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| Sunday, 19 May 2002 |
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Lanka high on UK list of 'economic refugees' by Reggie Fernando our London Correspondent Sri Lanka is featured high on the list of countries from where 'bogus economic refugees', coming into Britain originate from. In an explosive attack on the thousands of illegal immigrants, presently here, and naming the countries from where they come, Lord Rooker the Minister for Immigration at the Home Office, said 'a huge majority of these asylum seekers are young men who have deserted their families for economic advantage.' The statement was made when the minister told the press of government plans to construct 15 refugee villages across the countryside of Britain which has already triggered fresh fears of racial tension. Meanwhile, a senior immigration official told the Sunday Observer that a large number of illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka are being held at detention camps awaiting decisions and even a larger number who have gone underground after being asked to leave the country are being hunted by Scotland Yard. |
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