do leave the EU, I can't see us ever having strong border security.

[douglas9401]

He'd be hard pushed to burgle with a couple of broken legs.

I imagine.

[cassa333]

There are no cards in the EU where movement is concerned so no card marking this time I'm afraid.

Taking the Irish boarder out of it for now, keeping a tighter control will be easier than now simply because everyone who comeing in via a boat, plane or train will have to go through boarder control. Show a passport and as long as our technology flags them up, lowlifes like this will be turned back pdq.

Or that's they way it should work anyway.

[Old_Geezer]

What is the point of throwing someone out if some idiots have set the rules to allow them back in again ? May as well not bother. Heck, give 'em a medal and hold a parade instead.

[TWR]

Give him a bonus & invite his family here, it says a lot about open Boarders.

[-Talbot-]

Within the European borders, every European should be free to burgle and rob with impunity in the country of choice.

[bhg481]

cassa - everybody coming into the UK at the present time has to go through border control. We are not part of the Schengen Agreement.

[ummmm]

Has no one landed in a country and no one check their passports on arrival?

It's happened to me so we're only as good as the country they are boarding in.

[naomi24]

Is that what's called gainfully employed?

[Guilbert53]

A Romanian man was arrested at the Arena Birmingham a few days ago after a gig by a rock band and he had FIFTY THREE mobile phones stuck down his trousers he had stolen from people at the gig.

The same happened at the same arena in 2016 with two other Eastern Europeans who had dozens of phones down their (baggy) trousers.

News items from 2016

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/romanian-pickpockets-jailed-stealing-18k-10958602

[-Talbot-]

And there will be a network of them, Guilbert.

[ichkeria]

Freedom of movement surely has nothing to do with it. Passports ARE checked at border control in the UK. Freedom of movement is about allowing people to come to work. This is a failing of immigration control and is just as likely to occur in the future unless people do their job properly.

[KARL]

Unless the man entered the UK by a beach somewhere (i.e. not a conventional entry point) his passport will have been seen and scanned by a UK Border Agency official and then he has been knowingly allowed to enter - always assuming the passport was genuine and his. I know of no UK border point which is unmanned (i.e. for example either on French soil or at the UK end), although I don't know whether UK officials are positioned at Eire borders and then there are none at the border with Northern Ireland. The UK thus has full observational powers as to who enters or leaves the UK and this has been so for decades. While anyone on an EEA passport is by definition free to choose to live and seek work in the UK, I understand that as a non-Schengen country, the UK can and does expel such people by court ruling (and the UK can extradite people from the EEA) - it then follows that the UK decides whether to readmit them at a later point.

[youngmafbog]

it's not exactly difficult to get into the country, I have been in and out of ports on the South and never been checked. We need to up our game.