It Would Seem That We Would Rather Keep Our Illegal Immigrants Than Send Them Back..

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318234/Illegal-immigrant-trying-LEAVE-Britain-jailed-caught-Channel-Tunnel-way-home-Albania.html

/// An illegal immigrant has been sent to jail and told he must serve his sentence in Britain after he was caught trying to leave the UK and go home to look after his mother. ///

/// MailOnline has contacted the UK Border Agency for comment, but they are yet to respond. ///

/// It came as a Chinese gangster who was jailed for kidnap and blackmail avoided deportation because he has forged a new life in a Christian retreat centre and sending him back would 'devastate' him. ///

You couldn't make it up could you? Neither did the Daily Mail it seems.

[boxtops]

Not the first time it's happened, people have been stopped at the docks here trying to leave. Ridiculous - just let 'em go.

[jim360]

This is almost funny...

[Sharingan]

Poor guy, should've just let him leave.

[Zeuhl]

So criminals should be 'let off' if they are leaving the country?

Perhaps someone should let Stuart Hall know

[Sharingan]

For me there is a very big difference between someone coming here and looking for work ( even if it was on fake papers) and then who gets caught trying to go home to care for his sick mother and Stuart ' I molested a 9 year old' Hall.

[Zeuhl]

True sheri

you're right

[ichkeria]

When this guy turns up in Tirana with false Greek papers claiming to be visiting his sick mother what are the Albanian authorities going to do?
Send him back to the UK?
Just a thought...

[sp1814]

Most funny what some people are interested in. Yawn

[youngmafbog]

Immigration is a hot topic, as the liberals and Tories are finding out this morning SP.

This is bordering on ridiculous, perhaps the judge was a mate of Zeuhl though?.

He should have been allowed to leave but with the caveat he can never enter the UK ever again.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

Just repeating what AOG wrote on another thread.

[elizabeth ho]

the border agency is no more thanks to the home secretary. illegal immigrants when found should be deported on the first plane whether they have made a life here or not. this country of ours is over flowing.

[jim360]

The key is to ensure that illegal immigrants are picked up on quicker so that they never have a chance to build a life here. A strong and properly funded Borders Agency is vital. Shame that Theresa May hasn't seen it like that ...