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Originally Posted by jonbxx
However, the directive also states that immigrants must be self supporting and there is a 3 month time limit after which an immigrant, if they have not found a job, can be asked to leave the country.
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Providing you know where all the 600,000 or so are? So we can ask them to leave.
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Now, to put a bit of balance here, there is nothing to stop them just circling around and coming back but the clause is there.
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Exactly, so you spend milllions tracking them, deporting them and they just waltz back in and you can do nothing about it.
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In addition, any country can refuse admission based on 'public policy, public security or public health'. It's all a bit fluffy and these could be challenged but the mechanisms are there to prevent admission.
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pretty much unenforceable within the Schengen zone - which we're not it thankfully
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Belgium are pretty vigorous on using these rules. All EU migrants are required to register and the three month limit to find jobs is enforced. Unregistered migrants are deported.
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As I say pretty much unenforceable within Schengen
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Basically, we had the ability to 'chuck the riff raff out' but never exercised those rights
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Back to the previous comment, why spend millions registering, tracking and deporting EU nationals when they can just hop on the next train back and there's nothing we can do.