« Reading the Iraqi Insurgency | Main | Hi-Jacking, Asylum and Afghanistan »

May 02, 2006

Chilean immigrant faces deportation to Jamaica

Among the problems being faced by the UK government at the moment, the current mess surrounding the failure to deport convicted non-British criminals is making it horribly clear how arbitrary immigration policies are. The same government that persecutes those who come to the country as refugees has also completely failed to deport convicted criminals (some of whom are guilty of quite serious offenses).

I've been listening to BBC Radio 4's PM news this afternoon, and apparently a Chilean man (convicted of a serious assault in the UK) now faces deportation to Jamaica - seemingly because of a typo on the forms! 'Defending' Britain's borders is certainly having peculiar results at the moment.

Posted by jon_mendel at May 2, 2006 05:31 PM