When I started a job in Mannheim in 1984 I went to register at the local health service. I went to the counter which said something like surnames A to D and was told, no, I have to go to the counter marked “Gastarbeiter".
Manifestly - because he’s here and free to go wherever he wants and she’s stuck in Syria and probably can’t even leave the camp that she’s in.
This sounds harsh but should we care?
Well, if one has any humanity, yes. I’d suggest that we should care about all victims of child exploitation.
You should care very much. This woman was born in Britain, sexualy trafficked at the she of fifteen, passed from hand to hand giving birth to two children who subsequently died and has never been found guilty or even tried for any crime. Her case exposes the travesty of justice in the UK which is now to be extended to the abandonment of the right to trial by jury. Citizens are held in prison for up to two years while waiting trial with no recompense if found not guilty.
All of this together with secret trials, retrospective legislation and a lack of a written constitution defining a citizens rights if the reason why you should care very much.
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Ghastly place, if I remember correctly, BASF ville 
British passport?
British passport, yes. BASF is in Ludwigshafen, which is the other side of the Neckar river, but very close. It used to stink sometimes, but they told me that was the chocolate factory! Basically not an attractive town, no.
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0.48% of the UK population, as we have explained in other threads.
Not “huge” by any possible metric.
Indeed so, plus net migration is falling.
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It was pointed out - using ONS figures - that the figure you keep quoting - was wrong. 1 in 6 british citizens ‘born abroad’.
It seems the message is getting out that the UK is a spiteful xenophobic nation with no prospects.
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Which is not the same statistic as the recent “migrants” or “asylum seekers” or “refugees” that you seem so scared of.
Example: in just the business networking group that I attend in Surrey, which is about 30 people, there are several (probably the 1 in 6 that you quote) who are British citizens and (if it matters) are of white British heritage who were born overseas, in places such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, etc.
They are included in the ONS statistic you refer to.
People can be “born abroad” for all sorts of reasons.
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Just like Boris Johnson was. As are several MPs. Let’s deport them now 
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Why is that a problem? Surely it’s dodgy forriners the problem not British citizens?
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Are you talking about “trans men”?
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Too late. I’m known to the Gendarmes.
After hours drinking during my first stint as a resident. Maybe they have forgotten about it… 
Well it doesn’t seem to work that way in the USA. Slippery slopes…