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Woolas fuck off

another one of no borders | 18.11.2008 12:54 | Anti-racism | Migration

In an interview with the Guardian, Border and Immigration minister Phil Woolas has accused the many volunteers, NGO workers and human rights lawyers who work for asylum charities as "an industry with a vested interest". He even asserts that immigration lawyers are undermining the law and are "playing the system".

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/nov/18/immigration-policy-health-politics
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/18/immigration-policy-phil-woolas-racism

He makes the distinction between economic and 'genuine' migrants and defines the purpose of immigration policy as "reassuring the public" that the state is in control. Pie anyone?

another one of no borders