Trump Deports Hundreds of Criminals to Britain
Hundreds of convicted criminals are being deported to Britain under Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants and the UK is unprepared for the influx, campaigners have warned. The Telegraph has more.
Prisoner welfare campaigners have warned that UK Government agencies have done little to prepare for convicts and migrants being sent back, with many at risk of ending up homeless or turning to crime.
Figures obtained by the Telegraph have revealed that the number of people flown back to the UK by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials has doubled since Trump took office for the second time last year.
ICE data show that 212 people were deported to the UK from the US between Trump’s inauguration on January 20th and October 15th. That works out at an average of 5.5 a week – double the rate of 2.6 a week for the same period up to the end of Joe Biden’s term as president.
Of those deported to the UK since Trump took office, around half (53%) had no charges or convictions, 24% were convicted criminals, and 23% had criminal charges pending.
The majority had failed to obtain permission to stay or never applied for citizenship, only to be picked up and detained as part of enforcement operations against illegal migrants.
The figures for deportations, collated by Berkeley University’s deportation data project, are understood to include a significant proportion of people who were born in the UK but spent most of their childhood and adult life in the US without obtaining American citizenship.
Trump’s ICE crackdown is part of his pledge to ‘secure the border’, cut crime and make American cities safer, but it could have consequences in those countries to which convicted criminals and illegal migrants are returned.
The charity Prisoners Abroad said it began seeing a spike in deportations from the US last April, with many removed at short notice and given little opportunity to prepare for their arrival in Britain.
It warns that this leaves people even more vulnerable than usual, arriving late at night when many services are closed and into a system that is not expecting them – creating the potential for them to slip into a life of crime and reoffending.
Christopher Stacey, the Chief Executive of Prisoners Abroad, warned that Britain was far from prepared for the influx of deportees from the US.
He said: “What we see time and time again is that often statutory agencies haven’t thought about people coming back from prison overseas. I don’t think we are ready as a society.
“I don’t think we’re set up. I don’t even think we’re thinking about this. As a country we often think about deporting people away from this country, but that is happening in reverse daily.”
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Australia has been sending back paedophiles for years even if they were children when they moved over there.
If they’re not Oz citizens then they shouldn’t be Oz’ problem. It’s past time our government took a similar hard line. So what if you’ve been living here for decades? It just means you’ve been on the wrong side of the law for longer.
If you’re PNG then sod off. Where to? More your problem than ours.
I should have added that they denaturalised them first before sending them back to Britain. I don’t know whether they’ve also done that with other countries.
“I don’t think we’re set up for this”. Well, we seem to manage with 400 per day from all over Africa, the middle East and further. One can only imagine someone from USA will be able to read and speak English to a very high degree, will have skills that are needed and transferable, have knowledge and understand our customs, and above all, be employable.
Exactly what we should be doing. If you have no right or claim to be here, off you pop. And if you’re a criminal, doubly so.
Ah so we are not prepared for these people, but people can woft over from France all day everyday for years and that’s OK???
…and then have their wider family come live here too, otherwise, it’s against their human rights to be denied a family life and a lifetime of benefits, courtesy of the good, old taxpayers.
Question: how many of these people with no legal right to enter America had a legal right to enter Britain previously? Somehow it seems unlikely they’re all fraudulent accountants from Tunbridge Wells.
212?
Isn’t that the number that come in on boats between breakfast and lunch on a typical day?
We often think about deporting people away!! That’s about the extent of it, we never actually do it.
However; America has every right to deport illegals and Criminals back to their Country of origin, so we can’t get snippy when we have to take back our own home grown Crims. Its just a pity we haven’t deported any of the illegals, the students who have never travelled back, the Boris wave lot, that would reduce the Country population by millions and save the Country billions in benefits. But with the Huuman Rights Vermin Lawyers its never going to happen is it.
This is a pretty transparent attempt at anti-Trump-propaganda. People are required to obey the law, as much in the USA as over here and if they want to live in the USA, they have to do so legally.
Presumably they’ll go into 4 star hotels with 3 square meals, phone, doctor, benefits and all the rest.
Oh sorry they’re actually British so if course not.
“Christopher Stacey, the Chief Executive of Prisoners Abroad, warned that Britain was far from prepared for the influx of deportees from the US.”
What an extraordinary statement, we’ve been importing criminals by the million for the last thirty years. This dozy half-wit Stacey needs a boot up his arse along with his P45.
This is really only a matter of the US catching up with the arrears in tentionally allowed by dozy Joe. Of course we should ship out all foreign criminals and that would reduce pressure on prison places and save us money.
Those retrurned by the US or other countries for overstaying their visas should have their record marked – no passport for 10 years minimum and no benefits until they have worked here and paid tax for (say) 3 years.
…and no voting rights for a similar period.
Why should America host British criminals, any more than we should host them from (in no particular order):
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Sudan
Somalia
Syria
Albania
Nigeria
etc.
We should copy Trump and deport them. All of them, including the criminal migrants.
“Prisoner welfare campaigners have warned that UK Government agencies have done little to prepare for convicts and migrants being sent back, with many at risk of ending up homeless or turning to crime.”
But not Imran Ahmed. When he gets deported, he’ll land straight into a cushy job at the Tony Blair Institute to continue pRoTeCtInG oUr dEmOcRaCy by censoring everything.
If they’re our criminals we should have them back as long as we can send theirs back. I thought if you have allowed someone to legally enter your country any crimes committed in that country should be punished in that country.
Oh dear isn’t it just awful that a Politician actually does something instead of wringing his hands? —–According to many of my friends and family Trump is “an idiot”.
I ask them if they think Starmer, Reeves, Miliband and Lammy are “idiots” and they look at me like I am from Mars.