UK to deport migrant workers who lose their jobs
The UK Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has announced he is getting tough on poverty by deporting migrant workers. Speaking yesterday, Woolas said: “In Peterborough where there have been agricultural workers because of the benefit there, there has been a benefit from this immigration. But if you’re getting people sleeping rough, I’m not prepared to see people lying about in tents in parks and in the countryside in Peterborough or anywhere else in this country. That’s why we’re taking this action.”
So, people who have worked hard, been exploited by employers and ripped off by slum landlords, paid their taxes and benefited the economy are to be repaid by being deported when they lose their jobs and tied accommodation. Thanks Phil.
Reported in the Telegraph and Channel 4 News
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[...] attitudes to new migrants are more susceptible to politicisation in an election. This week the government announced the ‘Deportation’ of destitute migrants who have lost their jobs. It’s sad when such language is used against vulnerable people who have [...]