Blears campaign worker is an illegal
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The Sun - taken from a link from Guido Fawkes.. said:
EX-CABINET minister Hazel Blears dealt Labour another election blow last night as she admitted using an illegal immigrant on her campaign team.
Nigerian Rhoda Sulaimon has been knocking on doors alongside the MP in Salford, Gtr Manchester, to help defend a 7,945 majority.
But The Sun can reveal she is in Britain illegally and faces deportation.
Single mum Rhoda volunteered to work for Mrs Blears in the hope it might help her remain in Britain, it was claimed.
The revelation will heap fresh embarrassment on party chiefs already on the rack over their open-door immigration policy following Gordon Brown's Rochdale "bigot" jibe.
Last night a Labour campaign source said: "Rhoda has been working voluntarily for Hazel Blears in the hope it might help her case.
"She doesn't want to go back to Nigeria and is desperate to stay here. She's been helping out for weeks at the local campaign office and has been out with Hazel when she meets people and goes out leafleting."
Rhoda came to Britain on a student visa five years ago but overstayed after having her daughter, now four.
Home Office immigration officials served her notice on April 16 that she had 30 days to report for deportation - an order imposed only after all appeals have been exhausted.
But yesterday she was still working at Mrs Blears' Labour campaign office.
Last night the former Cabinet minister, who quit the Government last summer following the MPs' expenses scandal, said she had instructed Rhoda to leave.
She said: "I want to thank The Sun very much indeed for bringing this important matter to my attention. Well done to The Sun.
"I had absolutely no personal knowledge about the situation whatsoever and in fact I'd never met this woman until she walked off the street to volunteer to stuff a few envelopes about three weeks ago. I certainly do not, and never have, condoned illegal immigration.
"If you check my record in the various posts I've held, I've cracked down hard on immigration. In terms of this woman Rhoda, I have instructed her to leave the campaign, and she has gone." Last night Mrs Blears said she had informed the Border Agency after learning that the party worker should have left Britain years ago.
Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/n...
They never seem to learn....Nigerian Rhoda Sulaimon has been knocking on doors alongside the MP in Salford, Gtr Manchester, to help defend a 7,945 majority.
But The Sun can reveal she is in Britain illegally and faces deportation.
Single mum Rhoda volunteered to work for Mrs Blears in the hope it might help her remain in Britain, it was claimed.
The revelation will heap fresh embarrassment on party chiefs already on the rack over their open-door immigration policy following Gordon Brown's Rochdale "bigot" jibe.
Last night a Labour campaign source said: "Rhoda has been working voluntarily for Hazel Blears in the hope it might help her case.
"She doesn't want to go back to Nigeria and is desperate to stay here. She's been helping out for weeks at the local campaign office and has been out with Hazel when she meets people and goes out leafleting."
Rhoda came to Britain on a student visa five years ago but overstayed after having her daughter, now four.
Home Office immigration officials served her notice on April 16 that she had 30 days to report for deportation - an order imposed only after all appeals have been exhausted.
But yesterday she was still working at Mrs Blears' Labour campaign office.
Last night the former Cabinet minister, who quit the Government last summer following the MPs' expenses scandal, said she had instructed Rhoda to leave.
She said: "I want to thank The Sun very much indeed for bringing this important matter to my attention. Well done to The Sun.
"I had absolutely no personal knowledge about the situation whatsoever and in fact I'd never met this woman until she walked off the street to volunteer to stuff a few envelopes about three weeks ago. I certainly do not, and never have, condoned illegal immigration.
"If you check my record in the various posts I've held, I've cracked down hard on immigration. In terms of this woman Rhoda, I have instructed her to leave the campaign, and she has gone." Last night Mrs Blears said she had informed the Border Agency after learning that the party worker should have left Britain years ago.
Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/n...
In Labour's eyes there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant, to them everyone is welcome in this tiny country, and if you are on benefits then that's even better, as it gives them an excuse to "grow" the economy by a further xxx billion by taxing the private sector (who in Labour's eyes are NOT the economy) some more
Meanwhile down on the Dover front-line for immigration, Labour are axing staff! shouldn't they be increasing it by 1000%?.
Daily Mail link for all the 'uman rights apologists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270183/Ax...
Daily Mail link for all the 'uman rights apologists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270183/Ax...
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