Sentences with phrase «removal targets»

He said victims of crime «were low - hanging fruit» amid the government's hostile environment policy, which included immigration removal targets.

She repeated her claim that she «wasn't aware of specific removal targets», adding: «I accept I should have been and I'm sorry that I wasn't.»

NEW: «Net Removal targets certainly do exist, and I'm somewhat bemused as to why the Home Secretary would say they do not exist» says ISU's Lucy Moreton to @Skynews - indeed she tells me the number - 8,337

The move follows the resignation last month of former Home Secretary Amber Rudd after she mistakenly claimed immigration removal targets did not exist.

«Net removal targets certainly do exist, and I'm somewhat bemused as to why the Home Secretary would say they do not exist,» Lucy Moreton told Sky News.

While May has apologised for the treatment of Windrush citizens, the government has sought to portray the resignation on Sunday of Amber Rudd as home secretary as a separate matter, prompted only by her lack of knowledge about removals targets.

The home secretary denies removals targets are currently being used by the Home Office, during a home affairs select committee questioning

Rudd said she had asked for more removals of illegal immigrants to take place, but was not aware that regional removal targets were in place.

Downing Street was forced to issue a statement late last night insisting Theresa May had full confidence in the embattled Home Secretary, who is under renewed pressure following a leaked Home Office memo which appears to contradict her claims not to have known about immigration removal targets in the department.

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said Ms Rudd was «carrying the can» Mrs May, while shadow home secretary Diane Abbott insisted she must answer questions in the Commons about her own knowledge of migrant removal targets.

«It is right that Government should set immigration and removal targets according to the mandate for which it was elected, but given that the liberty of the individual is at stake, proper scrutiny is essential.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd rejects calls to quit after being forced to admit the existence of immigration removal targets.

Windrush has shown that neither the system nor the private citizens co-opted to deliver it is capable of distinguishing between the two groups in the thirsty pursuit of removal targets.

In a series of late - night tweets, Rudd apologised for not being aware of documents, leaked to the Guardian, which set out immigration removal targets.

Mr Javid was appointed after Ms Rudd quit on Sunday evening, saying she «inadvertently» misled MPs over immigration removal targets.

The Opposition say their motion would include a request for information behind deportations, detentions and refusal of re-entry, the setting of deportation and removal targets and their effects on people's lives.

It was the Immigration Services Union's Lucy Moreton who told the Committee from the same seats net removal target - «for removals targets its immigration enforcement - separated into regions»... Yes

The contents of the letter, some of which were first reported by the Guardian as the pressure mounted on Rudd and May over the Windrush scandal, became even more relevant on Friday when she responded to another leaked memo by saying she was unaware of «specific removal targets».