Fake death threat letters produced by the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants. The Telegraph has the story.
A Telegraph investigation can reveal how corrupt officials in Afghanistan produce government letters threatening to kill asylum seekers. The letters are then used as evidence in asylum applications.
To demonstrate how easily such documents can be obtained, an undercover Telegraph reporter paid Taliban officials £40 to produce three fake letters from different regional offices on official headed paper, signed by local administrators.
The letters can be published in full, but have been redacted to protect sources.
They include warnings that the Taliban will “deliver justice upon you” — shorthand for execution — for co-operating with the “evil government of England”.
One letter says: “The mujahideen monitor all your activity on social media and will deliver justice when they see you. God will be pleased and you will be freed from this shameful life.”
The practice of purchasing fake letters raises fresh questions about the integrity of the asylum system and whether genuine refugees are being disadvantaged by forgeries.
Multiple migrants housed in Home Office hotels and Taliban officials in Afghanistan told the Telegraph that the use of fake letters is widespread.
In one case, a rejected asylum seeker said they submitted a fake letter in an appeal as evidence of facing danger in Afghanistan.
The new application was then approved, although it is not clear if the letter was the only piece of evidence that judges took into account.
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And could it be that all these “refugees” are being sent here as sleeper cells? Asking for a friend.
It’s a cliche to say it, but you could not make this s**t up.
But perhaps the worst element of this is that clearly, even the god forsaken Taliban are aware of the utter farce of the Home Office’s management of immigration.
There are probably unknown tribes in the deepest darkest Amazon jungle who are aware of the pathetic job our Home Office civil servants are doing to make immigration fair and economically manageable.
GDP go up, for Afghanistan of course, all those lovely remittances…
I think it is very enterprising.
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Duping the Home Office? Not much of a challenge there.
Dupe? Nah. I don’t believe it. They probably told the ‘asylum seekers’ what they needed to get in.
So true but why are we so gullible?
That photo reinforces my considered view that The Turban is one of the Stupidest Fashion Inventions of Mankind, along with Stiletto Heels.
This is staggering information— well done to the Telegraph for good old-fashioned investigative journalism exposing this massive fraud, and thanks to the DS for featuring it.
As former Queen’s Chaplain Reverend Gavin Ashenden once said,
“The whole asylum system is POLITICAL DECEIT.”
A Total Five-Year UK Ban on all refugee/asylum seekers is desperately needed, renewable as necessary, and easy to declare and implement.
I very much doubt the Calais Yacht Club members require anything as imposing as a death threat letter in order to convince Border Force of their legitimacy as “asylum seekers.” Anyway don’t they dump any and all papers before being collected by the RNLI Taxi service?
Couldn’t they also not supply electricity to the UK and get constraint payments? The not-supplying-electricity business is very lucrative.
Of course they do
Authoritarians and technocrats like to think they can control everything by decree, but incentives always win out