Curry houses face illegal workers fine (From The Oxford Times)
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Curry houses face illegal workers fine
11:00am Saturday 16th March 2013 in News
TWO curry houses in Oxford are facing £20,000 fines after immigration checks found they had employed illegal workers.
UK Border Agency officers visited Malikas in Cowley Road and Temple Lounge in Temple Street on Thursday.
In the Cowley Road restaurant a 31-year-old from Bangladesh was found to be in breach of his visa conditions and was arrested to be deported. A 41-year-old Bangladeshi was found to have over-stayed his visa and was granted immigration bail.
The firm was told it faced being fined up to £10,000 for each illegal worker.
A 22-year-old Egyptian working at Temple Lounge was found to have over-stayed his visa and was also arrested to be deported. And a 32-year-old Palestinian man, who had entered the country illegally, was granted immigration bail.
Maria Leon, deputy director of the UK Border Agency, said: “We are carrying out operations like this across the Thames Valley almost every day, and for those who are living and working in the country illegally there is no hiding place.”
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xjohnx
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2:25pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe
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11:13pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Lord Palmerstone
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9:11am Sun 17 Mar 13
xjohnx wrote:Quite true, I was merely saying that UKBA is actually wholly ineffectual, whatever their highly paid managers may say. I don't want wheel clampers turning their attention to curry houses any more than you, but a governent which ignores the concerns of the voters about immigration like the mess 1997/2010 and Cameron being offensive about parties with a more popular policy on that subject equally risks a backlash. Labour is of course now leading the polls with the BlairBrown open door policy still an ulcerous wound. What can I say? Gobble gobble gobble, Labour turkeys vote for Christmas.
Overiding the law with bounty hunter/forced deportaion, would tend to turn this country into the sort of state we all might be tempted to escape from.
Lord Palmerstone
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9:15am Sun 17 Mar 13
Yellowlines
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9:58am Sun 17 Mar 13
Sandy Wimpole-Smythe wrote:Quite right. We just don't learn do we? Still, there is always Operation Bullfinch2, to look forward to.
Overstay your visa and you get arrested to be deported, enter the country ILLEGALLY and the idiots left them out on bail, yeah their going to answer that aren't they.
Lord Palmerstone says...
11:42am Sat 16 Mar 13
Well don't. Pay bounty hunters £1K a body and have them flown out within 24 hours of being brought in; you'd have the bulk of them out within a year-and they can be told that if they're found in our country again it'll be 5 years in a gaol on an island somewhere up north.. Morally it's right. They can't improve the holes they've fled from by remote control from here. They need to get back there and do what it takes to make those places liveable-ain't no one else ever going to do it if they keep running away to England , North America and Australasia.