Aria Going Home!
Source: westernspring.co.uk
In a case that exposes the ineffectiveness and ineptitude of Britain’s supposed immigration controls, it was reported yesterday in the Daily Telegraph that an Iranian migrant had recently walked into a police station in the Greater Manchester area and demanded to be deported – because he’d ‘had enough’ of Manchester.
It appears that Arash Aria, 25, complained of his loneliness and disillusionment in the city and of the rudeness and “violence” he had experienced from the people of Manchester. He was described as “agitated and angry” as he told officers he wanted to leave after living illegally in the city for a decade.
However when officers from Manchester’s city centre police station contacted the Home Office to check Mr Aria’s status, they found that while he had entered the UK illegally, he had been granted indefinite leave to remain as he had been here so long.
Having arrested Mr Aria on suspicion of unlawfully entering Britain the police had no option but to release him and send him on his way.
Mr Aria told The Telegraph he had been left frustrated and disappointed by local people’s rudeness and his failure to find work.
“The people of Manchester have not been welcoming,” he said.
“It’s words, violence, many things. I try to ignore people but I’m fed up now.
“I don’t get the respect I should here.
“People are not friendly here in Manchester. When they are rude to me, I don’t like it.
“Particularly in the last year it’s got really bad,” said Mr Aria.
“I try to be friendly and polite. But they just laugh at me because I am foreign and look at me strangely.”
He added: “I am not working right now. I used to work as a waiter and a barman but now people won’t give me shifts – for no reason.
“It’s affecting my head, my dreams and the way I think.
“I am on benefits but I don’t want that. I am in full health, I want to work.
“Everyone wants to work, to have a dream but I can’t achieve my dreams here.
“I want to try and do something with my life. I want to get a good job, save money and do something big – be somebody. “
Mr Aria said he was in limbo after sending documents to the Home Office, while his Iranian passport had expired.
“I want to go back to my city Shiraz, in south-west Iran. My aunt and my family will look after me there because my mother will stay here in England,” he said.
“I am just waiting for my passport to come through and then I will book my flights and start my life out there.”
Detective Sergeant David Henshall, who was on duty at the time of the incident and publicised the incident on Twitter, said Mr Aria began “shouting and screaming” at the police front desk.
“I got a call from the staff downstairs at the front desk who said he was being aggressive and throwing his bike around so I went down to help.
“He was very angry and just kept saying how much he hated Manchester.
“He didn’t look drunk – I didn’t smell any alcohol on him – he just seemed very angry.
“We tried to ask him what the catalyst was but he just kept saying he had been here 10 years and he hated it.
“Maybe he just wanted a free flight home, I’m just not sure.
“He didn’t look like he was sleeping rough. He was wearing nice clothes and came in with this expensive mountain bike which he kept throwing on the floor.”
The sergeant added: “He was arrested for immigration offences because he did enter the country illegally but they backtracked and said there was nothing that could be done because he had been in the country so long.” Apparently, the police found this incident so strangely amusing, they decided to release details of the matter in a series of ‘Tweets’ on their official Twitter account!
Furthermore, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in London said Mr Aria would be offered consular assistance to return to Iran if he got in touch, and stated that he may even be able to secure financial help with transport costs.
So, what does all this tell us?
It would appear that approximately ten years ago, Mr Aria and his mother, and possibly other undisclosed members of his immediate family, entered the UK illegally, and having managed to stay in this country as long as they have, they have been granted indefinite leave to remain.
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