Luna
01-09-2005, 15:18
Big Brother contestant Makosi Musambasi, who is threatened with deportation, has said: "Terrorists are treated better than me."
The 24-year-old from Zimbabwe said her working visa had been curtailed after she left her job as a cardiac nurse to appear on the Channel 4 reality show.
"A lot of illegal immigrants are paid to stay in this country and are fed by taxpayers," she said.
"I am here paying my taxes and working but I'm treated like a thug."
'Felt like criminal'
Ms Musambasi was stopped by police on Monday over a driving matter, when immigration officials questioned her about her visa.
"Terrorists don't even go through that," she said.
"The immigration person took four hours to come out. They took my fingerprints and a DNA swab from inside my cheek. I felt like a criminal. It was not nice at all."
Ms Musambasi said she hoped to return to nursing but said she could not go back yet because she had "a lot of magazine and TV things coming up" and that she could "a lot for charity".
I couldn't walk back onto a ward now - instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks
Makosi Musambasi
"After that I can go back to my old life," she said, speaking at a promotional event in London.
"But I couldn't walk back onto a ward now. Instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks."
Ms Musambasi came third in the reality show behind Anthony Hutton and Eugene Sully earlier this month.
Her sister, Veronica, has said that Ms Musambasi entered the show in the hope of flying their mother to South Africa for a life-saving operation on a tumour behind her eye.
The 24-year-old from Zimbabwe said her working visa had been curtailed after she left her job as a cardiac nurse to appear on the Channel 4 reality show.
"A lot of illegal immigrants are paid to stay in this country and are fed by taxpayers," she said.
"I am here paying my taxes and working but I'm treated like a thug."
'Felt like criminal'
Ms Musambasi was stopped by police on Monday over a driving matter, when immigration officials questioned her about her visa.
"Terrorists don't even go through that," she said.
"The immigration person took four hours to come out. They took my fingerprints and a DNA swab from inside my cheek. I felt like a criminal. It was not nice at all."
Ms Musambasi said she hoped to return to nursing but said she could not go back yet because she had "a lot of magazine and TV things coming up" and that she could "a lot for charity".
I couldn't walk back onto a ward now - instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks
Makosi Musambasi
"After that I can go back to my old life," she said, speaking at a promotional event in London.
"But I couldn't walk back onto a ward now. Instead of reversing heart attacks, I would cause heart attacks."
Ms Musambasi came third in the reality show behind Anthony Hutton and Eugene Sully earlier this month.
Her sister, Veronica, has said that Ms Musambasi entered the show in the hope of flying their mother to South Africa for a life-saving operation on a tumour behind her eye.