immigrants in tourists booted out the AA grumpy column
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:26 am
hello and welcome to grumpy towers on this sunny afternoon.
today i would like to bring to your attention a piece written by fellow columnist jhon gaunt regarding the diabolical treatment at heathrow of a visiting guest to our country by hm immigration service.
WE'RE getting some great stories on SunTalk but none has angered me more than the report of how Aussie Jodi Dawes was deported from our green and pleasant land.
Now, as you know, I am firmly in favour of strict immigration and border controls but how the hell can we let in every Tom, Dick and Abdul but refuse entry to a girl who just wanted to come over to celebrate her best mate's wedding?
Jodi arrived at Heathrow and was held and interrogated for 11 hours.
She was then forcibly escorted to a plane and deported back to Sydney for not having a tourist visa.
This was despite the fact she had a return ticket, proof of being invited to Katie Alexander's wedding and someone who was willing to put up money as security to prove that she wouldn't overstay.
Katie told me: "Part of Jodi's reason for coming here was because she has never met my daughters, who are two and seven months.
"She didn't even get to see them for a second. I am so mad because it seems that lots of illegal immigrants get into Britain but a decent, genuine person like Jodi can't."
Criminal
And Jodi said: "I was treated like a criminal. I was going to stay with Katie for a couple of weeks before going on a 33-day trip round Europe which I paid over £4,000 for. Then I was going to fly back to Australia.
"I had all the tickets and my bank statements to show I had enough money to support my trip but they wouldn't listen."
Meanwhile when the illegals jump out of the lorry at Watford Gap, the coppers greet them not with a pair of handcuffs and a one-way ticket home but a map and instructions in 15 different languages directing them to Lunatic House in Croydon and a lifetime of hot and cold running benefits.
Perhaps Jodi should have "lost" her passport, not understood English, asked for an interpreter or a doctor for a week-old gunshot wound, kicked in the TV in the holding room or set fire to the premises as a protest.
Just like the Gurkhas, it appears those in control of immigration (I use the term very loosely) would rather let in those who want to leech off us at best and preach hatred at worst than those who have real connections and an affinity with us and our ways.
And Jodi only wanted to visit It makes me ashamed to be British.
Jon Gaunt | Illegals welcome, tourists..deported | The Sun |News|Columnists|John Gaunt
AAG
what a diabolical way to treat a tourist the head of hm immigration and customs should make a unreserved apology to the austrailian government and to jodi dawes herself.
refund her £4,000 airfare and compensate her for the inconvienience caused and
those responsible should be carpeted that is the least we could do.
it is wrong how illegal immigrants and overstayers get kid glove treatment yet those who wish to visit our country are treated like criminals by the hm gestapo.
i hope ms dawes persues this further.
today i would like to bring to your attention a piece written by fellow columnist jhon gaunt regarding the diabolical treatment at heathrow of a visiting guest to our country by hm immigration service.
WE'RE getting some great stories on SunTalk but none has angered me more than the report of how Aussie Jodi Dawes was deported from our green and pleasant land.
Now, as you know, I am firmly in favour of strict immigration and border controls but how the hell can we let in every Tom, Dick and Abdul but refuse entry to a girl who just wanted to come over to celebrate her best mate's wedding?
Jodi arrived at Heathrow and was held and interrogated for 11 hours.
She was then forcibly escorted to a plane and deported back to Sydney for not having a tourist visa.
This was despite the fact she had a return ticket, proof of being invited to Katie Alexander's wedding and someone who was willing to put up money as security to prove that she wouldn't overstay.
Katie told me: "Part of Jodi's reason for coming here was because she has never met my daughters, who are two and seven months.
"She didn't even get to see them for a second. I am so mad because it seems that lots of illegal immigrants get into Britain but a decent, genuine person like Jodi can't."
Criminal
And Jodi said: "I was treated like a criminal. I was going to stay with Katie for a couple of weeks before going on a 33-day trip round Europe which I paid over £4,000 for. Then I was going to fly back to Australia.
"I had all the tickets and my bank statements to show I had enough money to support my trip but they wouldn't listen."
Meanwhile when the illegals jump out of the lorry at Watford Gap, the coppers greet them not with a pair of handcuffs and a one-way ticket home but a map and instructions in 15 different languages directing them to Lunatic House in Croydon and a lifetime of hot and cold running benefits.
Perhaps Jodi should have "lost" her passport, not understood English, asked for an interpreter or a doctor for a week-old gunshot wound, kicked in the TV in the holding room or set fire to the premises as a protest.
Just like the Gurkhas, it appears those in control of immigration (I use the term very loosely) would rather let in those who want to leech off us at best and preach hatred at worst than those who have real connections and an affinity with us and our ways.
And Jodi only wanted to visit It makes me ashamed to be British.
Jon Gaunt | Illegals welcome, tourists..deported | The Sun |News|Columnists|John Gaunt
AAG
what a diabolical way to treat a tourist the head of hm immigration and customs should make a unreserved apology to the austrailian government and to jodi dawes herself.
refund her £4,000 airfare and compensate her for the inconvienience caused and
those responsible should be carpeted that is the least we could do.
it is wrong how illegal immigrants and overstayers get kid glove treatment yet those who wish to visit our country are treated like criminals by the hm gestapo.
i hope ms dawes persues this further.