RE: Right, Left and Somewhere in the middle
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Regardless of the outcome of the surgery, I think it was unprofessional for both. They should both be sacked. The immigration issue seems a separate thing unless there are requirements stipulated in the process. For example, in the USA, people can be deported if they become a problem for society. What that means will be up to the lawyers to argue about.
One way of viewing it is if I come over to visit your home and I start behaving badly, it would be your right to ask me to leave. If I refuse, you could have the police remove me for trespassing.
You might say, it's unfair because citizens can act poorly without getting deported. But in that case, they're in their home. They can't be deported.
As a guest, in my view, you have a higher obligation to behave yourself than your host does. The principle in that is that a mistreated guest can simply leave. Getting a guest to leave can be more challenging if they don't want to leave, in a legal sense.
Therein lies the biases I was talking about. There's nothing to suggest the person isn't a permanent resident in the UK and do you notice that while the nurse was also irresponsible, her ethnicity wasn't mentioned?
We can only speculate. Although the press is typically pro-immigration. They may have considered the nurse's story to be less interesting or less likely to cause outrage.
It's like that old saying that if a dog bites a man, it's not a story. But if a man bites a dog, you have headlines.
It's sensationalism. However, if a man bites a dog, he should face the consequence of the law of the land he's in. Now if the law says he should be deported then so be it but if it doesn't, then why is it being brought up?
Like I mentioned, I don't know if the UK has such rules. I can't argue out of ignorance.
Something that popped into my head is that perhaps some anger towards the doctor is warranted. He should be aware of the extra scrutiny immigrants face. He didn't consider the effect his actions would have on other immigrants. Your life is challenging already without people like the doctor creating chaos for other immigrants to carry.