While I am in favour of deporting criminals surely this is a trivial crime .
( growing cannabis plants )
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Hardly terrorism is it
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According to the article, his deportation has been deferred since the publication of the article.
Yes I see but why deport this man in the first place while hundreds of unknowns are coming in everyday by boat ?
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Probably because he is being âan example ofâ. So the government can be seen to be doing something 
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I would have thought there were plenty of seriously dangerous criminals that we could get shut of to do that .
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I despair of our Home Office, donât think itâs fit for purpose
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Decriminalise marijuana. So many problems would be solved overnight.
This manâs situation and what he said about people from Jamaica being targeted for deportation seems to tie in with comparisons made last year between the different nationalities of people who were deported under the UK Borders Act.
As noted in this article from The Guardian last year -
Under the UK Borders Act 2007, foreign nationals who are jailed for a single offence for at least 12 months will normally be considered for deportation on their release, with exceptions under human rights rules â for example, having children in the UK, and for people who have been trafficked.
A comparison of Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Home Office data between 2015 and 2020 showed that once people from European Economic Area countries were excluded, as they are not covered by the act, an average of 65% of overseas nationals jailed for at least 12 months were deported.
For Jamaican nationals, this proportion rose to 75%, however, despite the much greater likelihood of their having significant ties to the UK. For other former British colonies in the Caribbean, such as Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia, the rates were higher still.
The statistics also showed that 90% of Nigerian nationals were deported, and 76% of those from Ghana. For Albanians, the rate was 90%, and for Vietnamese nationals 84%.
Both sets of data were obtained under freedom of information laws. While the MoJ supplied the information within weeks, the Home Office refused, saying that to do so would be âlikely to prejudice diplomatic relations between the UK and a foreign governmentâ, and could hamper the operation of immigration controls.
The Guardian appealed to the Information Commissionerâs Office, which ruled against the Home Office, calling the departmentâs arguments âvagueâ and âgenericâ, and noting that no attempt had been made to substantiate them. âThe commissioner will not accept at face value assertions made by a public authority that, in her view, require a proper and fuller explanation,â the ruling stated.
Australia doesnât discriminate, get a one year gaol sentence and any foreign national resident is out on his/her ear even if they have lived here for most of their life. It has strained our relationship with the Kiwis no end, Jacinta has mentioned it because about 1500 Kiwis have been deported in the last 5 years.
There is even a Wikipedia page devoted to one man who was deported to Yugoslavia who didnât speak the language and ended up on the streets there - eventually he was returned after many protests
You are not alone in deporting your problems
whatâs changed after WW II winston churchill was responsible for encouraging the importation of various foreign entities including west indians to fuel the empty jobs and kick start the economy again. soon forgotten heh?
Itâs a bit over the top deporting him for that . He seems a decent hard working bloke . Iâd stand up for him if I could . There are immigrants coming in by the thousand yet he gets threatened with this .
Our government are way out of touch. Hope this case is dropped
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Nothing to do with it .
This man only came over in 2000
Four years for growing weed seems more like he had a weed Farm and growing to supply
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Well he did say he needed the extra money to make up for the âfinancial shortfallâ in his business, so yesâŚit wasnât just for his own use.
I suppose the judge/magistrate or whatever has many options available a light sentence wouldnât be sending a good message to others perhaps; a prison sentence costs the govt more money so deportation not only sends out a sound message but is also cost -effective??
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The nature of the immigrants from the West Indies has radically changed.
I have several West Indian friends from the old days in uk and the West Indians itself has also radically changed from those days