Repatriation/deportation is a problem that we are finding in Spain nowadays with every arrival of illegal immigrants. They can't "repatriate" them because they do no state their country of origin, and the Moroccan authorities, once they have left Morocco, they don't admit them back in through legal channels.

For repatriation, you need two ends. One country that wants to deport them, and another country that wants to admit them as nationals.

Now, for England this poses the problem that most of the immigrants are not a new phenomenon. Most have been there for a couple of generations. No other country is going to admit them as nationals. Further, the levels of mixing between natives and immigrants is not low, and neither is their spring.

I remember seeing many English young women pulling a trolley with, most often, a half black baby and then another one from their hands. That was some 7 years ago, and it was normal to see it in the working class areas. I believe that most were single mothers. Then, among the middle-high class, mixing with types such as second generation Indians was not all that rare.

With such high rates of half-castes who have no other citizenship but the British, repatriation in international legal terms is not a choice.

Umh.. LOL. I was thinking that perhaps the solution may only lie in using the U.S. as a dump. I never thought that they might be of any use. Surprise, surprise.

Isn't that the result of "Britishism"? I observed that most immigrants from former British colonies never refered themselves as "English", but they did call themselves "British". That seemed to be widely accepted.

That, I believe, it is the result of clinging to ideas of imperialism which block the development of a proper nationalist idea. Under Britishism (imperialism), there is room for the acceptance of peoples who have English as their language and culture.