Motivations for emigration
May 7th 2007, 1:45 pm
#91
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Yep. A relative was telling me about someone he knows who was selling a car. The buyer turned up with a cheque from the local council. When he called them to query it he was told that sometimes it turns out to be the cheaper option if the have mobility issues. 
May 7th 2007, 1:46 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
We went through this money for car nonsense before. As it turned out one person with a disability got an allowance for a car; the government isn't giving out Rolls-Royces to everyone who can prove he arrived illegally.
May 7th 2007, 1:47 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Links please. Not "man in pub told me" but BBC, Guardian, Times, Independent, some credible source.
May 7th 2007, 1:47 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Proof? Sure... walk into any Birmingham or outer London suburb. FYI - my parents are Pakistani.
May 7th 2007, 1:53 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
My ex boyfriend was an asylum seeker from India (yes INDIA) posing as a Sri Lanken. surprisingly the British caught him and he fled to the USA. The Americans (surprisingly) believed his story and he is now sitting under palm trees in California with a Green Card in his hands.
May 7th 2007, 1:54 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
going to see "proof" is better then clicking on some website links that anyone could have put there.
May 7th 2007, 1:55 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
All i can say to that is :curse: :curse:
May 7th 2007, 1:56 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
My ex boyfriend was an asylum seeker from India (yes INDIA) posing as a Sri Lanken. surprisingly the British caught him and he fled to the USA. The Americans (surprisingly) believed his story and he is now sitting under palm trees in California with a Green Card in his hands.
May 7th 2007, 1:56 pm
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May 7th 2007, 1:56 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
hey you know what just because you dont have links in front of you does not mean its true im afraid.
May 7th 2007, 1:58 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
Oh no.... they believed him!! It was only until someone from India mailed his Indian passport to him and Royal Mail reported it, thinking it was odd that an Indian passport is being passed through the UK - They put two and two together and caught him. He is from South India. The language is the same and they look the same (Sri Lanken and Indian) he just had to change his accent to a Sri Lanken one.
May 7th 2007, 2:01 pm
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Re: Motivations for emigration
ah but no more rants of racism now though? i do not consider myself racist but do not like illegal's be they brown, white whatever impeding on a system that then is stretched and becomes unable to help those that it was intended to help. this is my personal opinion im afraid and i do not need a link to back it up. As Neelam said take a walk in these places and talk to real people.