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Migrants get up to £2000 on bankcard after prison sentences

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Ihatetomatoes · 24/09/2025 22:14

Just watched 47 migrants being deported, costing hundreds of thousands, private flights, huge number of security guards, the migrants then get given cash cards! Back to Romania after committing crimes here including murder, sexual offences, pedophiles with money to help them resettle in their own country.

ITV news - our own go hungry and cold.

We are total mugs here in the UK.

On a separate story migrants having taxis to appointments, free NHS. I mean we have to get to our own way.

Mugs. No wonder many people are unhappy. These are convicted criminals, being pandered to.

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nomas · 25/09/2025 10:53

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:44

My two careers have been in ESOL and working with victims of domestic violence.

Both these experiences made me starkly aware of the misogyny and abuse faced by Muslim women in Britain but their own communities.

And before we get the, “what about the abuse towards catholic women?”, well, we’re allowed to discuss that openly, aren’t we? There’s no fear of being sacked for expressing concern about them.

Who has been sacked for expressing genuine concern for Muslim women?

I can’t imagine there is any charity for Muslim women who wouldn’t welcome support.

Ime, charities are always crying out for volunteers.

Hardhaton1 · 25/09/2025 10:52

nomas · 25/09/2025 10:47

What’s Ludacris (sic, what’s he got to do with it?) is you trying to cause confusion and lies, just like Farage.

The point is Romanians (or other EU nationals who settled in the UK) don’t need to deliberately commit crimes and be jailed for a year and then be deported to get £2,000. There are much easier ways to make £2,000.

You’re not making any logical points whatsoever.
Nobody is suggesting that the £2000 is an incentive
However it is rewarding the wrong behaviour.
And it’s unnecessary.
They can just be booted out without any of the support that might potentially be offered to offenders in the UK on the basis that they have somewhat got us by the balls because we can’t kick them out.
However I do speak from experience that there is not £2000 available to/offered to UK offenders when they complete their entire sentences. Never mind half of them.

And …. What sort of English is, is you?

Bloozie · 25/09/2025 10:52

I love it when 'protecting the women' gets brought into the debate.

Shroedinger's Muslim Women - we don't want them here, we mustn't let asylum seekers bring them here if their claim is approved, we must protect them at all cost.

charliehungerford · 25/09/2025 10:52

Wingedharpy · 25/09/2025 03:09

There is no "might cost" about it - it will most definitely cost money to deport criminals and if you're only offering 50p as an incentive to leave voluntarily ie. not legally challenge, then you would have no takers.

But that’s the whole point, we shouldn’t need to incentivise people to leave, if they commit a relatively serious crime that results in a prison sentence they are deported. You lose all rights to remain here in these circumstances irrespective of what the ECHR say. This should be made VERY clear to people who come here wanting to settle, legally or otherwise. Your right to remain will be removed and you will be sent home. Sorry if it’s to a horrible country where you may come to harm, but you should have thought about that before you went out and broke our laws.

viques · 25/09/2025 10:50

It’s cheap at the price. Biometric details taken before they leave will ensure they can never come back to the UK.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:49

Ilfurfante · 25/09/2025 10:41

Evidence of this please?

You think Muslim women don’t suffer from misogyny from their own culture that professionals turn a blind eye to?

Ok

Imagine a white girl tell you that her parents have arranged for her to marry her cousin.

Imagine a white girl told you that she was not allowed to continue her education because her parents have arranged this marriage as soon as she is 18.

Imagine a white girl had to ask her husband’s permission to leave the house.

Would you think this was acceptable?

Why is it acceptable to treat Muslim women this way?

nomas · 25/09/2025 10:47

Hardhaton1 · 25/09/2025 09:52

Obviously, people are committing murder and rape for other reasons than monetary gain
I’m not sure how you would equate that with a cash in hand job or jobseeker allowance
Is one allowed to rape or murder on jobseeker? Does one add that to one’s job Search diary?
See how Ludacris the comparison is?

What’s Ludacris (sic, what’s he got to do with it?) is you trying to cause confusion and lies, just like Farage.

The point is Romanians (or other EU nationals who settled in the UK) don’t need to deliberately commit crimes and be jailed for a year and then be deported to get £2,000. There are much easier ways to make £2,000.

sashh · 25/09/2025 10:45

Ihatetomatoes · 24/09/2025 22:32

No, these are criminals, sentence served, deported back to their home after committing some pretty serious crimes here. We don't have to give them money, just sod off. Many needed several staff to get on planes, some 7 staff! Then out came the bank cards. When landing they looked like they were chuffed to be given cash.

The problem is that they are not 'served' they are still serving their sentence but the latter half of it is 'on licence'. That means housing them somewhere, usually in a bail hostel, allowing them to claim benefits and look for work usually with engagement from parole officers.

All of that costs far more than £2000.

Then if they break their licence rules they are sent back to prison at huge cost.

I would much rather them be kicked out of the country.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:44

MaturingCheeseball · 25/09/2025 10:40

I was indeed referring to incompatible views such as the treatment of women. We take our current situation as women for granted. If you look at the previous lives of women in Syria for example (60s, 70s) perhaps we should not be so complacent.

My two careers have been in ESOL and working with victims of domestic violence.

Both these experiences made me starkly aware of the misogyny and abuse faced by Muslim women in Britain but their own communities.

And before we get the, “what about the abuse towards catholic women?”, well, we’re allowed to discuss that openly, aren’t we? There’s no fear of being sacked for expressing concern about them.

nomas · 25/09/2025 10:42

snughugs · 25/09/2025 09:46

It 15% Muslims in London and growing at a rapid rate and spreading to other cities. I love a curry but I don’t particularly want to live in Pakistan. Crack on with this mentality you’ll soon see where it ends up and it won’t be your left leaning values being protected. You do realise it’s grown very quickly in a short time and will continue?

London is unique, it’s always been a melting pot. A similar percentage of Londoners are black.

I know rightos have been moaning about Muslims for decades but they are still only 5% of the population.

You’re not living in Pakistan, only 3% of Londoners are Pakistani. There are double the number of Indians in London.

Ilfurfante · 25/09/2025 10:41

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:38

Our laws don’t protect women and girls who are suffering from the misogynistic abusive aspects of their family’s Islamic culture.

We all turn a blind eye to them.

Evidence of this please?

GoodTimesNoodleSalad · 25/09/2025 10:40

Horserider5678 · 25/09/2025 09:54

Or as I like to put it there intellectually impaired! Or in my Mother’s Day would be called thick!

they’re

Disparaging others as intellectually impaired? 😄

MaturingCheeseball · 25/09/2025 10:40

I was indeed referring to incompatible views such as the treatment of women. We take our current situation as women for granted. If you look at the previous lives of women in Syria for example (60s, 70s) perhaps we should not be so complacent.

EasternStandard · 25/09/2025 10:38

Bloozie · 25/09/2025 09:47

Pre-Brexit, we could send people that arrived by boat back to the EU country they first landed in.

Then we voted to remove ourselves from the mechanic that allowed this.

So now we can't just 'send them back to France' if they arrived here by boat.

We do have a system that asks people to prove a minimum income to qualify for a Visa. It's not as high as other countries, because we need low-skilled migrant workers. If we 'closed the borders', our economy would fully tank. We have an ageing population and a declining birth rate, and immigration plugs the gap. Kill the old folk and ban contraception, and you have your easy solution.

I really, really REALLY wish people would engage their brains in the decisions that we made as a sovereign nation that led to the situation we are in. There isn't an easy answer, and if the OP is frustrated, it's because she would rather believe the lie that there is.

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The first line isn’t the case for the vast majority of people, it was a very low amount. The same for other EU countries who don’t just send people back to the place they first landed.

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:38

Ilfurfante · 25/09/2025 10:34

See my perception was that the poster was pointing to the degradation of certain areas of the country because of immigration. My point refers to the fact that life and communities have changed but that this is due to a wide variety of reasons, not in the least the rise of capitalism. However, it's easier to blame the immigrants.

There are certainly elements of islamic culture which do not align with my own. So do elements of the Catholic faith. Thankfully we do live in a county which separates state from religion and we have laws which protect us.

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Our laws don’t protect women and girls who are suffering from the misogynistic abusive aspects of their family’s Islamic culture.

We all turn a blind eye to them.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 25/09/2025 10:38

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/09/2025 10:31

They received it in exchange for agreeing not to appeal against their deportation, which can get bogged down in legal process for a very long time and cost tens of thousands more from the public purse.

There should be no appeal process for a violent criminal. Close that loophole

godmum56 · 25/09/2025 10:37

I did wonder with the 600 quid taxi whether it was something like getting a child to Great Ormond Street for specialist care? There was no back story given at all.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 25/09/2025 10:35

BananaBum · 25/09/2025 09:55

£2k not to fight deportation sounds like a pretty good deal to me. What would they be doing otherwise you have to ask? Using local resources, claiming benefits long term etc? Potentially committing more crime and then going back to prison? Surely that’s a much more expensive cost to our resources (both monetary and physical)

Not sure what you are expecting asylum seekers to do about getting to their care appointments. Die? Spend three days on a bus, unsure of where they are? Run off and work illegally? Source medication from the black market?

I think ANY foreign criminals should be deported on departure from prison, without the gift of 2k.
We have enough homegrown criminals as it is

Ilfurfante · 25/09/2025 10:34

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:26

I think that poster is pointing out the incompatibilities between Islamic countries’ culture and British culture.
I don’t think it’s shocking to say that many aspects of Islamic culture are incredibly misogynistic and a large number of Islamic countries have norms and values which we would not be happy to accept.

See my perception was that the poster was pointing to the degradation of certain areas of the country because of immigration. My point refers to the fact that life and communities have changed but that this is due to a wide variety of reasons, not in the least the rise of capitalism. However, it's easier to blame the immigrants.

There are certainly elements of islamic culture which do not align with my own. So do elements of the Catholic faith. Thankfully we do live in a county which separates state from religion and we have laws which protect us.

2dogsandabudgie · 25/09/2025 10:34

Bloozie · 25/09/2025 08:57

Agreed. But I'm not going to pee my pants over asylum seekers cooking food themselves if they want variety in their diets. The whole debate is getting ridiculous. We're angry with other humans for cooking now? HOW VERY DARE THEY.

I don't think the issue is the cooking itself, rather that it is a health and safety risk. Taping up fire alarms and using electricity near water is dangerous.

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/09/2025 10:31

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 25/09/2025 10:29

I agreed until the last bit about the vote for Farage the garage mouth.
If they were getting deported I do not understand the 2k gift

They received it in exchange for agreeing not to appeal against their deportation, which can get bogged down in legal process for a very long time and cost tens of thousands more from the public purse.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 25/09/2025 10:29

Wkanznjs · 24/09/2025 22:22

Not sure why us spending tax payers' money on criminals is "yawn". It's shocking when you consider the state of health, education and everything else in this country.

My politics are in the centre - and I would like to see the left and right collaborate rather than fight, but comments like "Hi Nige" and "Yawn" actually make me feel more inclined to vote Reform next time.

I agreed until the last bit about the vote for Farage the garage mouth.
If they were getting deported I do not understand the 2k gift

Omgblueskys · 25/09/2025 10:29

Bloozie · 25/09/2025 09:47

Pre-Brexit, we could send people that arrived by boat back to the EU country they first landed in.

Then we voted to remove ourselves from the mechanic that allowed this.

So now we can't just 'send them back to France' if they arrived here by boat.

We do have a system that asks people to prove a minimum income to qualify for a Visa. It's not as high as other countries, because we need low-skilled migrant workers. If we 'closed the borders', our economy would fully tank. We have an ageing population and a declining birth rate, and immigration plugs the gap. Kill the old folk and ban contraception, and you have your easy solution.

I really, really REALLY wish people would engage their brains in the decisions that we made as a sovereign nation that led to the situation we are in. There isn't an easy answer, and if the OP is frustrated, it's because she would rather believe the lie that there is.

Edited

My point is was trying to make was that any other country has a process for residency everyone but uk, this has nothing to do with Brexit, but more about progress, we don't have such progress,

As for France, if you come across without proper paperwork, and all the other stuff you need to take up residence, there for your returned back to France via boat as like all the 1000s that have already arrived here, not fly them back to there own country, that's up them and not the tax payers of the UK,

Puzzledandpissedoff · 25/09/2025 10:29

These were ALL convicted criminals, not voluntary ones

I think the "voluntary" bit hinges on the point that they've agreed to go rather than starting the process of enless appeals, @Ihatetomatoes - except that having beeen bribed too many will return for another go

Obviously there's got to be due process, but surely one answer is to change the access to so many appeals. It wouldn't appeal to the maany lawyers making a packet out of this, but would certainly save a great deal of money in the long run

Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim · 25/09/2025 10:26

Ilfurfante · 25/09/2025 10:23

My community changed significantly with the advent of giant supermarket chains and the internet.

I didn't realise that child marriage was legal in this country. Aware though certain factions in US want to lower the age of consent. Hopefully Nige doesn't want to introduce that here too. 🤞

I think that poster is pointing out the incompatibilities between Islamic countries’ culture and British culture.
I don’t think it’s shocking to say that many aspects of Islamic culture are incredibly misogynistic and a large number of Islamic countries have norms and values which we would not be happy to accept.