Only 1.6% of Small Boat Migrants Would be Deported by Labour’s New ‘Crackdown’ – Guido Fawkes

Only 1.6% of Small Boat Migrants Would be Deported by Labour’s New ‘Crackdown’

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Labour’s extension of the “deport now, appeal later” scheme would only apply to 1.6% of small boat migrants and a tiny number of Foreign National Offenders. A potemkin move…

The government announced to much fanfare last night that the “scheme will be nearly trebled from eight countries to 23, with foreign nationals from those countries (listed below) now expected to be deported to their home countries before they can appeal against that decision.” This is in order to reduce the Foreign National Offender (FNO) prison population which it the highest it has ever been at 12%. The scheme was started by the Tories and had a few countries including Albania on it. Wait till you see the countries added: Angola, Australia, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Uganda and Zambia…

There will be a deterrent effect but anyone familiar with the FNO figures will know that these additions will make next to no impact to the existing prison population as of July: “The most common nationalities after British Nationals in prisons are Albanian (11% of the FNO prison population), Polish (7%), Romanian (7%), Irish (7%) and Lithuanian (3%).” The government naturally refuses to publish a more detailed breakdown…

The government says “foreign nationals who have had their human rights claim refused will be removed from the UK to their home country before they can appeal the decision.” The number of people crossing by small boat illegally since 2018 who would be covered by this extension number number 2,449 of a total 147,820. Guido makes that 1.66%…

Labour says it wants to add more countries to the scheme. It better hope that it does…