The Synod, the governing body of the state religion, voted overwhelmingly in favour of an amnesty for those whose cases are still being decided on, and said all those who want to live here should be allowed to work.
It also said that a solution must be found to the “intolerable” situation of people who are refused leave to remain but cannot return to their home countries, and that children and families must no longer be detained in Immigration Removal Centres.
The Rev Ruth Worsley, a priest in the diocese of Southwell & Nottingham who tabled the motion on the subject, said: “The financial cost to our country, as well as the human cost which leaves people in limbo for years, not knowing what their future might hold, seems unconscionable.
“With the arrival of the credit crunch, the subsequent loss of jobs, the recent call for British jobs for British people, there is a danger that we become inward-looking and even xenophobic.
“But the Gospel tells us that we are not a tribal nation but a global family.”
It seems to me that those who are now gathering together to form ACNA were seeking asylum with the GS Primates. Maybe the AC will take this stance on asylum seriously and apply it to ACNA’s situation.
From [url=http://theopinionator.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/somalian-asylum.html ]here[/url]:
[blockquote] Foreign travel and immigration were also the concern of the UK’s goverment’s chief medical advisor:
“Increased foreign travel and rising immigration are bringing a host of dangerous tropical illnesses to the UK, the government’s chief medical advisor has warned. ……Professor Donaldson has also recommended action to tackle the re-emergence of TB, often in drug-resistant forms, in the UK, as well as the recent rise in the number of people becoming infected with HIV.” For the rest of this article go here.
Immigration initiated diseases are a concern, not only for the UK, but also the USA – see here. and undoubtedly other European countries that also are inundated with immigrants and asylum seekers -including many from Libya.[/blockquote]
Ah, the good ol’ Church of England: as the economy tanks and unemployment heads toward 3 million, building sites and market gardens are full of unregistered foreign workers, the prisons are one third Muslim, and untold numbers of foreign Muslim ‘dissidents’ occupy public housing on welfare, the C of E says: ‘Send us more!’