(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
The coalition government is so desperate to show it has reduced immigration before the next election, it’s now taken to deporting NHS workers, psychotherapists, chemical engineers and dads with cancer.
Cameron’s nanny, however, stays.
Ralph Marx is a chemical engineer. He lived in the UK for 13 years with his British (former Royal Navy chief petty officer) wife and their 10-year-old daughter Alexandra.
Then in 2012 he was refused residency by the Home Office. He was told it was because he had been diagnosed with cancer.
He was deported and is now separated from his wife and daughter:
Dad deported from Britain because his cancer treatment was too expensive
Mr Marx had private health cover but – of course – private insurance companies won’t pay up for life-threatening conditions such as cancer.
Alexandra’s dad was considered to be a burden on…
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Well he is an american, we can deport them, if he had been from the eussr we couldn’t, or if he was a muslim terrorist we would have the ECHR on our backs over it. The conlablibdum party will use any means it can to construct statistics to use in its propaganda campaigns.
Not really the point, though.
And yet as Barry says, if he were a Muslim terrorist who had killed US citizens we couldn’t deport him because he might face the death penalty. Criminals like the person who murdered a headmaster can’t be deported as it would “breach their human rights” whilst good people who obey the laws and have a decent job can.