He was an actual engineer who just took a small job washing dishes to survive while waiting for his Master’s degree to start.
This entire case is so incredibly sad. It seems it’s always the decent hardworking people that get screwed over by the government.
BBC website-
“The family of a Colombian man who is believed to have killed himself at a Heathrow immigration removal centre say he begged for help and was willing to leave the UK.
Frank Ospina died within a month of being detained, while he was waiting to be deported. His family say he had no existing mental health problems.
The BBC has been investigating conditions inside immigration centres, at a time when the government is taking a harder line on migrants. We have also uncovered new details about an incident in which a group of detainees tried to kill themselves in the days following Frank’s death.”
So he came in on a student visa, worked illegally, got detained and killed himself.
Where exactly has the government done anything wrong?
Catching someone committing a crime?
Detaining them?
Not allowing a criminal to leave the country without punishment for the crime?
Not processing a criminal within 3 weeks?
Putting a criminal in a low security detention center where they could do this?
At what point does the criminal get any responsibility for their actions?
they wanted to get flown out, even offered to buy a flight ticket to remove themselves from the UK. It’s a complete failure on the Government’s part in processing detained illegal migrants in a speedy and efficient manner, creating unnecessary harms to the detained at unnecessary cost to the taxpayers.
I’m a bit lost on this one.
If the punishment for working here illegally (or breach of visa conditions, let’s say) is deportation, then why wasn’t he deported, especially when he was willing to leave?
It could be that he didn’t realise a short-term job like that would breach conditions (different countries have different rules). But if he was willing to leave, it doesn’t make sense to have kept him when breaching visa conditions results in deportation anyway, except unless he’s under investigation for other crimes that would result in a prison sentence?
We are a morally bankrupt country when people will justify this sort of thing simply because a man worked “illegally”
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He was an actual engineer who just took a small job washing dishes to survive while waiting for his Master’s degree to start.
This entire case is so incredibly sad. It seems it’s always the decent hardworking people that get screwed over by the government.
BBC website-
“The family of a Colombian man who is believed to have killed himself at a Heathrow immigration removal centre say he begged for help and was willing to leave the UK.
Frank Ospina died within a month of being detained, while he was waiting to be deported. His family say he had no existing mental health problems.
The BBC has been investigating conditions inside immigration centres, at a time when the government is taking a harder line on migrants. We have also uncovered new details about an incident in which a group of detainees tried to kill themselves in the days following Frank’s death.”
So he came in on a student visa, worked illegally, got detained and killed himself.
Where exactly has the government done anything wrong?
Catching someone committing a crime?
Detaining them?
Not allowing a criminal to leave the country without punishment for the crime?
Not processing a criminal within 3 weeks?
Putting a criminal in a low security detention center where they could do this?
At what point does the criminal get any responsibility for their actions?
they wanted to get flown out, even offered to buy a flight ticket to remove themselves from the UK. It’s a complete failure on the Government’s part in processing detained illegal migrants in a speedy and efficient manner, creating unnecessary harms to the detained at unnecessary cost to the taxpayers.
I’m a bit lost on this one.
If the punishment for working here illegally (or breach of visa conditions, let’s say) is deportation, then why wasn’t he deported, especially when he was willing to leave?
It could be that he didn’t realise a short-term job like that would breach conditions (different countries have different rules). But if he was willing to leave, it doesn’t make sense to have kept him when breaching visa conditions results in deportation anyway, except unless he’s under investigation for other crimes that would result in a prison sentence?
We are a morally bankrupt country when people will justify this sort of thing simply because a man worked “illegally”