Card checks on students have to be speeded up 5


Nigel Nelson, writing in the Sunday People, reports the Immigration Minister’s plans to use ID cards to track students’ movements:

The scheme means we will have a comprehensive database including fingerprints so we can be sure those who wish to come here are who they say they are. We can check them against international watch lists and criminal records.

It will give us the ability to monitor their movements in this country so we will know where they are. And when they are not where they are supposed to be.

I have already stopped hundreds of bogus business colleges acting as fronts for illegal immigration by insisting colleges register with the Home Office.

Students are most welcome to come here to study legitimately, but that is what they should be doing – nothing else.

That is why I am in favour of them having their IDs checked each day they arrive for lectures.

Most importantly ID cards will enable us to know when someone unexpectedly leaves this country and where they are going.

However, Mr Woolas claims:

This is not the first step to a Big Brother state.


5 thoughts on “Card checks on students have to be speeded up

  • Tom Welsh

    ‘However, Mr Woolas claims: This is not the first step to a Big Brother state’.

    It is by no means the first step. Many other steps have already been taken.

  • ID Card Fan

    Course it won’t be a first step as we’re already several steps into a Big Brother state.

  • Fred

    “It will give us the ability to monitor their movements in this country so we will know where they are. And when they are not where they are supposed to be.”

    Anyone got any idea HOW it will achieve that objective, without catching the rest of us in the trawl?

  • Martin

    Well I guess Mr Woolas can’t be accused of being a lier !, of course it’s not the first step to a big brother state, that happened ages ago!

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