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Friday, December 21, 2007

Foreign criminals 'won't be deported'


Foreign criminals 'won't be deported'

The Border and Immigration Agency has reached a decision that it is not interested "in deporting foreign national prisoners serving sentences of under a year".

This news may embarrass Gordon Brown who has stated that all those foreigners who commit offences will be deported.

I am more interested in learning the reasoning behind this decision. The article does not offer any enlightenment. Personally, I think it is difficult to justify deportations on the grounds of such lenient sentences. However, I suspect that the decision is based upon some EU legislation similar to that used in the Learco Chindamo case.

2 comments:

James Higham said...

I'd say you're right about this latter.

Anonymous said...

Nice photo, it makes it look like they can get a whole prison block into an underground train carriage.

This is probably why they are so overcrowded...