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Subject: Immigration Departments Hidden Agenda?

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Chris (BARBADOS)

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Date Posted: 20:04:15 12/07/04 Tue
In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "What a wonderful world we live in..." on 14:27:08 12/05/04 Sun

It may be that there are persons in the Immigration department who realise the absurdity of the present system. They recognise that by applying the letter of the law as required by European Treaty, they can help wake people up to the reality of the law. If they didn't, the legal absurdities would slip from under the radar.

Ignoring the implications of European immigration law and not strictly enforcing it isn't going to change it. Indeed, it would further lull the British into complacency. We should welcome it when the law is strictly enforced and it reaches the papers. Of course, we wish it were otherwise, but the only way to change the current reality is for people to be reminded of it.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 20:25:04 12/07/04 Tue

That's certainly what they did in Bulgaria last year. I don't know if you remember the reports, but the poor blighters in the immigration department of our Embassy at Sofia were told to rush through as many applications for visas as they could before eastern Europe joined the EC, so that it wouldn't look like there was a sudden glut of arrivals in May last year. They were incensed, but thought that the best way to bring the scandal to the public attention was by completely saturating Britain with Bulgarians; and, as the newspaper reports prove, they got their point across.

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