November 16, 200718 yr Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are 'rude and unfriendly' Last updated at 11:13am on 16th November 2007 Comments (81) An illegal immigrant has demanded to be flown home after saying he was fed up with British people - because they are "rude and unfriendly". Speaking today, Mokhtar Tabet, 30 - who has been given a home, food and free travel around London - claims his local council has breached his human rights by moving him to a place he does not like. He was refused asylum in 2004 and is set to be deported. He said: "The council evicted me from my home in September and moved me to Streatham, which I don't like. "The new place is small, and the kitchen closes at 9pm, so I can't have anything to eat late at night. They have taken away my human rights." Croydon Council says it has bent over backwards to help Tabet, who fled Algeria in 2002. Scroll down for more ... Immigration issues: The Croydon immigration office A spokesman said: "Mr Tabet was accommodated in Norbury Crescent, with Croydon Council paying his rent, council tax and utility bills. "In July, his landlord gave him two months' notice to quit the premises, and the council offered him a flat in Anerley Road, which he refused citing its poor state of repair. "The necessary repairs were carried out and he again refused it. "He was told that refusal would amount to him making himself intentionally homeless and he would be placed in hostel-style accommodation. He agreed to this." Mr Tabet is entitled to return to Algeria at his own expense and admits that he "does not like it here". But he refuses to do so and says Britain will have to pay for his travel if it wants him to leave. He moaned: "I miss Algeria. The English people are not helpful, they are so unfriendly and rude. "I thought I had made friends in Croydon, but when I ask them for money they don't give me it, so I know they can't be my friends." Mr Tabet fled Algeria in 2002 after being arrested for refusing to give up his home so the army could monitor terrorist activity in his town. Released after 30 days' solitary confinement he fled to Britain, illegally entering the country on a flight from Tunisia, and sought asylum. He now receives £32 a week in vouchers from Croydon Council to buy food with while he awaits deportation. Unsatisfied at this, he griped: "Croydon Council only gives me food vouchers, they won't give me cash. I want the money. "I have nothing to buy new clothes with, I have to go to a refugee centre. But if there's not anything nice there, you leave with nothing. "I want the council to give me a bigger flat and money instead of vouchers." Mr Tabet suffers from diabetes, a retina disease and kidney failure and believes he should be allowed to stay in the country so he can continue to get free NHS care. He said: "The Home Office said I could afford the medicine back home, but I can't, I don't have a job." The council insists he has no grounds for complaint. The spokesman explained: "He is supported by the council by way of vouchers, in accordance with the law." Mr Tabet admits that since he was refused asylum he has "stayed and no one has said anything about it". But a spokesman from the Border and Immigration Agency insisted he can expect to be deported. He said: "The period between an individual being refused asylum and their removal will vary from case to case depending on individual circumstances. He is being processed through our returning scheme. "Individuals are free to apply for a new passport and return voluntarily at any time. It's a case of if he wants to return on his own dollar or ours."
November 16, 200718 yr If he doesn't like it in this country, then why doesn't he go to another country? Wait, is it because this is the only country stupid enough to give him a free bed, free food and free money?
November 16, 200718 yr If he doesn't like it in this country, then why doesn't he go to another country? Wait, is it because this is the only country stupid enough to give him a free bed, free food and free money? you are mistaken Spain has become as stupid country or even more than UK. And the Prime Minister saying that there are no inmigrants coming to Spanish coast, when this year have arrrived for first time boats with inmigrants to my city, many times. :dozey: liars!!! those politicians are making me hate politics. :( btw i thought the same as you, if he don't like the country he is free to go to other place.
November 16, 200718 yr You can afford to give out money as Spain gets quite a lot in EU handouts... ...and stop nicking our fish :P
November 16, 200718 yr You can afford to give out money as Spain gets quite a lot in EU handouts... ...and stop nicking our fish :P Spain gets money from EU... and they don't invest it properly :dozey: they just waste the money.. that's why many people don't work in some areas... :dozey: and we keep getting some money mainly thanks to Polish Prime Minister, because our Ministers now suck, stupid people, they don't go to important european meeting because they forgot it.. damn stupid, don't you have lots of secretaries? that the hell do they do? :angry: and other countries also gets fish from Spain, so well... i'm hating politicians right now, in fact see my status. :(
November 16, 200718 yr I used think the problem with immigrantion was not one, and i felt the media and dicussion against it was unhealthly... However since I have been living in this part of the world I can understand why people get upset. With the situation in the South of Spain and the Carnaries with people turning up in boats, its putting off people coming to visit the resorts, this basically generates income for the people that live there. In one respect itcould be been seen as in invasion and in some unfriendly waters these people would be shot out of the sea, its not there fault though its the fault of the people that own these ships and smuggle these people.
November 16, 200718 yr I used think the problem with immigrantion was not one, and i felt the media and dicussion against it was unhealthly... However since I have been living in this part of the world I can understand why people get upset. With the situation in the South of Spain and the Carnaries with people turning up in boats, its putting off people coming to visit the resorts, this basically generates income for the people that live there. In one respect itcould be been seen as in invasion and in some unfriendly waters these people would be shot out of the sea, its not there fault though its the fault of the people that own these ships and smuggle these people. i totally agree with you, in the south sometimes it feels like an invasion, they are everywhere and seem they never work, and make the system be more crowded that it is itself (long queues for everything) so the thing is to get it change, and stop them to keep coming like they have been doing, for themselves and for all us, but seems politicians aren't worried to make it change :( is sad because the inmigrants themselves are the less to blame, :( most them just want a better future for their families, and they spend all their fortune to get a place at those boats to come to Europe to work. I feel that at the end they are like modern slaves; going out of Africa to work to other continent, seems that things haven't changed there in all those centuries. :( and the worst part of it, is that now are themselves who give money for that, when in slavery was other people who directly bought them. that's really sad. :(
November 16, 200718 yr Author i totally agree with you, in the south sometimes it feels like an invasion, they are everywhere and seem they never work, and make the system be more crowded that it is itself (long queues for everything) so the thing is to get it change, and stop them to keep coming like they have been doing, for themselves and for all us, but seems politicians aren't worried to make it change :( is sad because the inmigrants themselves are the less to blame, :( most them just want a better future for their families, and they spend all their fortune to get a place at those boats to come to Europe to work. I feel that at the end they are like modern slaves; going out of Africa to work to other continent, seems that things haven't changed there in all those centuries. :( and the worst part of it, is that now are themselves who give money for that, when in slavery was other people who directly bought them. that's really sad. :( So are you suggesting it was better when they were real slaves??:confused:
November 16, 200718 yr So are you suggesting it was better when they were real slaves??:confused: i'm not suggestion it, i don't want people to be in slavery. :( i was just comparing the past and the present, seems that is almost the same there yet :( that's so sad. :cry:
November 16, 200718 yr I don't think stopping inmigration is a good idea... it helps people.. I'm agree with inmigration but just if the people who go to another country works hard and don't do illegal stuff or expecto to live for free Here in Chile, there's a lot of people from Peru... and well.. most of the chileans don't like it because they say that peruvians get all the job offers since their salaries are lower... I think everyone deserves a chance in another place.. because if you didn't born in a 1st world country or in a good place to live without corruption, wars or a country with extremely bad political organization is not your fault and if you want to get a better life quality you need to work for it...
November 16, 200718 yr I don't think stopping inmigration is a good idea... it helps people.. I'm agree with inmigration but just if the people who go to another country works hard and don't do illegal stuff or expecto to live for free Here in Chile, there's a lot of people from Peru... and well.. most of the chileans don't like it because they say that peruvians get all the job offers since their salaries are lower... I think everyone deserves a chance in another place.. because if you didn't born in a 1st world country or in a good place to live without corruption, wars or a country with extremely bad political organization is not your fault and if you want to get a better life quality you need to work for it... i didn't said that i want to stop inmigration, but it would be better for them that they do it in a different way i think, as i said they spend a forturne to try to get a better future, some them have been banned from Spain and taken to their contries and they come back agan and again. i think that for some of them would be better to say where are they from (most them even don't say where are they from), because may be come from a country in war, and they could get more help if they say where do they come from. is good that people try to get a better future and all that, but do it as they are doing :( is sad, do all that effory to be taken back to your country once you get there, and come illegaly and have almost no rights :( is very sad. :( and nobody seems to worry to make things change in their countries, and stop the corruption there :( there are not international organizations that can make it change? :( btw here have happened the same with salaries, but really they are getting jobs that people didn't want to do here since decades.
November 16, 200718 yr i'm not suggestion it, i don't want people to be in slavery. :( i was just comparing the past and the present, seems that is almost the same there yet :( that's so sad. :cry: I understand what you are saying ari, and it seems like modern day slavery... its very sad... in deed... Its a pity people are not allowed to work, but in saying that are there enough jobs to go around, at the moment I dont think so.
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