Posted on 10/06/2011 6:32:45 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
The illegal immigrant allowed to stay in Britain partly because he owned a cat was given a police caution for shoplifting, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Ranzo Avila, who was at the centre of a row among senior Tories, overstayed his student visa but was allowed to stay in Britain after an immigration judge ruled in his favour in 2008. He concluded that the Bolivian’s right to family life would be breached because he was in an established relationship — reinforced by the fact that the couple had bought a cat.
Immigration court records showed that he first came to the attention of officials after being arrested for shoplifting but not charged. But it emerged that Mr Avila admitted shoplifting from Debenhams in Oxford Street, London, in 2007 and received a police caution. It is understood that he took four items of clothing into a changing room and then tried to conceal them.
However, such an offence does not cross the threshold for when a foreign national would face deportation, which is someone who has been sentenced to at least a year in prison.
Mr Avila has not spoken since his case was thrust into the limelight in a row at the Conservative Party Conference over the use of human rights laws.
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The Brits have gotten very, very strange. Positively suicidal.
Simple solution. Send them both packing.
There has to be a cat burglar joke in this somewhere.
I like reading these stories from great Britain. It reinforces my belief that the average level of common sense in a Socialist state is inverse to the length of time it has been under socialism. I suspect the Brits will be going negative soon.
A cat a family member? I just can’t Bolivia!
Yeah, send him and the cat home together.
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