Yet Another Reminder of the Security "Cost" of Illegal Immigration
By Bill West
On June 15, the New Zealand Herald ran a story about an Algerian “refugee” the authorities there have been dealing with since he arrived in that country with a false passport in December 2002 and then requested refugee status. After spending nearly two years in prison, Ahmed Zaoui was released on bail after a hearing before the New Zealand Supreme Court. Zaoui, according to the article, is being investigated by New Zealand government authorities for security concerns relative to his potential immigration status and the cost of his case to the government has been estimated to be at least several million dollars, and the case has yet to be resolved.
This is an interesting example of a liberal democracy spending many years and huge sums of taxpayer dollars on a single immigration case linked to possible national security issues. An interesting case as we are reminded that the US is on the verge of admitting up to 25,000 (and possibly more) Iraqi “refugees” in response to UN pressure...and doing so with an immigration bureaucracy that is hardly capable of dealing with existing workloads.
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