Sentences with phrase «failed asylum seekers»

The number of failed asylum seekers removed from the country has fallen, the latest figures show.

The consultation on the change was published yesterday, alongside financial figures which have previously never been shown to the public showing that failed asylum seekers cost the public purse # 73 million.

Immigration Enforcement, an agency of the Home Office, is responsible for tracking down illegal migrants, including those who have sneaked into Britain in the backs of lorries, arrived on visas but never went home and failed asylum seekers who have avoided deportation.

Slashing support for failed asylum seekers shows the moral depths this government is operating in

«At this rate it will take decades to remove the backlog, by which time we will have another back log since the government is also failing to meet its target of removing more failed asylum seekers than arrive.»

New figures released today show the government has met its target on removing failed asylum seekers for the past two months, with almost three - quarters of cases now decided in eight weeks, compared to 22 weeks in 1997.

It has been estimated that there are over a quarter of a million failed asylum seekers remaining in the UK.

>> > Charles Clarke will unveil proposals designed to screen out unwanted economic migrants and prevent failed asylum seekers from remaining in Britain.

Like thousands of other failed asylum seekers, Samar is also not sure what awaits her when she returns to her native Iran.

The home secretary has said the number of failed asylum seekers whose deportation flights are postponed is almost twice as many as previously believed.

Many failed asylum seekers are unable to return home, either because it is a war zone or because they lack travel documents, leaving them potentially trapped in the UK with no financial support, no right to work and no accommodation.

The government's treatment of failed asylum seekers goes against «human decency» and needs to be reformed, a report published today has argued.

Another change of policy which smacks of too much Tory influence, is the announcement last week that a ban on sending more than 10,000 failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe is to be lifted.

Opposition politicians have responded to the escape by calling on the government to review its system of detaining foreign prisoners alongside failed asylum seekers.

The government has been urged to review its policy of housing failed asylum seekers with foreign prisoners in the wake of the latest immigration mishap.

Home Office officials are being rewarded with shopping vouchers for helping to ensure failed asylum seekers lose their attempt to stay in the country, new documents reveal.

Failed asylum seeker families will have their benefits cut, plunging their children into hunger and destitution.

A Downing Street official said the plans for new staff would speed up the process of returning failed asylum seekers, and would be a deterrent from those attempting the dangerous journey.

In April 2006 Bacon's questioning of Home Office officials concerning the fate of failed asylum seekers released from prison [12] led to a major embarrassment for the Labour administration in the run - up to the local elections the following month, and the dismissal of Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary.

This, however, had no immediate impact upon Southwark's provision of accommodation because the support restrictions imposed upon failed asylum seekers by Sch 3 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002) do not apply to children.

She has also worked at Refugee Action as a caseworker for failed asylum seekers.

It also says more failed asylum seekers were deported in 2006 than ever before.

The use of dawn raids to forcibly remove failed asylum seekers from their homes will continue in Scotland, the immigration minister has said.

Last month, home secretary John Reid announced a complete overhaul of the immigration department, promising to tackle the backlog of failed asylum seekers in the UK and doubling the resources to track down illegal immigrants.

A failed asylum seeker receives nothing.

You can be a failed asylum seeker, of course, and indeed that is the word the press have opted for as a second - best option.

Of 198 healthcare workers asked, eight in ten could not confidently define the difference between refugees, asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers.

The majority of the failed asylum seekers still in the country are thought to be legitimately unable to return home.

Failed asylum seekers may be removed from Canada while their review is still pending before the Court.

In fact, the main inflow into irregular status in the 2000s results from non-removal of failed asylum seekers and visa overstayers.

Mr Blair responded with his usual statement about how overall crime had fallen since Labour came to power in 1997, the number of failed asylum seekers being removed had doubled and tougher sentences had been brought in for serious offenders.

The chief executive, who earns # 825,000, has previously been in deep water at the company after a failed asylum seeker, Jimmy Mubenga, died following abuse at the hands of G4S private security staff.

But failed asylum seekers would be returned to their home countries immediately.

Speaking later, he said the government was removing about 25,000 illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers every year, but given the large numbers of people thought to be in Britain illegally, clearing the backlog would inevitably take time.

Never mind that 30 % of rejected asylum claims are overturned on appeal, suggesting a third of failed asylum seekers are genuine.

In response, detainees — the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime — waved and shared messages of solidarity.

Control orders Section 44 stop and search powers The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and its use by local authorities Deportation with assurances that failed asylum seekers will not be mistreated Organisations that promote hatred and violence 28 - day pre-charge detention

During a recording of Sunday Politics West, the Gloucestershire MP and Immigration Minister Mark Harper told one failed asylum seeker it was time to return to his own country.