joebloggs
10th June 2012, 20:32
a bit of common sense :rolleyes:
Those opposed to Ms May's plans – and especially to the one to introduce a financial threshold for would-be non-EU spouses – are right to point out that hard cases usually make bad law. While moves to ease the deportation of immigrants who are a proven danger to the public have merit, the idea that only the well-off should be able to import husbands or wives from outside the EU will strike most people as unfair.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-playing-politics-with-immigration-7834783.html
Those opposed to Ms May's plans – and especially to the one to introduce a financial threshold for would-be non-EU spouses – are right to point out that hard cases usually make bad law. While moves to ease the deportation of immigrants who are a proven danger to the public have merit, the idea that only the well-off should be able to import husbands or wives from outside the EU will strike most people as unfair.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-playing-politics-with-immigration-7834783.html