Illegal Immigrants Do Want To Leave Britain, Sikh Community Leader Insists As Row Over Poster Campaign Continues

[singhbj singh]

Illegal immigrants DO want to leave Britain, Sikh community leader insists as row over poster campaign continues

Gurmel Singh-Kandola said many illegal arrivals from India were stuck here

He said they were unable to work and wanted Home Office help to go back

His remarks are in contrast to fury provoked by poster campaign

The posters stated: In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest.

By JACK DOYLE

PUBLISHED: 23:18 GMT, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:18 GMT, 9 August 2013

In talks: Illegal immigrants living in 'beds in sheds' are desperate to leave Britain and return home, Gurmel Singh-Kandola, secretary-general of the Sikh Council, has said

Illegal immigrants living in beds in sheds are desperate to leave Britain and return home, an ethnic minority leader says.

Gurmel Singh-Kandola, secretary-general of the Sikh Council, said many arrivals from India who had entered the country unlawfully were stuck here, unable to work, and wanted help from the Home Office to go back.

His support for a voluntary returns process echoes Home Office efforts to persuade some of the estimated one million illegal immigrants in Britain to leave of their own accord.

His organisation is now in talks with the department over how migrants with no right to remain might contact officials for help to return voluntarily.

His remarks are in stark contrast to the fury provoked by the poster campaign among human rights advocates, refugee groups and left-wing politicians.

The posters were mounted on vans driven around parts of London, and stating: In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest. A text number was provided for advice and help with travel documents.

An investigation into whether they were offensive and irresponsible was launched yesterday by the Advertising Standards Authority.

The watchdog said it had received 60 complaints about the posters including that they were reminiscent of slogans used by racist groups to attack immigrants in the past.

Mr Singh-Kandola believes the message behind the posters could have been delivered more softly.

If it said something like, If you want to go home contact this number or assistance is available to return home I think it would have been the same message but delivered more softly, he said.

Many from the Punjab and Delhi were stuck here, impoverished and unable to work, he said.

Controversial: This poster campaign caused fury among human rights advocates, refugee groups and left-wing politicians

Their plight is well known; they are sleeping very rough under bridges and in multiple occupancies, sometimes in sheds in the back of peoples gardens.

'We have been quite concerned about the abject poverty in which they are living. Many of them have been trafficked by unscrupulous agents who take a lot of money from them.

Many illegal immigrants destroyed their passport once they arrived in the country, Mr Singh-Kandola said, making it difficult for them to go home even if they wanted to.

It could take six or seven months to get replacement documents papers from the Indian consulate, he said. The Home Office could help them obtain a new passport quickly and buy them a flight home.

Our discussions have been for those who want to go back home to facilitate that process in a humane and generous way.

He said illegal immigrants were victims of hype which led them to believe they could live and work in Britain once they arrived.

In fact they are stuck. They want to go home on a voluntary basis and what we need is processes to facilitate that.

Raid: An Uzbekistani man who is said to have overstayed his visa was detained by UK Border Agency officers in a raid on a busy central London restaurant on Thursday

Officials said the £10,000 cost of the poster campaign would pay for itself if just one migrant returned home because of the cost of enforced removals.

Yesterday, Eric Pickles became the first senior Tory to raise doubts about the use of the vans, and said they should be rolled-out nationwide only if it could be proved they work.

The Communities Secretary said: I will be looking at that evidence. I need to see some very persuasive evidence that this should be passed out nationally. If something like this has to happen it needs to be evidence-based.

The Communities Secretary is cracking down on traveller sites which trash the countryside, with new guidance to councils on removing illegal camps.

Prepared: The UK Border Agency sent three vans to Soho to seize the employee

Mr Pickles said £60million was being made available to local authorities to help them act more quickly to shut down unauthorised encampments.

He told ITVs Daybreak: We inherited a situation where the number of illegal sites had gone up four-fold and what we expect them to do is obey the law like you and I do.

The idea that this is somehow an attack on the traveller community is not true. This is a very good deal for travellers.

His department hopes the guidance will give local residents a stronger voice in getting authorities to take action against illegal camps, and prevent incidents like the £7million clear-out of Dale Farm in 2011 after a 10-year wrangle.

Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388480/Illegal-immigrants-DO-want-leave-Britain-Sikh-community-leader-insists-row-poster-campaign-continues.html

[Deletedkp]

Cant the Gurdwara help out some of the people who want to go back? How much money is donated, good idea to use it for practical situations like this.

[DalbirSingh]

2nd largest language spoken in the Uk is Polish

3rd is Punjabi and 4th is Urdu

wow- why don't we get funding to teach punjabi when a crap language like french is forced down all of the british kids who hate it why not give the option to more kids who can want to learn it to learn it.

Why does the media always call some wise sikh a community leader? We don't even know who our community leaders are or what responsibilities they have? The community leader term is just a funny term really it seems to be chosen by the media who our leaders are rather then us.

[Hammertime007]

Sikhs are not the only ones who speak Punjabi. So stop linking it to us.

Kick out illegals and foreignen criminals, bogus asylum seekers.

Keep legal immigrants and real asylum seekers

[HSD2]

It's not only the illegals who are desperate to get out.

[LegalSingh]

It's not only the illegals who are desperate to get out.

Just curious HSD, what and who is stopping you from going then?

With free movement in the EU you have full rights to move this evening to beautiful Bavaria.....sunny Barcelona.....sweltering Madrid or charming Copenhagen. Why are you still here if its so bad ?

[HSD2]

Just curious HSD, what and who is stopping you from going then?

With free movement in the EU you have full rights to move this evening to beautiful Bavaria.....sunny Barcelona.....sweltering Madrid or charming Copenhagen. Why are you still here if its so bad ?

Because it's part of being British to whinge over everything. It's not like any of those places you mentioned are devoid of the problems here either. And if I did leave who would keep an eye on child slavers like you? Peace.

[jashb]

2nd largest language spoken in the Uk is Polish

3rd is Punjabi and 4th is Urdu

Sikhs are not the only ones who speak Punjabi. So stop linking it to us.

You know what, Bradistan is currently the subject of another thread. Why not make a trip there?

Ok, now I could think of a thousand and one reasons why you'd want to avoid doing exactly that, but let's say, for illustrative purposes, you've got a few screws loose, so you take a sojourn to lovely Bradford, to see the islamic hell hole for what it is, in order to convey the below point.

You'd hear a lot of Panjabi spoken. But, you wouldn't see many Sikhs speaking it.

That's because the majority of Panjabi speakers, in Bradford, across the UK, and in fact, all over the entire world, are pakistani muslim, and not Sikh at all.

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Shocked?

If you're not, then you're in the minority.

In fact, much of our community is so self contained, that our general misconception that Sikhs hold some kind of monopoly over the Panjabi language, is one of the most common delusions prevalent amongst Panjabi (especially rural) Sikhs.

That, and the other, of course, being our stupid idea that almost all Jatts are Sikhs.

The unholy equation goes something like this:

"Panjabi = Sikh = Jatt".

While readers of this forum would no doubt laugh at the stupidity of anyone who could actually believe that could be true, I could still show you about 90% of people from a certain biraderi who actually still believe that to be true in 2013.

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So many Sikhs, detached from the wider environment that they live in, and furthermore, still stuck in the whole "we're all asian" delusion, enthusiastically quote the fact about Panjabi being one of the most widely spoken second languages in the UK, as if it's a badge of honour for them.

They are comically oblivious to the fact that the statistic is not of their creation, but rather that of their deepest enemy's.

That same enemy that threw their ancestors' babies up in to the air, only to catch them on their wooden spikes, then made garlands of the severed infants' heads to place around the mother of the murdered children's neck, while she was forced to grind corn for the sadistic mohommedans, that so many of our own would assert to be our "panjabi brothers", in evidence of this irrelevant statistic.

Clowns.

[jashb]

Keep legal immigrants and real asylum seekers

Well, that's about 90% of war torn somalians (affectionately known as pirates ) set to be staying here in the UK then, making good ol' blighty their permanent home, on the back of hammertime's exquisitely formed advice.

Plus all of romania, bulgaria, poland, latvia...

And don't forget half of iraq, egypt, syria, libya...

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Hmmm. What did they say about being careful what you wish for?

No worries boyo. Top recommendation all the same lad.

I'm sure it's not intentional.

Still; You'd go down a treat among the softy liberals and islamist appeasers at the labour party conference.

[jashb]

And if I did leave who would keep an eye on child slavers like you? Peace.

There are more revelations in this thread than you can shake a stick at.

Possibly more in this one thread than you'd get in a whole week of daily star.

If hammertime's unexpected transformation into asylum-seeker-hugging-liberal was not enough, then how about LegalSingh being outed for child slavery.

What did I miss while I was away?!

Keep 'em coming lads.