Anonymous
Guest
I am very upset, I was going to go to that show.
http://lorinator.feminoise.com/stream-of-passion-offical-statement-re-canceled-uk-shows/
http://lorinator.feminoise.com/stream-of-passion-offical-statement-re-canceled-uk-shows/
Stream of Passion suffered a terrible blow on Friday afternoon when the band arrived at Calais, France to board the Ferry to England. The Mexican band members were instantly separated from the group, and each other, and were interrogated by British and French Police for four grueling hours. All because the British immigration service was convinced they were intending to take up illegal residence in England.
The immigration service asked Naomi, the band’s tour manager, to provide them with evidence to the contrary, and listed the types of documents required. And though Naomi jumped through every one of their newly found hoops, and repeatedly produced whatever documentation they demanded as proof, they could not be persuaded. Even with the help from the kind promotors of the concerts in England, various Embassy officials, and immigrant agents in Britain (who told the tour manager there shouldn’t have been any problem for them to enter the UK in the first place) there was no changing their minds. This eventually led to the ‘deportation’ of Marcela, Alejandro and Diana without any possibility for them to get to England to perform the shows.
It appears the Mexicans have fallen unfortunate victims of, as one British Immigration agent trying to help said: “the new British political flavor of the year: ‘we hate all immigrants’â€Â
The immigration service asked Naomi, the band’s tour manager, to provide them with evidence to the contrary, and listed the types of documents required. And though Naomi jumped through every one of their newly found hoops, and repeatedly produced whatever documentation they demanded as proof, they could not be persuaded. Even with the help from the kind promotors of the concerts in England, various Embassy officials, and immigrant agents in Britain (who told the tour manager there shouldn’t have been any problem for them to enter the UK in the first place) there was no changing their minds. This eventually led to the ‘deportation’ of Marcela, Alejandro and Diana without any possibility for them to get to England to perform the shows.
It appears the Mexicans have fallen unfortunate victims of, as one British Immigration agent trying to help said: “the new British political flavor of the year: ‘we hate all immigrants’â€Â
