So these people entered the Country illegally (failure on the part of border security/patrol that they were able to do so to begin with) then were likely given really awful jobs for which they were likely paid very poorly. So Mr. Cameron's solution is to seize their money - and, do what with it, exactly?
You know, as someone who works in a job in the service industry, I work pretty damned hard. I know a whole lot of people who work really damned hard - and whether or not they were illegal immigrants, I would say that their pay - their earned money, is something that ought to be sacred and basically untouchable. Deportation is one thing - but to rob people of money that they have actually earned through hard work... and to do it in this way, is sickening.
Regardless of where this sort of thing is done... it's sickening.
You want fewer illegals coming in? There are ways to accomplish this - improved border security, more sane and reasonable pathways to citizenship.
One thing I have never understood - we have a whole lot of work in Most Countries that needs doing, such as volunteer work, whether it be helping out in hospitals, cleaning up streets, repairing old infrastructure... whatever. Why don't we simply build halfway houses where these folks can live (while providing simple necessities) - and give them the option to earn citizenship through a certain amount of volunteer work? That would prove their dedication and willingness to work, while offering them a home to live in - security and relative peace.
We'd get something out of it, they'd get something out of it. In the end, they could become citizens and seek out whatever jobs they wanted, and maybe there'd be less need to have all these debates and all of these absolutely moronic, despicable little moves by Cameron and his ilk.
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