UK borders move will not hit Islanders
Tuesday 15th June 2010, 2:59PM BST.
Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur.
NEW moves to strengthen UK borders against illegal immigrants will not affect passengers travelling between Jersey and the rest of Britain, according to Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur.
He made the statement after tabling a States proposition to sign up to the UK’s e-borders scheme, which the UK has designed to tighten border controls by recording information about all passengers travelling into the country.
Senator Le Sueur said that the scheme would only affect the air and sea carriers going between Jersey and the UK, not the passengers themselves.
The scheme would help prevent illegal immigrants and other people that the UK government saw as ‘undesirable’ getting into the country.
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What the report fails to tell you is that you will no longer be able to travel on your license. You will be treated as an International visitor hence having to queue up in the immigration line at Gatwick etc.
Also your personnel details like credit / debit / bank details will be handed over by the airlines not just your date of birth etc. All the data they have about you has to given to UK Border Control.
The EU have already stated that this may be illegal but YOUR Chief Minister is signing your right to free travel down the drain.
I for one have nothing to hide so when i travel to the US i know i am subject to investigation before i even leave Jersey! But Jersey has an agreement with the Crown for its public to have free movement within the UK. Another liberty taken away.
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I think you may be wrong Mark, but the online version does not go into the same depth as the article in todays paper.
“NEW moves to strengthen UK borders against illegal immigrants will not affect passengers travelling between Jersey and the rest of Britain.”
My understanding is that by joining the e-borders scheme we retain the privileges we currently enjoy. It is only if we remain outside we risk having to get our passports out.
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2. UK Student
Please see the following story explaining the full meaning. I dont think the Chief Minister will be able to pick and choose sections.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd347=x-347-260609
If you have nothing to hide then so be it but YOUR right to free travel to and from Jersey HAS been signed away.
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It appears the link does not work so…
Google ‘eborders UK’ ad see the first result from Privacy International.
http://www.privacyinternational.org
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Unfortunately this is the way of the world. I cannot see the problem. Next time you go through a UK airport organise for an iris scan you then go through a separate channel with no queues – what we did last week.
Perhaps Jersey needs better immigration control, judging by the number of undesirables we see in the paper being taken to court.
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Mark G, don’t worry, the UK continues to house suspected terrorists because these guys might be killed if sent back home ?!?!?!? I guess they don’t consider anyone undesirable.
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Folks,
This article aside, if you REALLY want to see an undesirable character, then check out the picture at the top!
I don’t know why I ever voted for him as our Chief Minister.
Oh that’s right, his cronies did and the boy Ozouf will swing the same stunt in the next secret ballot.
Our rights have already been eroded so much by this government that North Koreans won’t come here because they say it’s too oppressive a regime compared to home!
This is just another capitulation by a leader without a people’s mandate or support.
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How very nice to be able to assure the UK that no nasty people will be able to enter the UK via Jersey. Surely we should be taking measures to stop the same people getting into the island in the first place and not just acting as a back licking buffer. When the underisable are denied access to the UK they’ll end up being sent back here.Then what? Dandara “holding centres” at Les Mielles while the States decide what to do and call in consultants to find out how it all went wrong?
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Mark (3).
The article you refer to is from 2005, the Irish soon kicked up after that and a more recent article confirms that the present CTA arrangements will remain.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/16/eborders_irish_concession/
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Mark G
If you’re worried about governments capturing various personal data of yours I’d advise you emigrate to a isolated island somewhere where there’s no commerce or digital communication of any sort. There’s a very good chance the UK government and others (depending where you’ve travelled, emailed, phoned) already have this precious information of yours somewhere.
Jersey Bean #7
“Our rights have already been eroded so much by this government that North Koreans won’t come here because they say it’s too oppressive a regime compared to home!”
That statement (assuming it’s not a joke) is a perfect argument as to why we need immigrants in Jersey to dilute the local gene pool of such ignorance.
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