14 DAY TRIAL // After a raid in London's football club, that was mainly occupied by Romanian gypsies, police officers decided to take a different approach to discourage immigration, by going straight to the root of the problem, to Romania's rural areas.
The majority of the homeless people living in London's Hendon Football Club were Romanians, from almost the same area of the country. This particular fact led the police to think that approaching them directly will be their best chance of controlling the situation, so they booked their flight for the Carpathian garden.
Police traveled to the Eastern European country in an attempt to discourage people from coming to Britain, unless they have means of supporting themselves that don't involve crimes. Like nothing did before, Scotland Yard's messengers warned Romanians that if they risk coming to the UK for black market jobs or illegal activities, they will be exploited and may become victims of all sorts of crimes.
“If you come to the UK without a named job to go to, then you're at really increased risk of being exploited or being the victim of perpetrator of crime. We're here to protect all the residents of London and that includes those people who come to London looking for work,” Adrian Usher, Chief Superintendent says, according to Daily News.
London has been struggling with immigration control for a while now, official figures show that the percentage of arrests is much higher in the case of immigrants than fellow nationals. Work restrictions imposed to Romanians and Bulgarians are set to be removed from January 1, and authorities fear that the incoming mass of immigrants will be even bigger in 2014.
In an attempt to prevent the problems, officials are trying every solution considered effective. Even if Romania is known to have the lowest criminality rate in the whole Europe, Romanians are the first suspects in crimes concerning immigrants in the UK, ahead those from Poland, Lithuania, India or Nigeria.
Even if a big part of the Romanians living in the UK are legally working there and are not even the smallest threat to England's well-being, they still face discrimination and stereotypes. When the decision of removing the work restrictions was taken, people started commenting and posting racist messages like “Brace yourselves...the Romanians are coming!”