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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Am I allowed to nick £10 from your bank account each week because you don't notice it? Were you allowing me? No of course not.
I know from personal experience that illegal immigrants are being targetted and dealt with.
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The term 'allowed' can mean being given permission to do something, it can also mean being given the opportunity to do something, for example, by inaction or negligence. They are NOT the same thing.
In that situation of course I would not be allowing it in the sense of giving permission but the bank's lax security may well have allowed it to happen nonetheless. In credit card ID fraud it is rarely the victim's permission which allows the fraud - it's the bank systems which aren't robust enough to prevent it. There is no law allowing electoral fraud but I have just posted a thread about the lax procedures which ALLOW it to take place.
We all know that illegal immigrants are being dealt with but for a variety of reasons it will never be possible for ALL illegals to be identified or removed and hence the the circumstances will have 'allowed' them to remain at liberty.