Immigration Watch International (2): UK: Albanian migrants crossing Channel ‘face criminal record checks by own police at Dover’

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

UK: Albanian migrants crossing Channel ‘face criminal record checks by own police at Dover’

Albanian migrants arriving in Dover after crossing the Channel face criminal record checks by police officers from their own country, according to reports.

Government sources told The Telegraph that officials from the Home Office would meet senior Albanian officers on Tuesday to agree plans to cross-reference the fingerprints and biometric data of migrants with the Balkan nation’s criminal databases.

The new measures would allow Border Force and immigration enforcement officers to “identify and fast-track” anyone regarded as not “conducive to the public good” because of their criminal background to be deported to Albania, the newspaper reports.

The powers would be used in tandem with legislation introduced in June that allows UK immigration officials to speed up the removal of Albanian asylum seekers whose claims are judged to be “unfounded”.

Gledis Nano, general director of the Albanian state police, is understood to have suggested the deployment of at least two Albanian officers to Dover during a visit in July to meet officials from the National Crime Agency and Home Office.

A source told the newspaper: “This biometric data will enable officers to detect any Albanian wanted by Albanian police or who has a criminal background.

“They will have two laptops with all the systems and data that Albanian police have.”

A Border Force source said: “This access would help us immensely, assuming there are no data protection or legal issues that would prevent the Albanian police from receiving biographic and biometric data captured by UK Border Force under UK law to check against their own records.

“It will not only enable us to identify who they are but also if there are known criminals among them. However, there may be a risk in sharing information about asylum seekers with the government of the country they are claiming to fear persecution from – at least before the claim is assessed.”

It comes after Border Force officials reported that the majority of a record-breaking number of migrants who arrived in the UK this year were from Albania.

The ISU union, which represents staff working for the Home Office’s law enforcement body, said its members had seen an increase in people from the southeast European country making the Channel crossing in the past few months.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/albanian-migrants-dover-record-checks-b2155280.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

UK: Albanian migrants crossing Channel ‘face criminal record checks by own police at Dover’

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