Migrants get up to £2000 on bankcard after prison sentences

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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.

See, I'm feeling a bit more positive under Labour rather than the years of Tories - starting to see more police out walking the streets, looking out for people, and a rise in doctors appointments.
So all this doom mongering isn't my experience.

I’d take getting ill anywhere back in France over running the gauntlet with hordes of the unwashed in an NHS A&E
Well, aren't you delightful. 🙄

Is the NHS amazing? Heath outcomes in the UK are not great, have you seen the stories today about Blackpool vic? The NHS needs drastic reform and it is utterly unsustainable in its current model and the additional population is putting additional strain on it. No political party has the balls to actually tackle the problem - perhaps reform will.

What's to stop them having a nice visit home and then using the £2000 to come straight back here (through illegal channels if they are on some kind of watchlist) to commit more crimes? We have a system that is built on naivety.

Because that would cost more than £2k and is dangerous...

Hth...

Ridiculous comment 🙄

Then return with another fake identity

I would feel utterly betrayed at that if I was a victim of their crime. However I can see the logical mindset- someone with some money to restart is less likely to commit crime instantly again.
It's sensible as part of rehabilitation.. and I don't care which country they're from/going to there will be vulnerable children and women there too.
However ideally their own country should be providing the money - and funding or facilitating the prison sentence really.

Really it is. Its stretched because we are now treating thousands of extra people with more complex conditions who decade's back would've already died.
It's far better than the US system which is flooded with money.

Mugs. OP, you are absolutely right.

Not from Albania or Romania, especially when the organised crime group you will be committing crimes for is facilitating your UK entry. In fact, even from North Africa the cost of paying people smugglers has gone down in the last couple of years due to the sheer numbers of people migrating. Some people are paying less than £150O to travel out of Libya.

Sex crimes are not crimes of financial acquisition so £2000 isn't going to protect any woman or child from them.

Why is the US always the comparator when talking about health? I live in Australia and have lived in European countries and the systems here and there are far superior to the NHS - yes there are some costs attached but as a PP said with what we pay in NI you could have far better access and choice to health services through a private provider. AND there is a safety net for those on the lowest incomes which doesn’t result in people not getting treatment. The NHS is a failing and flawed model which has outgrown what it was first expected to do.

The NHS is a failing and flawed model which has outgrown what it was first expected to do
It's been a lifeline for me this year, it's been brilliant.

As someone else said, it’s cheaper than having them here in prison.

Your OP mentions our own going cold and hungry, so do you think we should give people on benefits more benefits? (“Our own” of course, whatever that actually means)

Don't you want them.gone..Sounds like a good way of getting rid of them..

Well if the rich and corporations paid their way, we'd all be better off. Migrants are scapegoats for a party full of people who want to make a shed load of money out of the NHS and fossil fuels if they get in. Prople who vote for Reform.better find deep pockets to pay their health insurance when that lot get in. You must all.need your heads examining.

I thought you watched it? The guy they interviewed said they are only supposed to get it if they go quietly. They don’t get it if they’re abusive etc.

Private health care escalates. You think it's OK but you end up paying a fortune for every little extra. Yiu have no idea. Do you know what it's like in US. Most people here simply wouldn't get the treatment they need..

These are all criminals. Romania is their country.

This is disgusting. Not all Romanians are criminals. I've met a few lovely hard-working ones.

Glad I don't know you in real life.

One main party has been useless. That would be the Conservatives. Labour have increased the volume of people processed, and returned more people in the last year than the Conservatives did in the last six years.

The funny thing is that these statistics don't seem to make the headlines.

It's the facilitated voluntaey return scheme and has been going on for ages. There is also one for homeless foreign nationals. Ir is a LOT cheaper and easier than forced deportations or keeping thwm in the system. Thia is the sort of pramatic cheap incentive scheme those yelling about immigrstion issues want.

I do agree there are some very dodgy deals there. I am central to leaning left (used to be called liberal) but I think a PP had it nailed that if you are resident or citizen in the UK and you have been convicted of a serious crime (12 months plus). Then you relinquish all rights your residence in the UK and benefits. Yes it might cost the tax payers to get the criminals back home, but I surely do not agree to a 2k bankcard.

Do you have a source/link to the articles you're talking about?

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.