Last year, we reported on a cannabis production operation in the sleepy spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire. Now, it’s the turn of Nottinghamshire and like before, the individual involved has questionable immigration status.
In fact, there’s nothing questionable at all; Nam Tran, 21, is here illegally. Not content with breaking immigration law, he has since turned over a rented Wollaton property to the production of up to £100,000 worth of cannabis.
Nottinghamshire Police executed a warrant at the address in Whitemoss Close at around 8.50 am on July 23 after receiving information that a house there was being used to grow the class B drug.
Five rooms had been converted to the operation, with 196 plants in full bloom and numerous bags full of a previously harvested grow. The electricity had been bypassed, and a lighting and extraction unit had been put in place, indicating a sophisticated and professional enterprise.
Tran has been jailed for 16 months. The Home Office will decide whether or not to deport him after he is released partway through his sentence.
Defending her client, Serena Varatharajah said he was “still young,” had admitted what he had done in his police interview and pleaded guilty to the offence the day after the raid. She said: “This is his first time in custody, and he has been remanded since July 24. His background is that he lived in Vietnam and was threatened to become involved over a debt he incurred.
“He started a joint venture with others in Vietnam selling lorries and trailers to move goods and borrowed money from a loan shark. He has no family in the UK but wants to live a law-abiding life here, but this conviction will not put him in a strong position.”
Now, the 21-year-old’s alleged dream of living a law-abiding life in the UK and wanting to claim asylum is in the hands of the authorities. What isn’t clear is whether Tran has divulged the details of his accomplices, who presumably must exist given the scope of the operation.
Either way, the Home Office’s track record of deporting foreign criminals leaves a lot to be desired, so don’t hold your breath if, like us, you believe that Tran should sent back to Vietnam.
In conclusion, if you import foreign criminals, expect criminality. Even if we give Tran the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was not involved in any illicit activity in his home country, he has become a criminal by illegally entering our borders and should be treated as such.
There’s nothing controversial about that statement. It is, in fact, common sense. Our politicians have other priorities, however, and they don’t include securing borders and protecting the British people from criminals.
As with so many other failings in modern Britain, only the Homeland Party is serious about fixing this mess. We are the only party that would deport all migrants who commit crimes back to their country of origin without exception and use whatever resources necessary to end migration across the channel and by other routes.
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