More than 25,000 illegal immigrants a year stay in Britain due to Government inaction, official figures reveal. Thousands of enforcement cases and tip-offs are not followed up by the Home Office because they are not considered important enough, immigration officials have revealed.Their claims came after a Home Office memo was released ordering frontline immigration staff to stop deporting foreign students who are refused permission to stay in the UK once their visas run out.
In 2006, 28,540 foreign immigrants living in Britain – excluding asylum seekers – were refused permission to stay here by the Home Office. But in the same year only 12,830 were thrown out of the country or left voluntarily, leaving a backlog of almost 16,000.
Figures also reveal that 4,000 foreign prisoners complete their sentences each year without being deported, while the backlog of failed asylum seekers not sent home is growing by 6,000 each year.
The Home Office claims some cannot be sent home on human rights grounds because their home countries are too dangerous. But insiders insist that in most cases the Border and Immigration Agency’s lack of resources is to blame.
Across the country 1,500 immigration officers are tasked with catching and deporting the backlog of illegal immigrants, estimated at more than 600,000.
And thousands of those who are caught have to be released almost immediately because there is nowhere to lock them up.
John Tincey, of the Immigration Services Union, said: “The ‘harm agenda’ (the Home Office system for gauging how harmful it is for an illegal immigrant to stay in the country) gives directors a basis for concentrating on one area but not another.
“Immigration officers used to be allowed to weigh up tasks based on their experience and judgment. Now we have a series of targets to hit and boxes to tick.”
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Currently, I’m more worried about BNP spam from you on YA!
send them all back lets reclaim our country and put our people first for a change
Yes many do deserve a better life but what about the TB etc they may or may not bring in to the country putting everybody at risk what about the ones that have AIDS and not know it all they are going to do is pass it on. Some will not even have jabs done!!!
Why should you worry about other people living in the country, just because they’re different? If anything they should worry about being sent back to the hell hole they just escaped from!
New Year, same old anti immigration rant.
Yes I would say this is becoming a problem.
Although I wouldn’t say we should worry about it per se.
A lot of us are noticing that more and more people are posting questions to YA that are much too lengthy.
People need to ask questions, not sermonize.
Your question alone is 8 paragraphs long and it may start to become something we should worry about if you keep it up.
the answer to your question is- YES-