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    missingtwick wrote:
    Half of Eastern Europe? Wow, you have no idea about numbers in those countries do you?

    Sorry, but I know some very hard working Eastern Europeans who are here living and working legally, as I know a fair few English people who have moved abroad and are now working legally, how dare they 'steal' other people's jobs in another country.

    From what I can gather most of the jobs that some of these people do are the jobs that most people in this country would think are below them.

    They come here for experience, to give themselves a better chance. Perhaps if we didn't pay English people to sit on their arse or give them a free house people would leave here to go and do menial jobs in other countries or feel instead that they should perhaps contribute to their country instead of draining it with no consequence to themselves.

    Fair enough, illegal immigrants should be dealt with, but don't immediately assume everyone foreign is here illegally.

    Recently visited Aushwitz, read a quote about the German nation being 'freed' from Jews etc. Some Herefordian's attitudes are all too similar towards other nations. It is shameful.
    I don't anybody who wants to stop all immigration, but I do know a lot of people who want it better controlled. Perhaps if we didn't have quite so many there would be a fewer more jobs available which in turn would mean less people being able to use the excuse there is no work while sat on their bums. I don't know if you realise but the UK's population increases by a city the size of Birmingham every 5 years, all of that increase is by immigrants. The UK already has the third highest population density (people per square-mile) in the world (England alone has the highest - 1016 people per square mile).
    It has nothing to do with being racist or fascist or xenophobic it is all to do with the ability of the UK and its resources to continue to support the highest population increases since records began."
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Illegal workers caught in Hereford

TWO people have been caught illegally working at a Hereford business.

Officers from the UK Border Agency swooped on Hereford Nails in Eign Gate last Thursday (Sep 13) evening.

A man and a woman, both Vietnamese nationals, were arrested after they were found to have no right to work in the UK. The business was also issued with a potential fine of up top £10,000 per illegal worker, which will have to be paid unless it can prove that it carried out proper pre-employment checks.

Action will now be taken to remove the illegal workers from the UK as soon as possible.

“Foreign nationals who are in this country illegally should be in no doubt that they will be found, arrested and removed from the UK,” said Alice Hopkins, from the UK Border Agency.

“Companies that think they can undercut competitors by employing illegal workers should be warned they will face heavy fines and possible prosecution.”

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