Attorney General sacked me by text.THE Attorney General's illegal immigrant illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) former housekeeper hit back yesterday - insisting the Government's top law officer had never asked her to produce a passport. Loloahi Tapui broke her silence to flatly contradict con·tra·dict v. con·tra·dict·ed, con·tra·dict·ing, con·tra·dicts v.tr. 1. To assert or express the opposite of (a statement). 2. To deny the statement of. See Synonyms at deny. Baroness Scotland of Asthal's assertion that all of the necessary papers had been checked prior to her employment. Ms Tapui, who had no right to work in the UK, was arrested last week and Lady Scotland fined pounds 5,000 for giving her a job. The housekeeper said yesterday that she had been paid just pounds 6 an hour - 27p more than the minimum wage - and was sacked by text message when the furore erupted. She claimed her job interview with Lady Scotland had lasted just 10 minutes and had not involved showing her passport. Ms Tapui told the Mail on Sunday: "She just said to me, 'do you want to start now?' And I said 'yes'." There were suggestions yesterday that the Tongan national might have had a second passport, possibly a fake. But she rejected that, insisting she had only one - complete with a fake, out-of-date visa she had bought from a Russian for pounds 180 after being refused the stamp by the Home Office. After issuing a further statement on Saturday maintaining that she checked all of the papers required of foreign workers foreign workers Those who work in a foreign country without initially intending to settle there and without the benefits of citizenship in the host country. Some are recruited to supplement the workforce of a host country for a limited term or to provide skills on a , Lady Scotland was lying low yesterday. |
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