Should X Factor reject Gamu Nhengu be deported from the UK?

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Should X Factor reject Gamu Nhengu be deported from the UK?

Ends - 03/11/2010



Ever since she shot to fame on the X Factor, controversy has always surrounded bookies favourite to win Gamu Nhengu. From the auto tune claims on her voice to her shock exit at judges houses, her face has been splashed all over the papers.

Just days after leaving the X Factor the Zimbabwean's Mother, Nokutula, was found to have claimed £16,000 in state handouts which she was not entitled too. This meant that her recent application to extend her Visa was refused and has now lead to her whole family, including Gamu, being asked to leave the country voluntarily or face deportation.

Thousands of X Factor fans and even a government minister have banded together to fight the decision to deport Gamu. But yet one of the main aspects in the recent general election were that of immigration and benefit fraud.

Should a special case be made for Gamu or should she be deported like any other illegal immigrant that society generally views in such a negative light?

Debate!

[Samantha]

When you put it like that then yes she should be deported.

Her Mother was stealing other peoples tax credits as such, and no wonder the Government are cutting down! Some people may think 16,000 pound isn't a lot of money, but in my case it is! The money should have been spent on things that should have benefitted ever single citizen of the UK. Yes those citizens may be foreign and they may be in the UK illegally, but is that the point? No, not to me it isn't. The point is, that the money as wasted, it should have been used on people who were actually entitled to it.
I may come across strong, but when both your parents don't work, and your mothers disabled there is only so much you can take, some of that money could have helped many businesses, many services, everything, it could have prevented Post Offices and such from closing down, it could have helped prolong life etc etc. Yes, there are people who have got more than 16,000 pound, but it's not the point, well I suppose it is but only to an extent. Yes Gamu's mother isn't the only one to do it, but her daughter gamu went on tv, she knew what she was doing she was risking it all. And she failed dramatically.

If you let her stay in this country, then you must let everyone stay - you can't just say she can stay just because she had a good voice. I am not flaming her for her vocal abilities, I think she is a really good singer, but it turns personal when her mother is stealing money - money that could be taking food from a childs mouth.

If you put it in the prospect of that the money was stolen then yes she should be deported, she came to this country on a visa, it might be ok to steal overseas but it definitely isn't in the UK, it shall not be toerated. She should have abided by the countries rules. Yes, her mother probabl bought things with the money given, which sort of lessens the blow if you think about it, the things she bought just goes back to the government anyway.

Overall, she should be deported, but also, I think she should have been on X Factor, to blow everyone away!

[Special]

if her visa ran out - yes

just because she's been on t.v doesn't make her any different from other immigrants

it was also recently revealed that if she goes back she'll be shot yet she frequently goes on holidays to her home town

so yes, she should

[Samantha]

If she had have just told the truth in the first place, I'm sure the firing squad wouldn't be allegedly 'waiting for her and her family' as they breached Zimbabwe rules.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Surely she should have known years ago when her visa was up, she should have prepared for the worst after all.

[matt$]

deport her, xfactor or not its fraud.

[Samantha]

deport her, xfactor or not its fraud.

Definitely agreed. I'm sure if she said this sob story at the start she would still be in, X Factor is fixed imo anyway, she could have been a good recording artist maybe, but her Mother is at fault. She was maybe a bit young to understand when she first came to the UK, her Mother should have taught her not to steal, instead her mother does it. She wanted to help her mother, but now she cant, she will have to be deported, not because she poses as a risk, but it's not fair, someone could have their house, someone who needs it.
Agreed, X factor isn't open to fraud, and isnt open to people whose families break the law.

[flatface]

Definitely agreed. I'm sure if she said this sob story at the start she would still be in, X Factor is fixed imo anyway, she could have been a good recording artist maybe, but her Mother is at fault. She was maybe a bit young to understand when she first came to the UK, her Mother should have taught her not to steal, instead her mother does it. She wanted to help her mother, but now she cant, she will have to be deported, not because she poses as a risk, but it's not fair, someone could have their house, someone who needs it.
Agreed, X factor isn't open to fraud, and isnt open to people whose families break the law.

Just because her mother broke the law, doesn't mean she should face punishment too. Shayne Ward who won X Factor a few years ago has a father who is/was serving time in prison for raping a pensioner and his brother was arrested for murder, so you really cannot say that the X Factor isn't open to people whose families break the law...

Why should someone be punished for something they themselves didn't do?

[hairpins]

she needs 2 bi deported so eye neva have 2 here her sing eva agen plus she iz an ill eagle immagrant!!!!!!! !!!!!

[Samantha]

Just because her mother broke the law, doesn't mean she should face punishment too. Shayne Ward who won X Factor a few years ago has a father who is/was serving time in prison for raping a pensioner and his brother was arrested for murder, so you really cannot say that the X Factor isn't open to people whose families break the law...

Why should someone be punished for something they themselves didn't do?

It was her job to renew her visa what got turned down.
If she had gone to the people who renewed it before hand then it may have been different.
It was my opinion.

If her Mother broke the law, then she would suffer, which she is doing now, and will this will continue.
Her visa got turned down, didn't it? not sure. But she will have to go back, I know it's not her fault if her Mother did that, I didnt man to say something along the lines that she shouldnt have been on x factor because of that.
But I'm sure Gamu didnt need the x factor, so this controversy about her and cher lloyd should be over, cheryl picked someone at the end of the day - who cares if cher is extremely like a cheap version of cheryl.

Anyway, forget that paragraph, talent shouldn't go to waste, regardless of your past that's cmpletely right Josh!
But now, Gamu has to face the music, she must go back, maybe they may reconsider eventually, maybe she isn't in line of the firing squad. At the end of the day, she knew this day would come.

[Apple]

All illegal immigrants get sent home so why should she be treated any differently, her good voice...? :rolleyes:

It just makes it worse that they were claiming benefits when they shouldn't have been. And do they really think we are stupid enough to believe a firing squad will be waiting for them when they get home? That's like the most common excuse illegals give for them not to be sent back.