Selfish immigrants

A news story that stood out for me this cold grey London morning was the one about an illegal immigrant who has been caught out by the Home Office for overstaying her student visa and she is whining about it.

She recently won the honor of being the "Face of Tescos", (tescos is the big supermarket chain here) and with it came publicity and it looks like this led to her capture by the authorities.

Fatou Cham - the immigrant, was due to leave the UK in 2001 once her Visa expired. Instead of taking responsibility and going home to Gambia with her banking, economics and finance skills she "apparently" acquired at University, she applied to stay in the UK to settle and was immediately refused. This is standard practise, you cannot apply to settle in the UK from a student visa and the years accumulated from a student visa cannot go towards becoming a British citizen. Fairs fair. The Home Office isn't going to award citizenship on a special case basis to a supermarket worker.

So what does Fatou do? A year before her visa runs out she brings over her Mother and eldest child, she ignores the order to leave and then has TWO more children between then and 2009. The Gambia is not the richest country in Africa, nor is it as bad as many of the other states in the region. Yes I can understand she may want a better life for her children and her, but living in East London with 3 children and a badly paid checkout job isn't going to be enough to give her children a better life in the UK - and her case is not strong compared to other much more needy cases that arrive on the desks of the Home Office every day.

Her selfishness to her family has meant that they will all be uprooted and sent back and she is seeking sympathy? We already have enough illegal immigrants coming into the UK on a daily basis - and with her now becoming unemployed, we don't need more drain on the taxpayers. Story here.