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The Queen's Speech.
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/// If passed, the bill would ensure illegal immigrants cannot get driving licences, and change the rules so private landlords have to check their tenants' immigration status. ///
/// Businesses caught employing illegal foreign labour would face bigger
fines. ///
/// Migrants' access to the NHS would be restricted and temporary visitors would have to "make a contribution" to the cost of their care, either with their own money or through their government. ///
/// Asked on BBC Radio 4's The World at One whether this would mean GPs having to check patients' passports before agreeing to treat them, Business Secretary Vince Cable said "checks of various kinds" were one option being considered but the details had yet to be finalised. ///
With all these checks now necessary by Private Landlords, Employers, and GPs isn't the time now long overdue for the introduction of National I.D Cards?
/// If passed, the bill would ensure illegal immigrants cannot get driving licences, and change the rules so private landlords have to check their tenants' immigration status. ///
/// Businesses caught employing illegal foreign labour would face bigger
fines. ///
/// Migrants' access to the NHS would be restricted and temporary visitors would have to "make a contribution" to the cost of their care, either with their own money or through their government. ///
/// Asked on BBC Radio 4's The World at One whether this would mean GPs having to check patients' passports before agreeing to treat them, Business Secretary Vince Cable said "checks of various kinds" were one option being considered but the details had yet to be finalised. ///
With all these checks now necessary by Private Landlords, Employers, and GPs isn't the time now long overdue for the introduction of National I.D Cards?
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- The Borders Agency is being scrapped.
- These measures are doomed to fail. There is no authority to them such as a government agency or police to make sure illegals are caught. Instead, it relies on ordinary citizens to police. Landlords, doctors, employers are not really interested in doing that. They will not do it, and plead ignorance if caught.
- I was unaware that illegal immigrants could get a driving licence. How is that possible? Certainly agree it they should not be able to.
- Can't imagine doctors and hospitals turning away very sick people just because they do not have enough cash on them. Unworkable.
- Identity cards would not make any difference and is a complete red herring to the measures in the Queen's speech.
- These measures are doomed to fail. There is no authority to them such as a government agency or police to make sure illegals are caught. Instead, it relies on ordinary citizens to police. Landlords, doctors, employers are not really interested in doing that. They will not do it, and plead ignorance if caught.
- I was unaware that illegal immigrants could get a driving licence. How is that possible? Certainly agree it they should not be able to.
- Can't imagine doctors and hospitals turning away very sick people just because they do not have enough cash on them. Unworkable.
- Identity cards would not make any difference and is a complete red herring to the measures in the Queen's speech.
'There are stories of heavily pregnant women arriving in the UK because childbirth qualifies for emergency care and the child would be British, thereby providing the mother with residency rights. There are tales of families relocating because a child has severe congenital or acquired illness and of large numbers of patients with HIV coming to the UK because that is their only hope of getting effective treatment. There are even stories of patients landing at Heathrow in kidney failure and being blue-lighted to hospital for dialysis.'
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Khandro, being born in Britain does not make anyone British, so a Nigerian or American mother who gives birth here does not then create a British citizen. (A Nigerian or British woman who did so in the US would, however, create an American citizen; a curious local rule which apparently applies even though the mother is an 'illegal')
Why do some if not most oppose I.D.cards?
Most these days have to carry workplace IDs, in fact they revel in it seeing the number of out of office hour workers still shopping in the supermarkets with this 'costume jewellery' hanging round their necks, most carry their Driving Licence, and possess a Pass-Port.
And what of those others who have none of these, are they not asked from time to time to provide proof of their identity by showing two recent utility bills etc?
A modern ID card could include a person's DNA, finger prints, photograph etc, who could possibly argue with that? I know that I wouldn't and at least we would know who has a legal right to be in this country.
Most these days have to carry workplace IDs, in fact they revel in it seeing the number of out of office hour workers still shopping in the supermarkets with this 'costume jewellery' hanging round their necks, most carry their Driving Licence, and possess a Pass-Port.
And what of those others who have none of these, are they not asked from time to time to provide proof of their identity by showing two recent utility bills etc?
A modern ID card could include a person's DNA, finger prints, photograph etc, who could possibly argue with that? I know that I wouldn't and at least we would know who has a legal right to be in this country.
