"REMOVAL MAN" HAS JUST THE RIGHT RING TO IT:

Confessions of the removal man (Philip Johnston, 17/05/2006, Daily Telegraph)

Immigration control was denounced as a mockery yesterday after Whitehall officials disclosed that those overstaying illegally are not pursued "as individuals" and hundreds of thousands of National Insurance numbers are given to foreign nationals without any check on their status.

MPs on the all-party Commons home affairs committee were flabbergasted to hear from senior civil servants that no records were kept on people whose applications to stay in Britain were turned down after months or even years of expensive legal wrangling.

Dave Roberts, who holds the title Director, Enforcement and Removals, at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, "had not the faintest idea" how many people were here illegally.

Folks who think they want the kind of government that would forcibly remove people who fled to their country seeking a better life need to move to the sorts of country those poor souls fled, though that's not a formula they can likely comprehend.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 16, 2006 11:10 PM