Deporting foreign criminals: 20 years of failure

Deporting foreign criminals: 20 years of failure

SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE June 29, 2023 View in browser Deporting foreign criminals: 20 years of failure Under cover of the appeal court ruling on the government's Rwanda scheme, the Home Office has published a damning report about something else that it is bad at: deporting foreign criminals – even ones who want to go. There is a Twitter thread by Colin Yeo summarising the inspector's report itself, which is here.  The inability of the bureaucracy to get a grip of this task is long-standing. Charles Clarke resigned as home secretary in 2006 because he promised that every offender who left prison would be considered for deportation – not deported, just "considered" for it – and the Home Office couldn't even deliver that.  Quiz question What does the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution do? 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