UK - Ten Years to Deport Illegal Immigrants

Apparently the UK is taking their Illegal Immigration a bit more seriously than we are. Here in the U.S., our chief concern is apparently our 'reliance' on cheap labor and our need to be 'touchy feely' and not violate any illegal immigrant's rights. (I meant migrants, of course.)

An immigration minister has said it could take 10 years to deport all the illegal immigrants living in the UK.

On Wednesday Mr Blair said he believed the vast bulk of foreign prisoners should be deported whatever the dangers in their home nations.

Downing Street later said some prisoners could avoid deportation in "very few exceptional cases" such as a known threat to an individual.

He said: "In the vast bulk of cases, as was explained, there will be an automatic presumption now to deport - and the vast bulk of those people will be deported," he said. "Those people, in my view, should be deported irrespective of any claim that they have that the country to which they are going back may not be safe."

"Too much weight is being given to the possibility of someone suffering when they get home and too little weight is given to risk to British society," he said.

Anybody listening?

(Source: BBC)

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